The right time to bite!
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:05 pm
Dog's bite keeps owner safe in SUV
KAREN KAWAWADA
KITCHENER (Dec 16, 2005)
It could have been a terrible situation. A man ran up to a woman as she was stopped at a red light and tried to get in her car.
But Teresa Ardron of Guelph is safe today, thanks to her protective pooch, who bit the intruder as he was trying to climb in.
Shortly after 2 a.m., the 18-year-old was on her way to pick up her boyfriend at a Kitchener friend's house when she stopped at the intersection of King and Pine streets, near Grand River Hospital.
That's when the man ran up to her GMC Jimmy and grabbed the handle of the passenger side door.
Ardron tried to lock the door, but flipped the central-locking switch the wrong way in her panic.
The man got the door open, and Ardron screamed, waking up her two-year-old German shepherd, who had been snoozing on the back seat.
The man had his arm inside the car and was about to sit down when Bear lunged and bit the man hard on the wrist. The man withdrew his arm and ran off, visibly bleeding.
"It all happened so fast," Ardron said.
Ardron went to her friend's house and tried to call 911 but was so shaken she accidentally called 411 instead.
Initially, she was scared something would happen to her normally gentle dog -- and Bear was evidently also scared.
"He was hiding in the back and he wouldn't come out until the police officer got there," Ardron said. "I think he thought I was mad at him."
Officers assured Ardron nothing would happen to her dog, although he is in quarantine at the moment.
"It was strange to see my dog react like that . . . he's never attacked anyone before," said Ardron, adding Bear is gentle with her newborn baby.
"In a way, I used to wonder what he'd do (in a dangerous situation) but now I know. When I walk with him at night, I'm safe."
Police called in their dogs to try to track the man, but weren't successful, said Det. Sgt. Rudy Smith.
Neither police nor Ardron are sure what the man's intentions were -- if he wanted to steal the car or worse. He appeared to be intoxicated, Ardron said.
The man is described as white, about 25 years old, six foot two inches tall, clean-cut and clean-shaven. He wore a big grey coat with a hood.
"He was just a normal-looking guy . . . that makes it scarier in a way," Ardron said.
As for Bear, Ardron and her family are treating him as a hero.
"He got a full box of cookies when we got home."
KAREN KAWAWADA
KITCHENER (Dec 16, 2005)
It could have been a terrible situation. A man ran up to a woman as she was stopped at a red light and tried to get in her car.
But Teresa Ardron of Guelph is safe today, thanks to her protective pooch, who bit the intruder as he was trying to climb in.
Shortly after 2 a.m., the 18-year-old was on her way to pick up her boyfriend at a Kitchener friend's house when she stopped at the intersection of King and Pine streets, near Grand River Hospital.
That's when the man ran up to her GMC Jimmy and grabbed the handle of the passenger side door.
Ardron tried to lock the door, but flipped the central-locking switch the wrong way in her panic.
The man got the door open, and Ardron screamed, waking up her two-year-old German shepherd, who had been snoozing on the back seat.
The man had his arm inside the car and was about to sit down when Bear lunged and bit the man hard on the wrist. The man withdrew his arm and ran off, visibly bleeding.
"It all happened so fast," Ardron said.
Ardron went to her friend's house and tried to call 911 but was so shaken she accidentally called 411 instead.
Initially, she was scared something would happen to her normally gentle dog -- and Bear was evidently also scared.
"He was hiding in the back and he wouldn't come out until the police officer got there," Ardron said. "I think he thought I was mad at him."
Officers assured Ardron nothing would happen to her dog, although he is in quarantine at the moment.
"It was strange to see my dog react like that . . . he's never attacked anyone before," said Ardron, adding Bear is gentle with her newborn baby.
"In a way, I used to wonder what he'd do (in a dangerous situation) but now I know. When I walk with him at night, I'm safe."
Police called in their dogs to try to track the man, but weren't successful, said Det. Sgt. Rudy Smith.
Neither police nor Ardron are sure what the man's intentions were -- if he wanted to steal the car or worse. He appeared to be intoxicated, Ardron said.
The man is described as white, about 25 years old, six foot two inches tall, clean-cut and clean-shaven. He wore a big grey coat with a hood.
"He was just a normal-looking guy . . . that makes it scarier in a way," Ardron said.
As for Bear, Ardron and her family are treating him as a hero.
"He got a full box of cookies when we got home."