Mom, kids rescue puppy

Luba · 05-06-2006, 06:43 PM

from CNews:

A 9-week-old-puppy thrown off a bridge by the heartless driver of a moving pickup truck is lapping up all the attention her rescuers can give.

"I was dumbfounded at what I saw," Joanna Jedlewska, 30 said. "I couldn't believe it."

The Mississauga mother, her daughter, Charlie, 5, niece, 4, and nephew, 2, were left wide-eyed Wednesday evening as the helpless, tiny dog they call "Flyer" was tossed into the Credit River.

She was driving west at 5:45 p.m. when she and the kids saw the driver of a black pickup "holding the puppy by the skin on the back of its neck. "His arm was straight out of the window," she said.

As the dog-tosser passed her van, "he whipped the puppy over the edge" without stopping. "My brain couldn't accept what was happening. The girls saw it...they were left wide-eyed. The puppy was yelping...it definitely sounded terrified and that's what caught our attention."

After turning around and stopping, she looked over the bridge. There were rocks about 30 metres below "but the puppy was in the water. She was swimming."

After drivng down a nearby road, they ran 500 metres to the river bank and recruited a man walking his dog. The children called "puppy, puppy, puppy," but heard nothing. The scared, shivering pup, believed to be a Jack Russell or fox terrier, was spotted five minutes later on shore, alive and unhurt, a miracle.

Wrapped in the children's swim towels, the soggy furball soon had a full tummy and lots of loving hugs. Jedlewska and husband Kyle foster children and have "lots ot pets", including Maybe, an Australian shepherd which adopted them in 1993 at a New Mexico camp, where police routinely shot at Maybe and other strays.

Peel Regional Police took a report about Flyer, but without a licence plate and no immediate missing pet report, an officer could offer no update.

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I felt more sadness as I typed this story about the cruelty of people to animals; but I think it was a wonderful miracle that this loving woman drove by when she did...

Merika · 05-07-2006, 08:43 AM

I would've probably picked it up also in order to drop it off at the Animal Shelter.

You are copying and pasting these in right??? Not actually TYPING them....

If you need a quickie computer course on doing that I'll be happy to help you.

Star · 05-07-2006, 08:51 AM

how can anyone be as heartless as to do that to an animal. I would've picked him up too and brought him to an animal hospital or shelter. This little guy's lucky to have these people save him. Poor little puppy.

Luba · 05-07-2006, 10:15 AM

Thanks, Merika, but I do know how to copy and paste but I like to type them out and shorten the articles if I can because I was told that if it's copyrighted material it shouldn't be used word for word...at least that's my understanding...

Weiser · 05-07-2006, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luba

Thanks, Merika, but I do know how to copy and paste but I like to type them out and shorten the articles if I can because I was told that if it's copyrighted material it shouldn't be used word for word...at least that's my understanding...

It's fine to put the whole article up there

I bet your typing skills are improving though Luba, am I right?