it always ends in tears

Last night the 3 year old son of my best friend was mauled by a dog, and had his left ear bitten off.  Fortunately the ear was found, iced and taken with Liam to the hospital where it was re-attached with over 150 tiny sutures.  It was a long night.  The dog was one of those small, yappy, terrier type dogs.  It happened at a 40th birthday party, the kids were inside watching Shrek, and immediately adjacent to the lounge room, the adults were outside on the deck mingling and tucking into the finger food.  Everything happened so quickly, that no-one has a clear idea of what exactly happened.  There were a few 12 and 13 year olds watching tv and keeping an eye on the kids, but there are as many different versions of what happened as there were kids present at the time.  In any case he is much recovered, up and walking around, and doesn't appear to be showing any sort of emotional after effects.  For now.

posted by: blytheswideshut at August 28, 2005 20:39 | link | comments |

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