Dog Chews off Crippled Boy's Fingers

[Guest Boo_Bradley]

Sleeping Fla. Boy Has 4 Fingers Gnawed Off By Family Dog

Fingers Found In Dog's Stomach

 

POSTED: 12:59 p.m. EDT October 15, 2003

UPDATED: 11:55 p.m. EDT October 15, 2003

 

A 6-year-old Florida boy who was partially paralyzed by a hit-and-run driver last year had four of his fingers chewed off by his family's dog because he couldn't feel what the animal was doing.

 

Dontavius Bryant, of Tampa, Fla., was hit by a driver last year and left with no feeling on his left side, which is why he didn't feel the dog chewing off his fingers to his second knuckle while he slept.

 

 

Dontavius's 10-year-old brother, who shares a bed with him, found blood on the bed when he awoke sometime between 5 and 5:30 a.m. Monday.

 

"My brother told me to look at my hand," said Dontavius, sitting in a wheelchair Tuesday afternoon at the hospital with his left hand wrapped in white gauze. "I looked at it, and it was bleeding."

 

Hillsborough County animal control officials destroyed the puppy, a mixed breed of chow and pit bull named Chaka.

 

The child's fingers were found in the dog's stomach, police said.

 

Jerrolyn "Shawn" Dewberry, 27, rushed her son to St. Joseph's Hospital. Dontavius was being treated at adjacent Tampa Children's.

 

"When I woke up, four of his fingers were off. It was a lot of blood," she said. "He went to sleep with 10 fingers, woke up with six." Dontavius, who is right-handed, lost the use of his left hand in October 2002 when the driver of a pickup hit him as he was attempting to cross the street on his way home from playing football. No one has been arrested.

 

Dontavius and his two older brothers had received the puppy as a gift from their aunt two to three weeks ago, family friend Diona Thomas said.

 

"I believe the dog didn't know what he was doing," Thomas said. "He was friendly. Everybody loved him."

 

Chaka will be the last dog Dontavius will have, his mother said. "I don't want more dogs," Dewberry said. "We're going to stick to fish, to birds. No pets like dogs."

 

Dontavius is taking his latest injury in stride, saying it doesn't interfere with his passion for playing video games.

 

"I'll be OK. I can still play video games with one hand," he said.

 

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[Lightning Flik 0]

Man that kid can't get a break... I feel sorry for him.

[MrRant 0]

Jesus Christ.... poor little kid. Even I don't think a joke would be appropriate for this.

 

Others may feel different.

Edited October 16, 2003 by MrRant

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

"I'll be OK. I can still play video games with one hand," he said.

Damn, talk about seeing a silver lining.

 

Can't go wrong with getting a kitty...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

until the thing uses his leg as a scratching post.

[Slayer 0]

My question is who wasn't feeding the dog so that it felt the need to turn this kid's hand into a snack?

[Anakin Flair 0]

That's a good question. The dog must have been really hungry to chew off the kids fingers.

[Guest FrigidSoul]

I bet this kid is exploited on Maury Povich within the next 6months

[Guest Anglesault]

"I'll be OK. I can still play video games with one hand," he said.

Damn, talk about seeing a silver lining.

 

Can't go wrong with getting a kitty...

Evil thing will scratch his eyes out

[1234-5678 0]

Can't go wrong with getting a kitty...

Evil thing will scratch his eyes out

If that happens, and the kid is still all smiles, I think we may have found "Job" for this millenium.

[Guest JMA]

Evil thing will scratch his eyes out

Oh, please. I have cats are they're very sweet. I know you've had bad experiences with cats, but that doesn't make them all bad. Period. Just like this situation doesn't make all dogs bad, either.

[Guest Choken One]

cats are evil. its a known fact.

[Guest JMA]

cats are evil. its a known fact.

Only beings which can fully understand their surroundings and complex concepts can be "evil." In other words, the only animal that can be evil is the human. Cats, like other animals, are a product of their enviroment. To say they are inherently evil is just illogical.

[Guest FrigidSoul]

cats are evil. its a known fact.

Only beings which can fully understand their surroundings and complex concepts can be "evil." In other words, the only animal that can be evil is the human. Cats, like other animals, are a product of their enviroment. To say they are inherently evil is just illogical.

