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Dog Bites Woman, 87, at Waveny House

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A German shepherd dog about 10 days ago bit an 87-year-old Ridgefield woman at Waveny House, records show. 

At about 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 22, the victim called Animal Control Officer Sean Godejohn to report a bite that had occurred earlier that Friday, according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. At about 10 a.m., the woman “was bit by a dog at Waveny House,” Godejohn wrote in his report. The victim “told this officer that there were two German shepherds at Waveny House and one of them bit her left thigh,” the report said. The dogs “were accompanied by two males in their twenties, and an older female,” it said.

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Dog Bites Child on Hillcrest Avenue

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New Canaan Police cited and fined a local woman this month after her dog was accused of running off-property and biting a boy. At around 8:15 a.m. on July 3 (a Thursday), an officer met with a New Canaan man after his son had been bit by a “one year old, black, male Labrador Retriever mix type dog”, according to an incident report written by Animal Control Officer Sean Godejohn and obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. The boy’s father told Officer Nicole Vartuli that the incident occurred on Hillcrest Avenue, “when a dog came off the property and bit his son, leaving a scratch on his left arm,” the report said. According to the report, the dog’s owner told Vartuli and Godejohn that her dog left her property and jumped on the victim, but doesn’t believe the animal bit him. The dog, “Beau,” has been “vaccinated for rabies with New Canaan Veterinary Hospital until July 25,” Godejohn’s report said.

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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.

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Rosebrook Road Dog Bites Local Woman 3 Times

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A Rosebrook Road dog finished a home quarantine last week after biting a New Canaan woman out for a walk. It happened at about 11:25 a.m. on April 17 (a Thursday), according to an incident report written by Officer Sean Godejohn, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section. The victim told Godejohn that she’d been out walking “when she came upon another person walking a dog on leash,” he wrote in the report, obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. 

The victim “was going to say hi to the dog when the dog bit her three times,” it said. “Once to her inner thigh, once to her left shin and once to her left hamstring.”

The woman told police she didn’t need medical care, the report said. She told police where the biting dog lived, on Rosebrook Road.

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New Canaan Woman Bit in Hand During Dog Attack

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A New Canaan dog finished a 10-day home quarantine last weekend after attacking another canine passing by his house, records show. Police on March 25 received a report from a local woman saying she’d been walking with her son and dog on Cedar Lane at about 6 p.m. “when a black lab ran out from behind a home and started attacking her dog,” according to an incident report obtained by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. The attacking dog “was dragging a retractable leash and a young boy came running after him,” the report said. The woman “asked the boy to grab the leash but he did not respond,” according to the report, filed by New Canaan Police Officer Ryan Nero. She  then “tried to separate the two dogs and at some point, got bit on her right thumb,” the report said.