August 9, 1992 40 pages

On the down side

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Law suit threatened after four-year-old
allegedly attacked by neighbor’s Chow

discovered the dog was involved in

AN ALLEGED attack by a Chow dog on a four-year-old
boy appears to be headed for the courts.

North Vancouver resident Peter
Jaeggle claims that his neighbor’s
dog attacked his son David on
June 16, causing several lacera-
tions to the youngster’s head.

But Jaeggle’s neighbor, Rory
Peterman, said the dog was owned
by his ex-girlfriend and claimed
Jaeggle is only taking him to court
in a bid for financial compensa-
tion.

Following the alleged attack,

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

the Society for the Preservation of
Animals (SPCA) had the dog
destroyed. The incident involving
Jaeggle’s son was the fourth such
complaint about the dog.

Jaeggle said he only decided to
take Peterman to court when he

Previous attacks. He added that
his lawyer is in the process of fil-
ing legal documents.

The incident allegedly occurred
in the 2400-block of William
Avenue in the Lynn Valley area.

“It’s definitely going to court
now. We had just got back from a
bike ride. David had decided to
walk up the laneway and I went
into the house.

“He had seen this neighbor’s
red Chow dog around before and
he saw it standing there and

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decided he would pet it. Then the
dog growled at him and David
pretended to shoot it with his toy
gun.

“He then turned around and
started to run and the dog attack-
ed him and started biting the back
of his head,”’ said Jaeggle.

He added that he ran outside
after hearing his son scream and
the dog allegedly attempted to at-
tack Jaeggle, ‘‘but | gave it a
couple of kicks to the head.”’

“They had no control over the
dog and I screamed at them to get
the dog off my kid. The SPCA
said this dog had three warnings
against him already, one in Rich-
mond and two in North Van-
couver,’” he said.

An SPCA spokesman confirmed
it received a complaint from

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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

NVC FIREFIGHTER Dan “Hilty’’ Hilton dangles upside down from a nine-storey building
to practise rescue techniques. In this specialized scenario, firefighters approach from
building tops, clip victim onto fine and continue their descent.

Jaeggle on June 16 and had the
dog destroyed after fearning about
the previous attacks.

Jaeggle estimates that his son
received about 60 stitches to his
head.

‘Dave has never feared an
animal before in his life but the
incident has started to catch up to
him now. We _ have trouble
washing and cutt his hair. He’s
not the same,’’ said Jaeggle.

But Peterman said he tried to
resolve the incident with Jaeggle,
but that Jaeggle had demanded
the dog be destroyed.

Peterman also said he regretted
the decision to have the dog
destroyed.

“Any dog can attack,’
Peterman.

said

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