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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Great. Flame
Adoption offers pour in for pet husky
Two-day-old baby boy died after he was bitten by the dog in his Airdrie home Calgary Flames great Al MacInnis speaks during a ceremony to honour him in the team’s Forever a Flame program before the start of the Flames’ game against the St. Louis Blues on Monday.
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Al MacInnis ‘proud to be a Flame’ Al MacInnis received several gifts while being honoured at the Saddledome on Monday and it was announced that the Flames would donate $25,000 to the charity of his choice. “It was the people of Calgary who welcomed me to the NHL, who made me proud to be a Flame,” he said. MacInnis spent his first 13 National Hockey League seasons in Calgary, beginning in 1981.
Animal lovers from across the country are volunteering to adopt a pet husky that killed a newborn baby in Airdrie. At least a dozen people have made requests through the city of Airdrie and many more have sent messages to the baby’s parents. “Euthanizing this dog will not bring that little baby back,” said Ron Pawlowski of Bradford, Ont., a business professor who wants to have the dog moved to his farm. “I know that the whole country shares in this poor family’s grief. If this dog proves to be no further a threat, I hope that the dog can be given a new home.” The two-day-old baby boy was bitten Feb. 15 in the couple’s
Parents in mourning Rob and Rhonda Fradette said in a statement last week that they had been mourning the loss of their new baby and hadn’t discussed whether the dog should be destroyed.
home in the bedroom community north of Calgary. He died later that night in hospital. A family friend has said the baby was crying in his crib, and the dog was likely trying to comfort him when it bit him once in the head. The female dog had previously given birth to several litters of puppies. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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