Late in 2014, the Cortez family adopted a rescued coon hound for a family pet. The family loved the dog and she regularly slept with the kids over the past year. On January 2nd, the dog reacted very uncharacteristically to their son and St. Louis Cardinals’ fan Ethan, while he was returning to bed and bit his face lacerating his upper and lower lips.
“I remember standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at my wife and son, both covered in blood,” recalls Jotham, Ethan’s father. Horrified, he bolted up the stairs, grabbed a washcloth and began applying pressure to stop the bleeding.