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.
EMS later arrived on the scene, and the woman revealed the wound, which had been wrapped in her white rain jacket. The jacket had large red stains surrounding the injured arm. The victim appeared to have several lacerations on her left forearm, and it was severely swollen, the incident report said.
Once the woman was secured in the ambulance, officers canvassed the area but were unable to make contact with the two individuals and the dog, according to the report.
Officer Sean Godejohn, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section, said there are no updates to the case, but he “patrols Waveny almost every day” and is “actively looking for anyone who matches the description of the suspect.”
The dog owner can face civil liability, infractions, and their dog will be quarantined, according to Godejohn.