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st weekender saturday may 2 1998 p 3 courtney like a magnet in class mike adler staff reporter courtney trempe who spent her last day greeting fellow students was like a magnet in her grade 2 classroom her teacher said yesterday she was attracting everybody always positive always smiling nathalie robert recalled at dickson hill public school she liked to read she liked to write she was artistic too on wednesday the friendly stouf- fville girl who loved animals stood by her classroom door in the small french immersion school and welcomed visi tors to a display on dinosaurs or ani- maux prehistoriques later that afternoon she was dead the victim of a sudden dog attack on thursday children who knew the eight year old used a stuffed toy lion they called simba to say things and ask questions they couldnt say to anyone else dealing with loss from left teacher nathalie v robert eliza beth sampson arid gameron sauder bothof the boards tragic response team talk to staff reporter mike adler about helping students cope with the loss of their classmate with members of a response team sent by the district public school board her classmates sat in a circle of life on the floor learned what happened and expressed grief at losing a girl robert called the sunshine of our classroom on the blackboard theyrepeated her name in chalk and drew her face and her hair courtney you are my best friend one child wrote courtney was a very special child as far as being active and helpful said glenn campbell principal of the school with 225 pupils from stouf- fville and unionville on thursday the stuffed lion was put at the front of the classroom gradual ly the students went up and started to put materials related to courtney around simba recalled elizabeth sampson a behavioural specialist who was there they made this little corner for her she said of the collection of- art notebooks and other favourite please see page 16 no one will ever forget local tragedy residents from page 1 don said these situations are rare but they do occur he said you have to be very careful with any dog around young children but especially large guardtype dogs resident sheila mcleod said she could empathize strongly with every one involved as a onetime dog owner and some one who has grandchildren i am always very nervouswhen dogs espe cially large ones are around i feel par ticularly sorry about the tragedy here because it was no ones fault it wasnt an irresponsible dog owner and i cant think of anyone who wouldnt be extremely upset over what happened i dont know what to say its so sad for the parents of the little girl and for the dog owners said les broadbent i cant imagine having to deal with either side of it the hardship that these people are going through is so multifaceted observed frank may its so tragic for the family that lost their daughter howcould you ever replace a child and for the dog owners they have to deal with the fact their dog killed a lit- tie girl but it was still their family dog and theyve had it for five years so youve got really mixed emotions there as well i am very saddened by this said charlerie jones its a tragedy beyond speaking for everyone involved and no one assumes that anyone will forget this or get over it because the lives that have been affected are altered forever dog on death row mosley a 120pound bullmastiff who fatally wounded eightyearold courtney trempe is being quarantined by animal control in georgina and will be put to sleep by lethal injection inlo days the owners have agreed to his fate photo by steve somerville b ul i mastiffs known f o r strong jaws lorraine ogrady correspondent bullmastiffs and any other breed of working dog are not meant to be pets arid should never be handled by amateurs or children says one of the worlds leading experts on application of working dogs jerry cudahy s com ments come after a 130- pound bullmastiff grabbed hold of 8-year- old courtney trempes throat wednesday killing the young girl this is an enormous tragedy stouffvilles cudahy said people generally dont realize the potential an animal has bullmastiffs are gen erally veiy laid back and gen tle dogs who dont present themselves as aggressive ani mals he added but all animals have natural instincts that can lead to an attack there was no way the family couid known what might set the dog off cudahy said these are dogs were talking about theyre not human beings they cant be rational ized with the bullmastiff was originally used as a guard dog to ward off poachers the game wardens would set the dogs loose in the middle of the night to search for poachers they were ideal because they were so quiet theyd just sneak up on the poachers and bite them in the rear end cudahy these are clogs were talking about theyre not human beings they cant be rationalized with dog expert jerry cudahy said and theyd just hold them there until the game warden caught tip the poachers could nt move atallmastiffs are known for their very strong jaws the breed was also used in south africa to guard the dia mond riiines against miners sneaking back in at night to steal diamonds but those dogs were trained to kill no police force would v use a bullmastiff as a police dog cudahy said the main purpose of a police dog is for tracking and on occasion pro- tection mastiffs are too unpre dictable cudahy added that all dogs have the potential to bite not just bullmastiffs even a little chig huahua has the capability to bite the only difference is that the bull mastiff has the strength to kill and maybe a chi- huahua would leave the victim heeding a few stitches cudahy said god i wish thaf little girl just needed a few stitches for more please turn to the opinion page 4 and page 16 mi m suiitbtbta markv1lle 4072 hwy 7 4707044 markham wwwmarkvlllttoixlincom ehailaddressmabkvilleec0mpuservecom brand new 1998 lincoln navigator wclude j f r tires swo plates rear ac cd changer 20wattsouh0systeiiihuch more best price 0r2yrplan m 559 599v brand new 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