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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Hound of the Baskervilles
So we'd just finished a lovely exquisite dinner of homemade burger and oven fries and we decided that we'd all take a lovely stroll around the neighbourhood. Going for a walk is one of Lucy's favourite things and about the only thing guaranteed to calm her, especially if we carry her in our arms. She especially loves to sit on my shoulders.
Anyway, we took the video camera so as to get some nice footage to keep and to send to my parents who've never met their little Grand-Daughter. Carrie was filming Lucy on my shoulders and I suggested that she walk on ahead a little and film us coming towards the camera. It was as she took position and started filming that it happened.....
This was a fraction of a second before.
Then the attack......
and this was the result.....
Of course I saw the dog approach but he didn't look aggressive. On the contrary, he looked like he was going to sniff her rear and when she screamed I thought it was just out of surprise.
We often walk by this house and the dog is really pretty and friendly looking but I think in this instance he saw us as a threat. His human was coming home and had activated the garage door through which the dog had run. This lady followed us home but we really weren't in the mood for dialogue so just went to the prompt care on Wabash which, mercifully, was having a quiet night. Funnily enough we were there around a week ago when Carrie was seen for a sinus infection.....same doctor too.
Not too much damage: Just a copayment, a little "irrigation" of the wounds, and a prescription. The financial parts of which will be billed to the neighbours' dog who will have to pull sleds in Alaska for a summer to pay.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
So we'd just finished a lovely exquisite dinner of homemade burger and oven fries and we decided that we'd all take a lovely stroll around the neighbourhood. Going for a walk is one of Lucy's favourite things and about the only thing guaranteed to calm her, especially if we carry her in our arms. She especially loves to sit on my shoulders.
Anyway, we took the video camera so as to get some nice footage to keep and to send to my parents who've never met their little Grand-Daughter. Carrie was filming Lucy on my shoulders and I suggested that she walk on ahead a little and film us coming towards the camera. It was as she took position and started filming that it happened.....
This was a fraction of a second before.
Then the attack......
and this was the result.....
Of course I saw the dog approach but he didn't look aggressive. On the contrary, he looked like he was going to sniff her rear and when she screamed I thought it was just out of surprise.
We often walk by this house and the dog is really pretty and friendly looking but I think in this instance he saw us as a threat. His human was coming home and had activated the garage door through which the dog had run. This lady followed us home but we really weren't in the mood for dialogue so just went to the prompt care on Wabash which, mercifully, was having a quiet night. Funnily enough we were there around a week ago when Carrie was seen for a sinus infection.....same doctor too.
Not too much damage: Just a copayment, a little "irrigation" of the wounds, and a prescription. The financial parts of which will be billed to the neighbours' dog who will have to pull sleds in Alaska for a summer to pay.
did she have to get tested for rabies? (you all have raccoons around the neighborhood?)
God speed with your healing, Carrie!
There were lots of young children playing nearby so I'm glad that they haven't been bitten.
In the neighbours defence, that the dog managed to be loose was probably just a random event that wouldn't usually occur. He looks like such a friendly dog and we probably seemed threatening to him. The neighbour was more upset than us....we were laughing about it on the way to prompt care.
Thanks for the good wishes. Carrie is doing fine.
How did you get the dog off of your daughter? Did he just bite and run or did you kick him?
Carrie recently called me from work to tell me that it looks like the antibiotic isn't working so she'll go back to the doctor tomorrow.