I'm guessing you didn't see that movie where the Cats and Dogs could talk but the Cats were planning world domination...and we all know Hollywood has no reason to lie to us

[Vyce 0]

cats are evil. its a known fact.

Only beings which can fully understand their surroundings and complex concepts can be "evil." In other words, the only animal that can be evil is the human. Cats, like other animals, are a product of their enviroment. To say they are inherently evil is just illogical.

Cats are right bastards. Give me a dog any day of the week.

 

Even a dog that's gonna try and munch on my fingers the minute I lose consciousness.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

To be fair though, if they'd had a cat, then the dog wouldn't have had to eat the kid's fingers...

[Guest Choken One]

what kind of dog was this anyways?

 

Ah yes...PIT BULL!

 

Who decided to have a Pit Bull breed with kids in the house? Idiots. It's equal to having a lion and we saw what happened to roy...

[Dr. Tom 0]

what kind of dog was this anyways?

 

Ah yes...PIT BULL!

 

Who decided to have a Pit Bull breed with kids in the house? Idiots. It's equal to having a lion and we saw what happened to roy...

You're a cretin on two counts.

 

1. Roy was mauled by a tiger, not a lion.

2. I've known quite a few people who have owned pit bulls (yes, some have had kids) and never had one problem with them. The problem is people breed pit bulls as fighting dogs, but there's nothing at all wrong with the breed itself. Dobermans have had a history of turning on people, too, but pit bulls have become more publicized for it because the media love to report stories where a dog mauls a little kid.

[Internet Warfare 0]

wow, thats sad for the kid, he seems to be taking real well.

[Guest Plushy Al Logan]

Can't go wrong with getting a kitty...

Until I show up at the kid's house wanting to play football.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Then I'll arrive at your house with a shotgun...

[Vyce 0]

I might have to disagree about the pit bull comments made above.

 

I studied a few law cases in an internship this summer dealing with dog mauling. Pit bulls - those NOT bred for fighting - were the most frequent perpetrators.

 

You can argue it's training rather than the breed itself, but frankly, that's one breed of dog I wouldn't mind seeing fade out of existence.

[Guest FrigidSoul]

Everybody has forgot to bring up the fact that puppies chew on shit. This time it just happened to be a kid who had no feeling in his fingers. Most of the time you wake up and yell (along with backhand the fucking thing)...I mean its gonna take a puppy quite awhile to gnaw through bone.

 

I hope in an ironic twist of fate the kid picks up a goldfish simmiliar to the one in the South Park Halloween episode

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

So wait, they're not even going to get rid of this dog? Normally the kid would be pretty traumatized, but I guess this kid's pretty mature, or something. He's got a cool name too.

 

Still feel bad for him though, so much shit has happened to him and he's only six.

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Hillsborough County animal control officials destroyed the puppy, a mixed breed of chow and pit bull named Chaka.

 

Standard procedure for any animal that consumes human flesh.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Hillsborough County animal control officials destroyed the puppy, a mixed breed of chow and pit bull named Chaka.

 

Standard procedure for any animal that consumes human flesh.

Whoops, my bad for being illiterate.

[{''({o..o})''} 0]

I just hope that, one day, with the help of my friend, Mr. Grey Goose, that I can shake the problem of my illiteratecy.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Does anyone else find the phrase "destroyed the puppy" to be a little weird?

[Styles 0]

With apologies to Dr. Tom, this comes as no shock that it was a pitpull. Those dogs are simply dangerous and committed violent acts whether they were bred that way or not...so we should send them to Gitmo...no really, I honestly believe they should stop being bred. They sure as hell should be kept a way from children. I LOVE dogs and have 2 of my own but I want nothing to do with pitbulls, and do believe they are too dangerous to own as pets.

[HarleyQuinn 0]

Pitbulls indeed are the dogs of the devil...literally almost got my hand chomped off by one of those bastards while it was eating. It was a friend's co-workers dog, the thing was just eating it's dog food and I went over to pet it when it got my hand(up to the wrist) in it's mouth but I managed to yank my hand out before it bit down *shudders at the memory* I'm also a big lover of dogs and Pitbulls are the only dogs that honestly scare the living fuck outta me and that was before this incident.