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Puppy 'whipped' over bridge

Posted : 5/5/2006 2:23:55 PM

This article was in the Toronto Sun today. How can people be so heartless and cruel....at least there was a happy ending.

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 yesterday. "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 near Dundas St. W. and Mississauga Rd.
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, Jedlewska said.
"My brain couldn't accept what was happening.
"The girls saw it ... they were left wide-eyed," Jedlewska said. "The puppy was yelping ... it definitely sounded terrified and that's what caught our attention."
'WAS SWIMMING'
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 driving down a nearby road, they ran 500 metres to the river bank and recruited a man walking his dog. The children began calling "puppy, puppy, puppy," but there was no response.
The scared, shivering pup, believed to be either a Jack Russell or a fox terrier, was spotted five minutes later on the shore, miraculously alive and unhurt.
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 of 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 yesterday said she could offer no update.

sharismom

Posted : 5/5/2006 3:36:40 PM

Holy cow! I'm glad the pup lived and sounds like she's with a family who will love and care for her. Good for the woman who stopped!

I hope the "thrower" knows where (s)he is going in the afterlife.

Krista J

Posted : 5/5/2006 3:36:55 PM

My jaw dropped to this. What drives a person to do such hayness things like this??? If you dont like the dog, give it to someone who wants it! What in the world could a dog do to a person that would drive them to throw a dog over a bridge? A do has no real defense against a person much bigger than them. I will never come to terms with how people treat animals sometimes. I hope they find out who this guy is and I hope he pays! At least the dog survived and is in loving arms right now.

chris

Posted : 5/5/2006 9:15:13 PM

Oh wow what a sick *beep* But thank God the dog was not hurt but still I hope they find this guy. I would like to throw his butt off the bridge see how he would like it...

lorib

Posted : 5/5/2006 11:37:12 PM

No, if he was thrown from a bridge, he would surley die quickly. I propose we put him in a shower at the men's jail with his hands tied to his ankles and no clothes on.[sm=banghead002.gif]

Patt

Posted : 5/6/2006 1:03:36 AM

I hesitated on reading this, I'm glad there was a happy ending. Hopefully the person that did this will get his very soon.

Julie Byers

Posted : 5/6/2006 1:04:28 AM

It is outrageous that those things continue in this day and age. Many years ago I was foster mamma to four pups brought in by a good samaritan who observed a man driving a car ahead of them, at his urging he had his CHILD drop the pups out of the window of the moving car. They must not have been going too fast luckily, the people watching this horror stopped and picked up all four. They were scrawny and thick with fleas. We as a society just don't punish these actions harsh enough. We continue to regard our animals as our property just like our coffee tables and lamps. Just move it over there out of the way and we're happy. Hey I can trash and dump my property as I see fit but don't you dare steal it!!
[sm=soap%20box.gif] Oops, I'm up here again, huh......this is me, stepping down now. Jules

jprinz99

Posted : 5/6/2006 5:10:11 AM

EEgads- what a first class jerk. I am so glad the pup is ok and that you have such great kids.
I hope that a*^hole gets what's coming to him. Perhaps he will make the mistake of laughing at some big, burly biker dude! Then he will know what terror feels like!

Julie Byers

Posted : 5/6/2006 3:39:11 PM

Laffin @ jprinz99 about burly biker dudes. . . I am a big burly biker (dudette) lmaoooo. You would never know it lol Most of the time I carry on just like any June Cleaver taking care of my children and Mack, working, paying taxes, etc. But when I wear riding gear I do in fact Scare the crud out of some people. I would have no qualms about getting in that creepy owner's face just to see him back away but I do not behave like that esp in front of my kids

I am a Civilized Biker (I have never been to jail nor do I use drugs) I couldn't resist comenting. Ur the bomb jprinz99 [

] Jules

ron2

Posted : 5/6/2006 5:42:23 PM

And I'm a big burly dude who likes motorcycles but can't afford one right now (though a friend and I are going to get into rebuilding old ones on the cheap.) Sharismom wondered if the thrower knew what awaits him in the afterlife. I wouldn't mind helping him to that afterlife a little sooner. I, like you, have no problem getting literally an inch away from someone's face and calling them out. I fear no man, which is sometimes a hindrance to my social skills, other times an asset. Such a case as this would be very trying to me if I were an ACO. The temptation is there to exact my idea of justice on the "accused." Similar to Lori, though a little more fitting. For example, spray deer urine or musk on him and let him loose with some hungry wolves. I just had a thought about the barbecue recipe in "Fried Green Tomatos." "The secret's in the sauce."

At least things turned out well.