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Don't read this unless you have a strong stomach
I mean it. I am not kidding.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...home-headlines Dog gnaws off Tampa boy's fingers The Associated Press October 15, 2003, 3:05 PM EDT TAMPA -- A 6-year-old, partially paralyzed boy had four fingers chewed off by his family's dog because he couldn't feel what the animal was doing. Dontavius Bryant was in good condition at Tampa Children's Hospital on Wednesday, two days after the attack. He had suffered partial paralysis on his left side when he was the victim of a hit-and-run crash a year ago, police said, which is why he could not feel the dog chewing off his fingers to his second knuckle while he slept. Dontavius's 10-year-old brother, who shares a bed with him, found blood on the bed when he awoke sometime between 5 and 5:30 a.m. Monday. "My brother told me to look at my hand,'' said Dontavius, sitting in a wheelchair Tuesday afternoon at the hospital with his left hand wrapped in white gauze. "I looked at it, and it was bleeding.'' Hillsborough County animal control officials destroyed the 5½-week-old puppy, mixed breed of chow and pit bull named Chaka. The child's fingers were found in the dog's stomach, police said. Jerrolyn "Shawn'' Dewberry, 27, rushed her son to St. Joseph's Hospital. Dontavius was being treated at adjacent Tampa Children's. "When I woke up, four of his fingers were off. It was a lot of blood,'' she said. "He went to sleep with 10 fingers, woke up with six.'' Dontavius, who is right-handed, lost the use of his left hand in October 2002 when the driver of a pickup hit him as he was attempting to cross the street on his way home from playing football. No one has been arrested. Dontavius and his two older brothers had received the puppy as a gift from their aunt two to three weeks ago, family friend Diona Thomas said. "I believe the dog didn't know what he was doing,'' Thomas said. "He was friendly. Everybody loved him.'' Chaka will be the last dog Dontavius will have, his mother said. "I don't want more dogs,'' Dewberry said. "We're going to stick to fish, to birds. No pets like dogs.'' Dontavius is taking his latest injury in stride, saying it doesn't interfere with his passion for playing video games. "I'll be OK. I can still play video games with one hand,'' he said. |
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