Greyhounds miscounted at accident
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By Times staff | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
(Kevin E. Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Miss Sherry, a greyhound who was treated by a Quad-City area vet, received five staples above her left eye after she was injured in a rollover early this morning.
TODAY: (Updated 3:20 p.m.) An official said this afternoon that the number of greyhound dogs missing and killed were miscounted in all the confusion at the scene of a fatal accident early today.
Tom Ryan, a retired Davenport fire chief who is active in the Quad-City Greyhound Adoption organization, said three dogs, not four, were killed and that four, not three, got away.
All but one of the missing dogs have been found within a mile of the accident site, he said.
The fourth dog, which has been spotted, is acting “spooked,” he added.
The four dogs ran off after a one-vehicle accident about 4:30 a.m. on Interstate 80 that killed a pickup truck driver.
Police are investigating the accident in which Francis Evans, 62, of Rayland, Ohio, was pronounced dead at the scene, just west of the Division Street overpass on I-80. Police said he suffered massive head injuries. Two passengers were uninjured.
Ryan said he thought the two passengers in the pickup were in their 20s and suffered only minor injuries.
The truck was hauling 30 dogs from Oklahoma to Kenosha, Wis., when it went off the right side of the road, struck a large sign and continued southeast, where it stopped in a field about 350 feet south of the interstate, police said. The trailer broke free from the truck, and it plowed through a ditch with the trailer turning over at least once, police said.
Three dogs that got loose were killed by oncoming traffic.
Police are asking the public to call immediately if they see the missing dog, which is muzzled and cannot eat or drink.
At the adoption center in Maysville, Iowa, another three injured greyhounds were recovering this afternoon, including two with leg injuries and one with stitches above its eye, none of them career-ending for the racing dogs.
Rescuers are especially worried about the dog that remains at large because of forecasts for winter weather moving in this weekend. The dogs have only 16 percent body fat, compared with 30 percent for non-racing dogs.
Ryan said it is amazing that 20 of the 30 dogs in the trailer were not hurt at all, given that it rolled at least 1 1/2 times. He was impressed with the structural integrity and the way it was made to hold up under the beating it took in the accident.
At least two Peoria, Ill., women are helping Quad-City Greyhound Adoption. They are from a similar central Illinois organization and were able to track down the owner of the dogs, who is from West Virginia, but owns a kennel at Dairyland, the dog racing track in Kenosha. That is where the dogs are headed on Monday.
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