Richard Sala - Delphine 2 - p26 tier3

The previous owner asked Richard if he was ever attacked by a vicious dog and received the following answer:

"I have a vivid memory - from when I was a kid - of an actual "mad" dog (actually foaming at the mouth), a German shepherd, chasing one of the neighborhood kids (poor Timmy Howieson) down the street as he screamed in terror. The dog seemed to hone on him, ignoring everything else, like a guided missile, and wasn't satisfied until it bit the kind in the ass as he tried to outrun it. The dog was a neighbor's and I suspect it was probably severely maltreated. It hated all the neighborhood kids with a frightening passion and would go into a mad frenzy when any of us walked by the yard where they kept him chained up. When it happened, a bunch of us were standing on the street when somebody visiting the neighbor accidentally held the door open and the dog bolted out right at us kids. I guess Tim was the only one that ran, so the dog chose to go after him. We all stood frozen watching them run down the street until they were out of sight! Anyway -- since you asked!-- I was definitely thinking about that when I came up with that sequence in the story."