Child copes with dog bite injuries, fears April 22, 2009 — THOMASVILLE — A little Coolidge girl lost her best friend on Wednesday. The Rottweiler Hanna Cannon fed with a bottle when the canine was the only puppy in its litter to survive was to go to a new home Wednesday. The 9-year-old girl no longer wants the dog, Trixie, around. That was her best friend, said Jack Cannon, Hannas father. Something happened to the child Saturday, April 5, that changed the way she feels about dogs. The incident is causing other emotional repercussions. Hanna was in the back yard of her Coolidge neighbors house when she was attacked by a Border Collie. She had gone next door where others had gathered around where a golf cart that had bogged down. When the cart was free, Hanna and others were walking away. The girl was swinging her arms when the dog attacked, said her mother, Diane Cannon. She did not try to pet the dog, Mrs. Cannon said. Some 163 stitches were required at the Archbold Memorial Hospital emergency room to close bite wounds. One of the childs teeth was chipped and another loosened during the attack. She had stitches on the inside and out, the mother said. Mrs. Cannon said holes left by the dogs teeth are in her daughters right eyebrow and the top of her left arm. A long, deep, jagged gash from the attack stretches along the girls right cheek. She reached up with her left arm, she said, to cover her face, the girls mother said. Lt. Melissa Hart, of the Thomasville-Thomas County …
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