A 70-year-old Portland man was bitten in the neck by his dog, a two-and-a-half-year-old mastiff, in April. The man died from his injuries and the dog was euthanized the next day.
Records show that on the night of Saturday, April 11, police were called to the Southeast Portland home where Frederick Shew lived with two housemates.
According to officials, housemates told Portland police officers that they heard a “loud thud” and went to check on the sound.
Shew’s housemate, Kenneth Miller, told The Oregonian/OregonLive that after he went to bed, he heard a thump outside his door.
He then found Shew’s dog, an intact male named Thor that Miller estimated weighed around 160 pounds, shaking Shew’s neck “like a ragdoll.”
“He was sitting there,” Miller said, “and blood was shooting out of his neck.”
Immediately Miller tried to save his housemate, who Miller estimated weighed less than 100 pounds.
Miller was able to wrestle Thor away from Shew, he later told county officials, and put the dog in his bedroom.
Then, Miller told officials, he called for other housemates to wake up and get towels to try to stop the bleeding.
Another housemate called 9-1-1.
“I was beating the dog off him and trying to get Fred taken of,” Miller said. “I was just too late.”
“He bled out right in front of me,” Miller said. “His last words were ‘Don’t call 9-1-1.’”
Miller speculated that Shew didn’t want 9-1-1 called because he didn’t want to lose Thor, who he had purchased for $3,500 as a 4-month-old puppy two years earlier.
But Miller said he knew the dog was dangerous. Just a month before Thor killed Shew, the dog “about took my nose off my face,” Miller said.
Before that, Miller said Thor, “bit me through the hand.”
Miller told officials about those incidents, which were not previously reported, the day after Shew died.
“Fred wouldn’t get him neutered. He wouldn’t take him to obedience classes,” Miller said. “He couldn’t even walk the damn thing, he was just too strong.”
Miller said it felt like forever before paramedics arrived at the Southeast Portland home.
After they arrived, medics pronounced Shew dead.
Multnomah County Animal Services officials went to the house the next day to pick up Thor and took statements from the housemates. While officials were picking the dog up, he managed to escape and Miller had to chase him down.
Ultimately, they were able to load Thor into a county vehicle.
They also contacted Shew’s daughter, who gave county officials permission to euthanize the dog.
Thor was transported to Multnomah County Animal Services offices, and after the Oregon State Veterinarian Dr. Emilio DeBess and animal services director Wade Sadler approved his euthanization, the dog was euthanized.
“There’s not much to say,” Miller said. “I still see him every day when I wake up. It was just a sad night.”
-- Lizzy Acker
503-221-8052, lacker@oregonian.com, @lizzzyacker
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