New Canaan Police Department
Dog Bites Woman in Waveny Park
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New Canaan Police recently responded to a dog bite of a 52-year-old woman in Waveny Park. At about 4:40 p.m. on June 28, New Canaan Police Department officers were dispatched to Waveny on a report of a dog bite injury to a Norwalk woman, according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. Through a man nearby who was able to translate, the police learned that the woman had been strolling on the east side of the park, near Anderson Pond, when she walked near two older men with a “big white dog,” the report said. The dog had been on a leash but was not contained and bit the woman’s left arm, the incident report said. After being bitten, the victim walked to her vehicle in the parking lot near the girls softball field and contacted the police, according to the report.