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To simplify it: dogs are not capable of understanding our frame of reference. To have a successful relationship with the dog, you have to learn to view it as the dog does. When we think of applying our moral and ethical standards to the relationship, we have already failed. The point I have made, time and again, is that most failures in a relationship between a human and dog originate with the human. It's why I think that most people should not "own" dogs and largely why we continue to have problems with them. Most people have no problems, in spite of themselves, as the dog is fully focused on trying to make the relationship successful. Sadly, I would say that most of the incidents involving a dog would not occur with a more knowledgeable human involved. I have no idea what happened in this particular case, I suspect the investigation is ongoing, if it is not a foregone conclusion. I can tell you that the above photograph of the woman with the dog does not show a happy dog. I also don't know if it is one of the dogs involved, as they were described as being between 100 and 125 pounds, and that dog is nowhere near that.
Of course, that also involves the media, which probably gets at least half of every story wrong.
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