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“Horrendous experience” for Rosie Pet owner wants change to trap-line policy after family dog caught in trap
C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
As reported earlier this week in the Bulletin, the supply of flu vaccine in the Interior Health region is tightening. Due to that tightened supply, IH will no PHOTOS COURTESY SHANNON FRASER
Above, Rosie caught in the trap, unable to move, and below, the trap after Rosie was freed. clamp. She couldn’t move — the trap was tied to a tree. She was breathing but I couldn’t get the trap to release. She was wagging her tail a little when she saw me. “Then she moved a bit to relieve the pressure and I think she passed out. But I was so upset, I thought she had died.” Shannon left Rosie and went home and called the Conservation Officer, her husband and her mother. Her family arrived before the CO. Shannon wanted to go back to the
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Flu vaccine only at health centres With supply short, Interior Health will not be providing pharmacies with vaccine
C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
Shannon and Ken Fraser, who live at St. Mary Lake, love their dog Rosie, a three-year-old Shepherd/Siberian Husky cross. They almost lost Rosie this week and want to sound the warning to other pet owners who walk their dogs on Crown land, or along forest service roads. What Shannon calls a “horrendous experience” began on Monday when she took Rosie for a run on River Road towards Cranbrook. She explains that she often skis or bikes with Rosie, but on days when she can’t, she lets Rosie out to run behind her car. “I go out where there’s no traffic and let her out. She trots along. On Monday we were returning and were about three kilometres from our house when Rosie disappeared into the bush. She didn’t come back out.” Shannon stopped the vehicle and followed Rosie’s tracks into the trees beside the road. “I found her with her head in a trap, right behind her ears,” she said. Thankfully there were no spikes; it was a vice
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site. At that point, believing Rosie had died, she wanted to get photos before the trapper showed up. “When I got there, she was in a different position. I called her name and she moved. She was still alive. I had my mom come down and sit with her and I raced home to get my husband. “We were working on getting the vice off Rosie’s head when the CO showed up. Between two men squeezing as hard as they could, we finally got her lose.” See ROSIE, page 4
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Invermere man died of hypothermia, court hears
The two-week trial of Brian Panebianco gets underway in Cranbrook Supreme Court SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Cory Jarock died of hypothermia after being kicked out of a house party in Invermere in April 2012, according to
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longer be providing pharmacies with the vaccine for publicly-funded shots. “Interior Health does provide community vaccine providers, like pharmacies, with vaccine for people who meet provincial criteria and are eligible for a publicly-funded (ie. free) flu shot,” IH Communications Officer Karl Hardt told the Bulletin. “However, IH is unable to provide community vaccine providers (e.g. pharmacists) with influenza vaccine at this time.
the prosecution in the trial of Brian Panebianco. The 25-year-old Invermere man is charged with manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, robbery and assault causing bodily harm in the death of 32-year-old Jarock, who was found deceased April 3, 2012 in the driveway of a home in Invermere’s Tunnacliffe Heights neighbourhood.
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