Injured dog ran straight to hospital emergency department following attack

When a large aggressive dog attacked little Bella the Snorkie at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Canada on Friday, the bleeding and injured animal knew exactly where to go. 

She ran straight to the emergency department of The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus. Bella, a 17-month-old Miniature Schnauzer-Yorkshire Terrier mix known as a Snorkie, was walking with owner Bruce Simpson in the Experimental Farms’s corn and bean fields at about 5:30pm when they encountered a woman and her dog, a German shepherd mix.

Neither animal was on a lead, despite a long-standing policy that dogs on the farm’s property must be restrained. The snarling dog ran directly at Simpson and poor Bella, who weighs just 14 pounds.

Before either Simpson or the other dog’s owner could react, it had grabbed Bella in its jaws and given her several vigorous shakes.

The attack lasted just a few seconds. Simpson jumped at the large dog to separate it from Bella, and the woman managed to get her dog on a lead. “I was just screaming at her, very upset,” a still-shaken Simpson recalled.

The angry exchange continued for several minutes as Simpson called 911. “She was saying, ‘I didn’t know anyone was here. I came because I didn’t expect anybody else to be around,’” Simpson said. After refusing to give him her name, she turned and walked away. 

Still on the phone with 911, Simpson began a frantic search. It wasn’t until he returned to his car, where the 911 operator had told him to wait for police, that he noticed the voice-mail message on his cellphone.

It was from Josh Picknel, a medic with the Ottawa Paramedic Service. Despite several deep bites and a three-to-four-inch flap of skin torn from her back, Bella had managed to make her way through the corn field, cross six lanes of rush-hour traffic, and present herself at the Civic’s emergency department.

Buchanan joked that Bella’s appearance at the emergency department was a sign of “animal intelligence. If you’re hurt, the first one you want to call is a paramedic. Dogs just instinctively know that.” Simpson was impressed, too. “What a smart dog!” he exclaimed.

“That’s pretty much the best place she could have gone. Which is weird.” After paramedics ferried Simpson and Bella to the Ottawa Veterinary Hospital on Boyd Avenue, Bella underwent three hours of surgery to stitch her together again.

She was released late Saturday to her owners, though there’s some concern that the strip of torn skin might not re-attach and heal properly. He’s still upset that the woman allowed her large dog to run free. “If she knew there was a potential for that to happen, the dog should never have been off lead and should have been muzzled,” he said.

Simpson has been in touch with city bylaw officers and has filled out a report on the incident. He’d like the woman to cover his veterinary bills, but most of all, he wants to make something is done so her dog doesn’t attack another defenceless animal. “I just don’t want it to happen to somebody else.”

Indonesian woman spends 19 years hiding behind a head scarf because she grew a beard after birth of her first child

Agustina Dorman found it unbearably painful to shave her goatee so was forced to let it grow - and now she is showing it off in newly released photos. After years of hiding her thick black facial hair under a hijab, Agustina Dorman, 38, has stepped proudly out and embraced her condition.
The Indonesian woman first noticed the hair sprouting on her face when she was 25, just days after the birth of her first child. Dismayed at what she saw in the mirror, she hid away and refused to see her friends and neighbours in her small village of Penaga, Indonesia.

But the brave woman has decided to ditch the clothing - regardless of the stares and unwanted attention she now attracts. Agustina said that whenever she tried to cut or shave her beard she experienced excruciating pain, so in the end she let it grow.

But scared that her children - aged 19 and three - would be bullied, Agustina hid away under the hijab. The unlucky woman also has a mild moustache and facial hair, and she at last felt she could hide it under the thick clothing.

But she says her eldest child began to get teased from others who found out about her unfortunate condition. It led her to confront her children's tormentors by unveiling herself and freely walking around their village for the first time.

She still gets taunted by some but others have accepted her in to the community whole-heartedly.She hopes that through education about her condition, people will become accepting of her appearance.

Earlier this year, German bearded lady Mariam appeared on Daytime TV to reveal she still felt sexy with her stubble.

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Chinese office worker inhales poisonous fumes, now speaks fluent English

After inhaling carbon monoxide fumes, a bilingual Chinese office worker in Wuhan impaired her ability to speak her native tongue but can now speak English fluently, Shanghai Daily reports.

The woman, Chen Jia, a 28 year old graduate from Hubei province's Jianghan University, inhaled carbon monoxide fumes at an indoor barbecue in Wuhan last year, leaving her unable to walk and unable to fluently communicate in her native Chinese tongue.

After receiving rehabilitation training, she can now walk again, but still cannot communicate effectively in Chinese. Rather, Chen's rehabilitative training in teaching English to the medical staff at her hospital has greatly improved her English skills.

"Similar cases have been reported before," Deng Hongwei, one of the hospital's rehabilitation doctors, told reporters, "when bilingual patients suffer brain damage, they can lose the ability to speak one language but speak the other language very well."

In a similar case, a 38 year old woman in the United Kingdom is still receiving rehabilitation treatment after suffering a migraine over three years ago that resulted in Foreign Accent Syndrome, causing her to speak with a (dubious) Chinese accent.

Woman stabs boyfriend 31 times after he says ex's name in his sleep

Today in totally reasonable reactions: a woman in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province stabbed her boyfriend 31 times when he said another woman's name in his sleep.

According to Xinhua, Hong Hui was lying next to her sleeping boyfriend late at night when she heard him murmur another woman's name. She fell into a rage and stabbed him 31 times, she then fell asleep herself, snuggling with the corpse until morning.

Speaking in court, Hong "expressed deep remorse" and said she met the victim in high school and dated throughout university. The two were planning to marry.

Passengers die after driver is distracted by them having sex in the back seat

A couple was killed in a fiery car crash on the Hubei-Jiangxi highway when their driver was distracted by them having sex on the back seat and drove the vehicle into the back of a lorry.

According to Xinhua, 31 year old Zhang Zhangsheng became so distracted by his employer having sex with a woman in the back of his van while on highway G45 between Hubei and Jiangxi late last year that he rear-ended a truck in front of him, causing the vehicle to catch on fire.

Both Zhang's boss, Liu Xifeng and the woman he was with, Chen Hairong, died in the ensuing fire, but Zhang survived. He was later charged with negligent manslaughter by Anfu prosecutors.

This month a couple were snapped having sex in the back seat of a Shanghai taxi, though fortunately the driver was able to pay attention to the road and did not crash.