AR-News: (IL) Dog survives, still friendly, after being shot in the face

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By JOHN C. SCATTERGOOD
jcscattergood at yahoo.com

MT. VERNON — This dog is big, black and friendly. His whole body wriggles 
when he see a stranger.
And he’s that way even though the left side of his face is torn up because of 
a bullet that was pumped into it.
Its wounds still ooze and the flesh is still raw, but the dog doesn’t growl 
and or show fear or hostility toward humans. Dr. Jo Lynn Lamczyk knows, because 
it was her infant daughter, Anna, who walked up to the dog’s cage Thursday 
with pieces of food in her fingers, offering it to the animal a piece at a time.
“He was being very careful,” the veterinarian said of the dog, which she 
calls Ihmo (EE-mo), after a character in the movie “The Mummy” which had only 
part of a face. 
Ihmo gently nibbled at the food, doing no harm to Anna.
Lamczyk doesn’t know all the details of what happened, but she does know the 
dog owes its life to a boy who got the animal to her.
The boy saw the dog walking across some land when someone shot it.
“He saw it fall over,” Lamczyk said. 



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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein
My choice for fashion is compassion ... They need it more than we do."
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