Dogs roaming Norway House 'going to kill somebody,' grandmother says after girl mauled
CBC
WARNING: This story contains details about a dog attack.
Heavenly Monias says she's been bombarded with questions about the story behind her scars since she got back home to her northern Manitoba First Nation earlier this month.
"They say, 'What happened to your cheek? What happened to your arm? What happened? Can you tell me the story?'" Heavenly said.
Although the nine-year-old usually isn't comfortable sharing the story of how she was mauled by 10 dogs in Norway House Cree Nation last month, she detailed what happened to CBC News this week.
She was walking home after going out to look for her younger brother on the night of Aug. 15, when she noticed a pack of dogs, she said.
Then they started to chase her.
She'll never forget running from the dogs before she fell to the ground, she said.
"That's when the dogs got me and started biting me, scratching me."
Her cheek was gashed, and she was also bitten on her chest and arm. She remembers crying and spitting out blood before a passerby chased the dogs away.
"I was so hurt."
The nine-year-old was flown to Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre, where her cheek was stitched up from her ear down to her mouth.
She's still wearing a cast because she can't straighten her arm properly yet, and she's been travelling back and forth to Winnipeg for physical therapy.
Lorraine Trout, Heavenly's grandmother, says Norway House captured some of the dogs running free in the community in the first days after the attack.
But there are still many dogs running around the First Nation, and leadership isn't doing enough to stop them, she said.
