(Radio Iowa) – The Clay County Sheriff says a woman died earlier this week near the driveway to her home after being attacked by her Great Dane dogs. The Clay County Communications Center originally received a 9-1-1 call Monday afternoon from a person believing he had come across a motorcycle crash on a county road near Rossie , about 12 miles south of Spencer.

The caller told dispatchers he could see a person in a nearby ditch but was unable to get close because of a group of large dogs near the person. Deputies with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office determined it was not a crash and the person in the ditch — identified as 43-year-old Mindy Kiepe — had died from injuries caused by the five dogs that were all determined to be hers.

All five of the animals were euthanized following the investigation.