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12-16-2009, 08:15 PM
Help Holly, dog dragged survives
December 14, 2009 5:29 PM
http://www.hsslc.org/holly.jpg
Holly is a young pitbull puppy clinging to life. At around 10 o' clock this morning her life almost ended. Tied to the back of this truck, she beat the odds.
"A car going about 40 miles per hour, that's amazing that she's still with us and alive," said Dr. Fox who is taking care of the dog.
Police say Napoleon Davis offered to take the dog to the humane society, his family wanted to get rid of her. Police don't know why they were giving up Holly.
Tom Nichols, with the Port St. Lucie Police Department said, "He put the dog in the rear bed of the truck and attached a 15 foot leash to the dog.
They left this home on Iffla Avenue, then Davis got onto busier roads. Officers say this is where it all took a very dangerous turn, Holly jumped out of the truck, still attached to the leash that was still attached to the truck.
Nichols said, "We know the dog was dragged 1.9 miles down the roadway."
Multiple roads, including curves all on the route that ended here on Rosser Blvd. Three witnesses saw the whole thing according to police, Davis was arrested. We tried knocking on the family's door, no answer. Back at the vet's, Holly is going through round after round of surgery. The first visitor at her bedside? The Police officer who was on the call this morning. She put Davis in handcuffs, but can't get this puppy off her mind. If you'd like to donate to help out this dog in Port Saint Lucie visit the website below for more information.
http://www.hsslc.org/
http://www.cbs12.com/news/dog-4723075-dragged-help.html
PORT ST. LUCIE — Holly’s tale is now wagging internationally.
The year-old pit bull mix that was dragged nearly 2 miles behind a pickup truck Monday morning has a Facebook group page with 325 members thanks to Ginger Sprinkle, a Charlotte, N.C., woman who read about the dog’s plight.
Sprinkle saw a copy of a newspaper story about Holly on Monday, and by 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sprinkle and two friends — identified only by their Facebook names “Willy Wonka” and “Athena Bane” — had set up Holly’s page. As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, the page had 325 members worldwide, thanks to Sprinkle’s friends overseas.
“We want to make sure the world knows about Holly and the cases like her,” Sprinkle said Wednesday afternoon.
In November, Sprinkle set up a Facebook page for a dog that had been dragged behind a truck in Knoxville, Tenn. Known as “Little Brown Dog,” Sprinkle said that pooch’s Facebook page has thousands of members and has raised about $13,500 for its treatment.
David Robertson, operations manager for the Humane Society of St. Lucie County, said Wednesday afternoon he had heard about the dog’s Facebook page, but had neither seen it nor spoken to the people who set it up.
Robertson said the Holly Holiday Fund, set up to help defray expenses for the dog’s treatment, totaled about $2,000 in donations as of late Wednesday afternoon. He couldn’t say how much of that could be linked to the Facebook page.
“With the proliferation of Facebook,” Sprinkle said, “when we start groups there for abused animals, it is with three goals in mind: bringing justice to the crime; getting the word out fast and worldwide with Facebook’s instant reach to anywhere; and, of course, to keep people updated on the healing progress of the dog involved in the atrocity at the hands of human behavior.”
Napoleon Zarah Davis, 31, of Port St. Lucie, Holly’s owner, was arrested on a charge of felony animal cruelty.
According to a Port St. Lucie Police Department report, Davis had tied the dog in the back of his pickup truck with a 15-foot leash. The dog jumped out of the truck near Paar Drive and Darien Street and was dragged to the 3200 block of Rosser Boulevard, about 1.9 miles, before a man caught up to Davis and got him to stop the truck, according to police.
Davis later told police he didn’t know the dog had jumped out of the truck bed.
The dog was taken to the Animal Hospital of West Port St. Lucie with severe road rash, particularly on her feet. On Tuesday, Dr. Leonard Fox, a veterinarian, had amputated the dog’s two hind inner toes.
Fox, whose staff named the dog Holly because of the holiday season, said the dog will need extended treatment for road rash burns, but he expects her to fully recover in about six weeks.
