Citation

Avis SP. Am. J. Forensic Med. Pathol. 1999; 20(3): 243-246.

Affiliation

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Province of Newfoundland, and Department of Laboratory Medicine (Forensic), Health Science Centre, St. John's, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10507791

Abstract

Dog bite-related fatalities, although unusual, accounted for 304 deaths in the United States between 1979 and 1996 and 6 fatalities in Canada between 1994 and 1996. Fatal dog pack attacks and attacks involving human predation are less common. The following describes a dog pack attack on a family of four involving 2 fatalities with predation of the victims. Factors previously identified that contribute to pack attacks and predation, including prior group hunting, social feeding, territorial defense, lack of human interaction, and prey stimuli, are discussed.

Language: en