Pennsylvania mom’s gruesome final moments as she’s mauled to death by pet hybrid wolves

A Pennsylvania mom suffered an agonising death when she was mauled to death by eight of the strange hybrid beasts she called pets. Sandra L Piovesan’s body was discovered by her own daughter at her home in Salem Township. She had been mauled to death by her hybrid wolves.

The 50-year-old was killed by her own pet wolfdogs, a highly volatile breed which are created when a domestic dog is crossed with a gray wolf, eastern wolf, red wolf, or Ethiopian wolf to produce a hybrid.

Tragically, her body was found on Monday April 30, 2012, by her daughter inside the dogs’ electrified enclosure. Sandra had built this herself to keep the hybrid animals contained, according to Tribe Live.

Sandra’s autopsy revealed she bled out after raising the dogs as pets before they attacked her, according to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office. However, the coroner said that bizarrely the dogs seemed to have stopped the attack. Dr. Cyril H. Wech added the most serious injuries were to her scalp and legs. “It appears they (the wolves) stopped their attack,” he said. “It’s curious.”

Wecht said Piovesan probably died within minutes of the initial attack. Westmoreland County Humane Agent Elaine Gower repeated her concerns about the dangers of raising hybrid wolves as pets, with the expert saying she warned Sandra it was only a matter of time before the highly unpredictable animals turned on her.

The autopsy ended speculation that Sandra might have fallen ill whilst in the pen with her dogs, meaning they only attacked her after she was already dead, or had been still for a while.

“There is no evidence, in my opinion, of a heart attack, stroke, or any other condition involving a natural death that would have rendered her unconscious or cause her to become incapacitated,” Wecht said.

Other animal experts agree with Gower that hybrid wolves pose a greater danger to humans than wild wolves as hybrids are more likely to attack.

Gower said a friend of Sandra was attacked by one of the dogs about two years ago, but the friend failed to lodge an official complaint.

“We were all scared that someday, somehow, those wolves would escape that pen and hurt some child or someone,” Gower said. Sandra had successfully registered the animals at the county treasurer’s office as mixed-breed dogs, according to county records.

“With Sandra, the problem we had was when we were looking into something, she identified them as dogs. But when she sold the pups, they were identified as wolves,” Gower said.

Gower said she doesn’t know how many puppies Sandra sold nor does she know the identities of the buyers. Sandra’s eight dogs were euthanized so authorities could retrieve her body from inside the pen.

“They had to be killed. There was no way of knowing which one killed her,” Gower said. Two adult Rottweilers, owned by Piovesan and kept inside the house, were confiscated and will be placed in an animal sanctuary, Gower added. The Rottweilers were not the dogs that had been bred with the wolves to produce the hybrids, officials said.