and Amanda Horvath
Rocky Mountain PBS
The comment section of a social media post isn’t usually a place where you find the best of humanity, but a recent post about a dog attack has turned that idea on its head.
Mark Pape was recently walking his 8-and-a-half-year-old dog, River, in the Angeline Little Greenway in Littleton. It was a typical walk for them until another dog approached with a leash but running free. Pape said then the dog attacked.
“Kind of in those moments, I got freaked out. She was dominated by that other dog,” said Pape. “He definitely got her down and, you know, was going at her.”
The other dog’s owner caught up with the dog and they were pulled apart. Pape walked away shaken up, but River seemed OK.
Then, a couple of days later, Pape said he noticed River acting strange and discovered a wound from that incident. He took River to the veterinarian, who treated her with antibiotics and a staple for the puncture. Then Pape decided to post about the incident on the neighborhood social media app Nextdoor.
“The reason why we went to social media was trying to find the person … whose dog it was. I didn’t know what social media would do,” said Pape. “And, surprisingly and amazingly, something did happen.”
“My daughter was walking Bo,” explained Colleen Welch. Her dog, Bojangles — Bo for short — is an Anatolian shepherd. She said when she saw the post, she knew it was about her dog.
“It was just this freak accident that just happened where he decided ‘oh’ …...
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