Dog behavior expert reveals how 'trigger stacking' could have caused pet pit bull Simba to attack his owner and kill her
In October 2017, Tania Klemke died as a result of a sudden attack from her pet pit bull Simba at her home in Watson in the northern suburbs of Canberra. This breed of dogs has earned quite a reputation of being violent and known to attack people but dog behaviorists beg to differ as they investigate the real reasons behind why some pets behave in this deadly manner.
According to a Florida based dog behavior expert, Jim Crosby, the dog most likely snapped after 'trigger stacking'. As reported by DailyMail, he shared, "In dogs, there's something called trigger stacking. A dog may have a moderate or low-level response to any one particular thing, but if you build up the stress of multiple things that can result in a dog reacting quite strongly, even if none of the individual triggers would do it."