HELPING HOLLY
To contribute to the Holly Holiday Fund, call the humane society at (772) 461-0687.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/dec/16/dragged-dog-holly-has-facebook-page-about-her/
Holly's Facebook group can be found with a search there for Justice for Holly, Port St. Lucie, Florida
OR link here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=243151849277
December 14, 2009 5:29 PM
http://www.hsslc.org/holly.jpg
Holly is a young pitbull puppy clinging to life. At around 10 o' clock this morning her life almost ended. Tied to the back of this truck, she beat the odds.
"A car going about 40 miles per hour, that's amazing that she's still with us and alive," said Dr. Fox who is taking care of the dog.
Police say Napoleon Davis offered to take the dog to the humane society, his family wanted to get rid of her. Police don't know why they were giving up Holly.
Tom Nichols, with the Port St. Lucie Police Department said, "He put the dog in the rear bed of the truck and attached a 15 foot leash to the dog.
They left this home on Iffla Avenue, then Davis got onto busier roads. Officers say this is where it all took a very dangerous turn, Holly jumped out of the truck, still attached to the leash that was still attached to the truck.
Nichols said, "We know the dog was dragged 1.9 miles down the roadway."
Multiple roads, including curves all on the route that ended here on Rosser Blvd. Three witnesses saw the whole thing according to police, Davis was arrested. We tried knocking on the family's door, no answer. Back at the vet's, Holly is going through round after round of surgery. The first visitor at her bedside? The Police officer who was on the call this morning. She put Davis in handcuffs, but can't get this puppy off her mind. If you'd like to donate to help out this dog in Port Saint Lucie visit the website below for more information.
http://www.hsslc.org/
http://www.cbs12.com/news/dog-4723075-dragged-help.html
PORT ST. LUCIE — Holly’s tale is now wagging internationally.
The year-old pit bull mix that was dragged nearly 2 miles behind a pickup truck Monday morning has a Facebook group page with 325 members thanks to Ginger Sprinkle, a Charlotte, N.C., woman who read about the dog’s plight.
Sprinkle saw a copy of a newspaper story about Holly on Monday, and by 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sprinkle and two friends — identified only by their Facebook names “Willy Wonka” and “Athena Bane” — had set up Holly’s page. As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, the page had 325 members worldwide, thanks to Sprinkle’s friends overseas.
“We want to make sure the world knows about Holly and the cases like her,” Sprinkle said Wednesday afternoon.
In November, Sprinkle set up a Facebook page for a dog that had been dragged behind a truck in Knoxville, Tenn. Known as “Little Brown Dog,” Sprinkle said that pooch’s Facebook page has thousands of members and has raised about $13,500 for its treatment.
David Robertson, operations manager for the Humane Society of St. Lucie County, said Wednesday afternoon he had heard about the dog’s Facebook page, but had neither seen it nor spoken to the people who set it up.
Robertson said the Holly Holiday Fund, set up to help defray expenses for the dog’s treatment, totaled about $2,000 in donations as of late Wednesday afternoon. He couldn’t say how much of that could be linked to the Facebook page.
“With the proliferation of Facebook,” Sprinkle said, “when we start groups there for abused animals, it is with three goals in mind: bringing justice to the crime; getting the word out fast and worldwide with Facebook’s instant reach to anywhere; and, of course, to keep people updated on the healing progress of the dog involved in the atrocity at the hands of human behavior.”
Napoleon Zarah Davis, 31, of Port St. Lucie, Holly’s owner, was arrested on a charge of felony animal cruelty.
According to a Port St. Lucie Police Department report, Davis had tied the dog in the back of his pickup truck with a 15-foot leash. The dog jumped out of the truck near Paar Drive and Darien Street and was dragged to the 3200 block of Rosser Boulevard, about 1.9 miles, before a man caught up to Davis and got him to stop the truck, according to police.
Davis later told police he didn’t know the dog had jumped out of the truck bed.
The dog was taken to the Animal Hospital of West Port St. Lucie with severe road rash, particularly on her feet. On Tuesday, Dr. Leonard Fox, a veterinarian, had amputated the dog’s two hind inner toes.
Fox, whose staff named the dog Holly because of the holiday season, said the dog will need extended treatment for road rash burns, but he expects her to fully recover in about six weeks.
HELPING HOLLY
To contribute to the Holly Holiday Fund, call the humane society at (772) 461-0687.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/dec/16/dragged-dog-holly-has-facebook-page-about-her/
Holly's Facebook group can be found with a search there for Justice for Holly, Port St. Lucie, Florida
OR link here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=243151849277