Police convergence. It was an unusually heavy police presence for an injured dog call, but police have been especially concerned about the house where the dog is kept. A series of recent drug incidents have been traced to the address. Images: Steve Lunde
Although hurt, dog revived and was led home
LEWISTON, Minn. — For the second day in a row, a young white pit bull-terrier mix was trotting merrily down the U.S. Highway 14 center line. This time he was hit. The impact stunned the guy unconscious. A passing motorist stopped and coaxed him back to life. Meanwhile, a Lewiston police officer arrived with lights and siren, then two sheriff’s vehicles, and then a state police cruiser – an unusual police convergence for a dog being hit – even though traffic control was needed on the busy Winona-Rochester corridor. More to the point, the dog had begun its jaunts down Highway 14 two days in a row from a house suspected as a drug flophouse. Amid the commotion on the highway, about 5 p.m., the dog’s master, a house-sitter, emerged from the 23121 address and led the dog, now recovered and standing, back to the house. The pit bull, still unleashed, was on his own power, albeit foaming a little blood from perhaps from an internal injury. The house-sitter went inside and locked the door. A motorist who was first to happen on the accident took he dog two miles to a veterinarian in Lewiston, said Winona County sheriff’s investigator Mark Dungy.
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Ambulatory. Moments after impact.