A 4-year-old dog is under quarantine through Wednesday after police determined that the canine bit a local boy in the leg while roaming at the Country Club of New Canaan.
The bite occurred at about 4:30 p.m. on March 23 (a Sunday) on the golf course at CCNC, according to a police report obtained through a public records request.
There, a white female poodle mixed-breed dog named ‘Star’ bit a boy “on his leg” and damaged his pants, according to the report, filed by Officer Sean Godejohn, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section.
The boy’s mom, who informed police of the incident on the following Tuesday afternoon, told authorities that the dog’s owner works at the Country Club, the report said.
Reached by Godejohn, the dog’s owner “told this officer that he lets his dog roam on the golf course” but “did not see the incident take place,” the report said.
The owner added that “it was possible that his dog could have bitten” the boy, it said.
At the time of the bite, Star “was not currently up to date on her vaccines,” the report said, though her owner “did revaccinate” the dog “before this office called him.” (Star’s rabies vaccine, from Grove Street Veterinarian, had expired Jan. 13, the report said.)
Godejohn ordered the dog to be quarantined at a facility off-property through April 2, as allowed under state law.