The Animal Control section of the New Canaan Police Department last month issued a $136 infraction summons to a Stamford man who has repeatedly allowed his dog to roam off-leash at Waveny.
The ticket was finally issued on the morning of July 6, when Animal Control Officer Allyson Halm saw the Rhodesian Ridgeback off-leash again near the area formerly known as the “cornfields.” The man has had multiple warnings in the past, police said.
Here are other recent animal-related incidents in New Canaan:
Last Monday, a motor vehicle struck and killed a goose on Pocconock Trail. The call originally came in from a passerby as an injured goose but the animal was dead when police arrived on scene, officials said. The motorist who struck the goose wasn’t the person who contacted authorities.
A sick raccoon was dispatched recently after trapping itself inside a Metro-North Railroad power grid apparatus off of Pine Street, near the train station downtown. Several people contacted police about the raccoon, which had been seen on Seminary Street, then crossed the property of businesses on Elm Street and the Lumberyard Lot. Police shot and killed the sick animal, and then Metro-North retrieved its body, officials said. The animal had no known contact with humans, so it’s brain wasn’t tested for rabies.
Finally, two dogs attacked a woodchuck on Carter Street on July 27, injuring the animal so badly that police had to kill it, officials said. The woodchuck later tested negative for rabies.