Oklahoma Woman Killed by Pack of Seven Small Dogs

I'm not surprised something like this can happen. I remember an unsettling incident in Tucson in 2012. My friend was showing me her 5 dogs in her back yard, when the phone rang. She went inside to take the call and closed her sliding glass door, leaving me alone outside with the 5 unfamiliar, moderately-sized dogs.

The dogs began circling me and muscling me all around, probing for weakness. I moved slowly, and tried to avoid getting pushed over, potentially setting off a pack attack. Locked in the dogs' embrace, I couldn't manage to get over to the sliding glass door.

The phone call took forever. Eventually my host came back outside, and unaware there was any issue at all, distracted the dogs from their 'play.'

ARDMORE, Okla. -- Authorities are investigating whether criminal charges should be filed after an Oklahoma woman was mauled to death by seven small dogs, most of them possibly a dachshund-terrier mix.

Carter County Sheriff Chris Bryant says 52-year-old Tracy Garcia was killed last week near her home outside Ardmore, about 90 miles south of Oklahoma City.