Dog recovering after being hit by suspect DUI driver

[Kadie]

Dog recovering after being hit by suspect DUI driver

By JEREMY HAY
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT


Published: Monday, May 10, 2010 at 5:03 p.m.


A dog that was run down by an allegedly drunk Sebastopol couple is making a steady recovery, his owner said Monday.

Thor, a Siberian Husky, suffered numerous cuts and “is dazed,” but is on the mend and under observation at an animal clinic, said Eric W Kritz of Graton.

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Soon after the 6 p.m. incident, Lone Pine Road resident Kristina Derkos happened on the scene. Thor was in the middle of the road, she said, blood running from his mouth and staining his white coat.

A couple was kneeling by the dog trying to help, but things looked grim, Derkos said.

“I've been around animals all my life, and sick and injured animals, and I thought he was a goner,” she said.

Derkos raced home to get her husband and 12-year-old son — who thought to bring a blanket to help lift Thor — and returned to find more neighbors trying to help. Together they lifted the dog, which was “screaming in pain,” into her car.

Events were scrambled further when the Yukon came barreling back through the scene, Derkos said: “People started screaming ‘Stop and slow down, you're going to hit someone,' they said, ‘that's the guy that hit him, that's the car that hit him,'” she said.

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http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100510/ARTICLES/100519961/1349?Title=Thor-on-the-mend#



Picture of Thor here...
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[flvegan]

1. Blessed be these brother's keepers.

Lots of good folks here. Those that stopped, those that chased.

As it should be.

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

I am the voice of the voiceless:
Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.

From street, from cage and from kennel,
From jungle, and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail

For love is the true religion,
And love is the law sublime;
And all is wrought, where love is not
Will die at the touch of time.

Oh shame on the mothers of mortals
Who have not stopped to teach
Of the sorrow that lies in dear, dumb eyes,
The sorrow that has no speech.

The same Power formed the sparrow
That fashioned man-the King;
The God of the whole gave a living soul
To furred and to feathered thing.

And I am my brother’s keeper,
And I will fight his fight;
And speak the word for beast and bird
Till the world shall set things right.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Booster]

2. Beautiful poem. I emailed it to everyone I know. Thanks for posting.

[Biker13]

3. I Hope The Pup Makes It.

K&R