Police issued a northeastern New Canaan man a $75 fine last week after his one-year-old bullmastiff got off-property and harassed a woman walking on Colonial Road.
It happened late on the morning of Nov. 10, as the woman was walking her little Havanese on the road, which runs in a sort of semicircle off of upper Valley Road.
The fine, from the Animal Control section of the New Canaan Police Department, was for nuisance dog.
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A cat is under a mandatory 2-week home quarantine this week after biting its owner’s teenage daughter in the leg, Animal Control officials say.
It happened on Halloween night and police learned later of the incident.
The Calico cat is doing fine, Animal Control Officer Allyson Halm said. Calicos “generally aren’t known for being prima donnas but for some reason they can be ornery,” she said.
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Good news here: A 13-year-old English Springer Spaniel that had gone missing from its Weed Street home last Tuesday turned up severely thin but alive and OK some four days later.
The male canine had been let out and may have had a senile dog moment in wandering off-property and through an area that’s known to be home to coyotes and other animals, and did so during an especially cold week with plenty of rain, Halm said.
He was found curled up under a tree on a Wahackme Road property by a caretaker who was taken by surprise on coming upon the animal and seeing his condition, Halm said.
The dog is back home now, she said.