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...not having his dog leashed or fenced in  ???:

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SC postal worker runs over dog and keeps driving in video, owners say. See for yourself
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Yogi is 8 ½ years old. He’s an Aussie German Shepherd mix who loves to sit near the house and watch the few cars and trucks that go by on the Gouge family’s long dirt driveway on 22 acres outside Walterboro.

Most days he gets some extra pets and maybe a treat or two as packages are delivered.

Then came Monday.

Yogi was sitting in his usual spot when the mail carrier came by.

Next thing Paula Gouge knew he came inside and laid down on the bathroom floor.

Moments later a neighbor called and said Yogi had been hit by the mail carrier’s truck. She did not stop. The neighbor saw it all as she sat on her porch.

Gouge looked at her Ring camera and she saw it all, too. Warning, the video may be upsetting to some viewers.

She checked on Yogi and saw he was bleeding.

They rushed him to the emergency vet and learned his hip was dislocated and femur broken. He had a spinal injury.

“He is 90 pounds of all-good boy,” she said on the gofundme page set up to pay what is likely going to be a $10,000 bill for surgery and other expenses.

Her husband Rodney said, “He’s my joker. He makes you laugh.”

“Yogi has never chased a car,” Paula Gouge said in an interview Thursday with The State.

She’s not sure why he did Monday. The carrier had delivered packages, went to a neighbor’s and was on her way back out of the Gouge’s property. They own both sides of the driveway and the neighbor has an easement to use it.

Rodney Gouge reported the incident to the United States Postal Service.

“We haven’t heard squat,” he said.

A spokeswoman for the Southern Area Corporate Communications Office of the Postal Service told The State on Thursday that, “The Postal Service strives to always provide the best possible service to our valued customers. It is disappointing when, on rare occasions, we fall short of that goal.”

She said Walterboro Post Office management has addressed the situation with the letter carrier, who was not named



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