A Pietermaritzburg child got home from his creche yesterday to learn that his mother had been mauled to death by their three pet dogs. Mother of one Mpho Mokoena, 32, was attacked yesterday morning by two Rottweilers and a boerboel while hanging laundry at her home in Montrose, Pietermaritzburg.Mokoena's sister, Mmabatho Brown, who had seen her sister 30 minutes before the attack, said she was puzzled and shocked. She could not understand why the dogs, whom her sister cared for, would turn on her."She is the one who used to feed and play with them. I have still not been able to absorb what has happened. When I left home my sister was in such a good mood. She had been on the treadmill and said she was going to do some laundry."While hanging the laundry the dogs attacked her. Neighbours heard a commotion and could see my sister trying to chase the dogs away with a stick," she said.Brown said she was at a shopping mall when she met someone who told her that someone had been attacked by a dog outside her parents' home."I rushed to the house and thought maybe an intruder was attacked, but was told a 32-year-old was attacked. I realised it was my sister," she said.Brown said the dogs, which the family had had since 2012, were never aggressive."I have no idea what sparked this. They usually listen to Mpho."She said her parents dreaded breaking the news to Mokoena's son, who was at his creche at the time of the attack.According to a witness, a neighbour threw a chicken over the wall in the hope of getting the dogs away from Mokoena, but "nothing would lure them away".ER24 spokesman Russell Meiring said the woman had severe bite wounds to her head, chest, leg and arms."She succumbed to her injuries at the scene," said Meiring.The dogs have been put down...