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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