A sixth grader is recovering from a dog bite to her face
Posted By: reid Kilmer
rkilmer@klkntv.com
She has more than 100 stitches along her face and inside her mouth but 11-year–old Rylie Kidwiler is still in good spirits.
The 6th grader suffered a dog bite last Saturday while visiting a friend. They were in the yard when she went up to the family’s three–year–old Pit Bull, named Blue.
Rylie said, “I just started petting him and he jumped up and bit me.”
Rylie’s grandmother, Glori Wolfe, says she rushed to the hospital when she received that shocking phone call that her granddaughter had been hurt.
Wolfe said, “Once I got in there I was horrified with the situation, but trying not to cry trying not to make her cry so I just had to be as strong as I could.”
The manager for Animal Control tells us the dog had no violent history and is current on its shots.
Blue is now in the hands of the Capital Humane Society.
Despite the attack, that has kept Riley out of school this week, she doesn’t want to see him put down.
Rylie says, “I don’t want him to die though.”
Her grandmother, on the other hand does.
Wolfe said, “I would prefer to see the dog put down because I don’t want to see that happen to anyone again. This has been very traumatic for all of us.”
Animal Control tells Channel 8 Eyewitness News the dog will ultimately have to be euthanized because of the incident.
Rylie says she wants to go back to school, she’s just waiting for her stitches to come out.
She’ll see her doctor on Wednesday.
