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A California mother is recovering from more than 150 lacerations and puncture wounds across her body after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs while out for a walk. Dorrie Reyes was walking along a levee in Stockton on April 23 when she was surrounded by seven to nine stray dogs, including German shepherds and mixed breeds, according to a GoFundMe organized by her family. Just moments before the scene turned violent, Reyes filmed the dogs on her phone while shouting for help. As the animals mauled her, a nearby couple heard her cries and rushed in, managing to drive the dogs away, her son Ronnie said. “The good Samaritan was, as far as I know, afraid of dogs, but he still came out to help my mom,” Ronnie Reyes told 9News, wiping away tears, adding his family is thankful to the couple because his mother’s injuries “could’ve been much worse.” Dorrie Reyes was rushed to the hospital with 150 to 200 lacerations and puncture wounds across her arms, legs, face, head and neck. She spent six hours in the operating theater and lost a significant amount of blood, according to the GoFundMe.
I’m amazed at how rarely we hear of instances like this; I’m glad it didn’t turn deadly. I hope the gofundme covers the medical bills; the alternative is suing the city for not preemptively taking care of the problem dogs.
I’ve never seen truly stray dogs (not just lost) in the US. It’s so foreign to me when I see them in every other country I visit
Yeah same here… Lived here my whole life and I’ve never seen a single stray dog.
What he fuck is going on in Stockton right now?
California has a lot of coyotes
My ex got a “rescue dog” from a humane society. She got him and it was rough but she said she was making progress. The first time I met the dog, I knew something was off. That dog was not meant to be a family dog. It was clearly either pure bred or close to it chocolate lab. But that dog didn’t have a lab personality. I told her to ask more about the dogs background and it turned out that they didn’t know, other than it was found by the river in the city and it wasn’t tagged. That raised a bunch of red flags, especially for a lab that wasn’t underweight. We broke up and I later found out she gave up and the dog went to a farm. This was in college lol so it didn’t “go to the farm”. I’m also leaving a lot out of that story but that dog was a nightmare.
TL;DR scary stray dogs absolutely exist in the US. Even in the middle of the country, and even in dogs that you wouldn’t expect based on breed.
I’m not saying they don’t exist, just that in all my travels across the US, rural metro and suburban, I’ve never see multiple stray dogs. It’s rare I see a singular stray dog, at that. Not like other countries where I see them right outside the airport. All to say this story sounds crazy to me, coming out of regular California. But maybe I’ve just never been there to see it