[Cagdu] FW: Walk in park becomes a dog owner's nightmare

Mon Mar 12 20:29:14 PDT 2007

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Subject: Walk in park becomes a dog owner's nightmare

I wonder how many time we are going to see these stories before someone is 
held accountable?

Walk in park becomes a dog owner's nightmare
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>>>
>>>By Tonya Maxwell and Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah
>>>Tribune staff reporters
>>>
>>>February 20, 2007
>>>
>>>Laura Mercer sobbed Monday evening in a downtown hotel room,
>>>remembering the sounds her beloved dog made in the long minutes
>>>before his death.
>>>
>>>The dog lay near a fountain at the southern end of Grant Park
>>>Saturday evening, yelping and screaming, sounding as though he were
>>>being brutally stabbed, she recalled.
>>>
>>>Instead, Smokey, a Labrador retriever mix, was electrocuted in what
>>>Chicago Park District officials are calling "a freak accident."
>>>
>>>"I want to know how my best friend of nine years died the most
>>>horrible death in front of me," said a distraught Mercer, who was
>>>released Monday afternoon from Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She
>>>said she felt emotionally unable to return home.
>>>
>>>"What if this had been a little kid and it was a 5-year-old who put
>>>his mitten on the ground and died? I don't want anyone else to have
>>>this kind of pain."
>>>
>>>Park District spokeswoman Jessica Maxey-Faulkner said the dog
>>>stepped on an access panel in the ground along a raised asphalt
>>>walkway or promenade east of Michigan Avenue, near 8th Street.
>>>
>>>An electrical wire within the access panel had shorted out, she
>>>said, and when the dog stepped on the panel Saturday evening, he was
>>>fatally shocked.
>>>
>>>Chicago police said Monday they are investigating the death of a
>>>second dog that died in similar circumstances, according to Sgt.
>>>Eugene Mullins. No other information was available, including the
>>>location or time of the incident, Mullins said.
>>>
>>>Mercer, 30, was hospitalized for shock and for bites inflicted by
>>>Smokey. Her husband, Matthew Mock, was out of town at the time of
>>>the incident and joined her at the hospital.
>>>
>>>"You can prepare yourself that one day you might have to put a dog
>>>down, but with this, all her good memories of Smokey have been
>>>replaced by this," Mock said.
>>>
>>>The route Mercer and Smokey took Saturday in Grant Park was one they
>>>had walked innumerable times. They left their condominium at 11th
>>>Street and Michigan Avenue about 5:30 p.m. for an evening walk and a
>>>quick trip to a dog-friendly video store.
>>>
>>>About two blocks away, near 8th Street in Grant Park, Smokey yelped
>>>and lifted a paw, Mercer said. She thought the salt or snow was
>>>bothering him, maybe a rock.
>>>
>>>Then, the 60-pound dog began howling and Mercer said she thought
>>>Smokey was having a seizure. She reached for him and he bit her
>>>right hand. She pulled away and his teeth grabbed her back left leg,
>>>ripping her jeans.
>>>
>>>She called an emergency veterinarian clinic on her cell phone and a
>>>woman said the dog must be having a seizure and he would calm soon.
>>>Then Smokey slumped forward, Mercer said.
>>>
>>>She said she then knelt down.
>>>
>>>"I was trying to see if he was breathing or if he was dead. I put my
>>>fingers down to steady myself and I noticed my fingers tingling. I
>>>could feel it moving up through my hands and arms and my legs. It
>>>was a kind of a humming," she said, realizing that electricity was
>>>flowing from the ground.
>>>
>>>She saw another man walking toward her with a dog and she heard the
>>>animal yelp.
>>>
>>>"I screamed at the man to get out of there, it was going to kill his
>>>dog as well," she said, crying at the memory.
>>>
>>>In all, Mercer said she believes the ordeal lasted 15 minutes before
>>>Smokey died.
>>>
>>>She insists that her dog was on asphalt during most of the incident,
>>>about 5 feet from the panel Park District officials blame in the death.
>>>
>>>The dangers of stray voltage gained national attention after the
>>>death of Jodie Lane in New York City in 2004.
>>>
>>>She collapsed in slushy, bitter weather in the East Village as she
>>>walked her dogs and was electrocuted.
>>>
>>>Grant Park Conservancy President Bob O'Neill said he is concerned
>>>because the park has been trying to attract dogs and dog-owners with
>>>a new dog park.
>>>
>>>"When something like this happens, people feel nervous," O'Neill
>>>said. "We don't want another reason for dog walkers to feel
>>>unwelcomed in Grant Park."
>>>
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>>>
>>>tmaxwell at tribune. <mailto:tmaxwell%40tribune.com> com
>>>
>>>nahmed at tribune. <mailto:nahmed%40tribune.com> com
>>>Copyright (c) 2007, Chicago Tribune
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