The story:

Even if there are a few scrapes between them, John Reynolds insists his dogs are friendly. All 17 of them. All pit bulls.

"They were like best buddies," Reynolds says of his father the 84-year-old Rev. John Reynolds and one of the pit bulls. "My dad would sit there and feed him off his spoon. They slept together."

Reynolds says no one knew his dogs' nature more than his father who owned the home and property where John raises the dogs.

Which makes what he found on Wednesday night, October 13th, even harder to understand.

"I could see that he'd been attacked by something," Reynolds recalls.

He came home that night and found his father on the ground in the pen with severe bite marks. He did not survive the attack.

Why the subject line has a question mark:

He admits it's only speculation, but Reynolds believes stray dogs or possibly even a mountain lion may have attacked his father and his pit bulls.

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