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A Florida dog owner allegedly faked a heart attack while being arrested after her two pets viciously mauled a woman to death, according to cops.<\/p>\n

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Linda Cutler, 29, \u201cfeigned having a heart attack\u201d while she was being hauled into custody by cops Wednesday,\u00a0Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey told reporters.<\/p>\n

Cutler, who has since been charged with manslaughter, was nabbed near the Hilton hotel in Melbourne, which is located on Florida\u2019s \u201cSpace Coast\u201d \u2014 a week after her two mixed-breed dogs savaged 50-year-old dog-walker Jodi Cowan in Cocoa.<\/p>\n

Cutler\u2019s pooches Max and Mako climbed over the fence just before 2 a.m. May 19 before \u201cforcing her [Cowan] to the ground, viciously attacking her and eventually dragging her across the ground for quite some distance,\u201d Ivey said.<\/p>\n

Cowan\u2019s husband, Donnell Smith, swung a knife at the two dogs in a desperate bid to shoo them away.<\/p>\n

Moments after the attack, she called 911 and said, \u201cI\u2019m dying, can\u2019t breathe,\u201d according to audio obtained by Florida Today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was brutal. Seeing the same woman I\u2019ve loved for the last 25, 30 years just ripped apart by two animals was just \u2026 I\u2019ll never get that image out of my mind,\u201d Smith told WESH, describing the horror.<\/p>\n

Cowan died from her injuries hours later, but Cutler wasn\u2019t immediately arrested; she was only nabbed when cops responded to an unrelated disturbance at the beachside location.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHope you enjoyed your time at the beach because you\u2019re not going to be going back,\u201d Ivey said as cops escorted her to jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the purpose of that?\u201d a seemingly clueless Cutler, who faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted, responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cA woman is dead and two dogs are about to be euthanized because of your uselessness,\u201d the sheriff replied.<\/p>\n

Cutler didn\u2019t strengthen her fence despite knowing her dogs had previously escaped, according to the authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And one of Cutler\u2019s neighbors had previously been bitten by her other dogs \u2014 but they didn\u2019t cooperate with cops, WFLA reported<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey were always on the loose,\u201d neighbor Dominica Midkiff told Florida Today.<\/p>\n

The authorities couldn\u2019t seize the animals because the incidents failed to meet the legal requirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The two dogs will be euthanized.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cutler\u2019s arraignment is scheduled for June 23. <\/p>\n

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