Wife and I were playing. My Ranger spotted him on track. Thought to myself, "cool, another named", We headed for the fight. Wife looked up his fight stats and we engaged. The fight started fairly well, then the mutts showed up. Even with a 111 tank and 110 Ranger and 111 Chanter, and the dogs still overwhelmed us.
Take away's:
Know your opponent: Don't let your wife read the fight stats, (she missed the part about the dogs being called.)
Environment: We were in a cramped space and we started to get more cramped when the other dogs showed up, which could have led to the wipe. (so the wife wiped us?) Have someone dedicated to root and mez (fell back to that, but too little toooooooo late).