skunkstripe
11-03-2007, 02:43 PM
It was time for some positive press for this breed and this is pretty positive!
In the face of a horrible highway crash that killed three people, a Pit Bull named Tiny refused to leave his badly injured owner. And when his owner was taken to the hospital, a kind soul brought Tiny to the emergency room so that he and his owner could see each other.
The cab slammed into the right-hand guardrail. Its back end wound up in the air, the right rear wheels atop the hood of a gray sedan wedged underneath.
In the aftermath, when everything had stopped, Martino saw the tractor-trailer driver yelling, “Get me out of here!” A dog popped up from behind the console of the cab, she said, and the driver of the gray sedan regained consciousness.
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As diesel fuel gushed from a hole punctured in the side of the tanker, Martino, fearing an explosion, didn't cross the highway. She said she called to the dog, a pit bull later identified as Tiny, to jump out and come down. The dog stayed put.
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Gagliardi arrived at the tractor-trailer, peered through a small hole torn open in the driver's side of the cab, and saw Tiny.
“I went to the passenger side and got him out,” Gagliardi said of the dog. “I wasn't sure if it was diesel fuel or home fuel. I couldn't see this guy get burned.”
Gagliardi walked the northbound entrance ramp and surrounding area with Tiny on a leash for the next couple of hours. The dog appeared unscathed and upbeat, wagging his tail and greeting strangers while searching for James Clock, his owner.
Around 12:30 p.m., Gagliardi received word that Clock had survived. He was in the hospital and wanted to see his dog.
When Gagliardi brought Tiny to the emergency room at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, he said, hospital workers weren't willing to let him in to the emergency room with the pit bull. But when he told them whose dog it was, they wheeled Clock into a part of the emergency room on a gurney so that he could be reunited with his dog.
Gagliardi said Clock thanked him profusely for caring for his dog, and hospital staff allowed Clock to keep Tiny with him until a friend from Long Island could come to pick him up.
long article here: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=c0021d32-e742-453a-9db0-604f49a6f0e9
In the face of a horrible highway crash that killed three people, a Pit Bull named Tiny refused to leave his badly injured owner. And when his owner was taken to the hospital, a kind soul brought Tiny to the emergency room so that he and his owner could see each other.
The cab slammed into the right-hand guardrail. Its back end wound up in the air, the right rear wheels atop the hood of a gray sedan wedged underneath.
In the aftermath, when everything had stopped, Martino saw the tractor-trailer driver yelling, “Get me out of here!” A dog popped up from behind the console of the cab, she said, and the driver of the gray sedan regained consciousness.
...
As diesel fuel gushed from a hole punctured in the side of the tanker, Martino, fearing an explosion, didn't cross the highway. She said she called to the dog, a pit bull later identified as Tiny, to jump out and come down. The dog stayed put.
...
Gagliardi arrived at the tractor-trailer, peered through a small hole torn open in the driver's side of the cab, and saw Tiny.
“I went to the passenger side and got him out,” Gagliardi said of the dog. “I wasn't sure if it was diesel fuel or home fuel. I couldn't see this guy get burned.”
Gagliardi walked the northbound entrance ramp and surrounding area with Tiny on a leash for the next couple of hours. The dog appeared unscathed and upbeat, wagging his tail and greeting strangers while searching for James Clock, his owner.
Around 12:30 p.m., Gagliardi received word that Clock had survived. He was in the hospital and wanted to see his dog.
When Gagliardi brought Tiny to the emergency room at The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, he said, hospital workers weren't willing to let him in to the emergency room with the pit bull. But when he told them whose dog it was, they wheeled Clock into a part of the emergency room on a gurney so that he could be reunited with his dog.
Gagliardi said Clock thanked him profusely for caring for his dog, and hospital staff allowed Clock to keep Tiny with him until a friend from Long Island could come to pick him up.
long article here: http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=c0021d32-e742-453a-9db0-604f49a6f0e9