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JESSE OWENS
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Joel and Roseanne McNarland were driving to church last Friday night when they saw what appeared to be a sad sight: a dog had been hit by a car and was injured on the walking path along 21 Avenue SE.
Roseanne told her husband to drive up to the scene. As they approached, they saw a man repeatedly hitting the dog with a snow shovel. "He must be putting the dog out of his misery," thought Joel. But as they neared, it became apparent that the dog, a pitbull, had a smaller dog that looked like a Shih Tsu in his mouth, while a woman with blood covered hands desperately tried to separate the two. The couple stopped and Roseanne instructed her husband to do something. Joel had no weapons handy and wasn't sure what to do, but fortunately four people soon showed up with hockey sticks and shovels. Joel grabbed one of the sticks and, along with the four other people, started hammering the pitbull. They beat the dog for what seemed like a lifetime, but to no avail. He wouldn't budge. Then a gentleman with a goalie stick came up and delivered a mighty blow that fazed the dog enough for the smaller dog to escape. The pitbull backed away from the crowd and calmed down while two men cared for the injured woman. After administering first aid to her hands, one of the men told the crowd that one of her fingers was bitten clean off. The group of people began looking for the severed digit, which Roseanne found hidden in the grass. She ran across the street to a house and put the finger in a bag full of ice until paramedics arrived. Meanwhile, the pitbull was forced into a nearby garage and locked in until police officers arrived. The small dog that was mauled by the pitbull was covered in blood, but was still alive when it was taken to the vet. As for the woman, the McNarlands say she was in so concerned about her Shih Tsu that she didn't even notice her finger was bitten off. The News tried to contact the injured woman, but was unable to by press time on Monday. None of the people at the scene had seen the pitbull before, but one of them stated that another pitbull was roaming around earlier in the evening. Until she is assured that there are no more pitbulls on the loose, Roseanne plans to keep her own dogs away from that area. |
