I'll also just reinforce these lines:
Animal control officers have taken the dogs to the Spartanburg Humane Society as part of the investigation. The dogs' owner, Patricia Hancock, has been issued six tickets for failure to provide verification of rabies innoculation.
Spartanburg County environmental enforcement officers visited Hancock's home in March as a result of complaints of dogs running at large.

Where is the owner's responsibility in all of this? She did not provide rabies shots and allowed her dogs to run loose.

Perhaps everyone should look a bit further than mother vs. dogs.