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.
Godejohn went there and met with a woman who identified herself as a caretaker for the property.
She told Godejohn “that she was walking the dog ‘Tag’ when the dog bit [the victim],” adding that “she did not expect ‘Tag’ to bite.”
The animal is currently vaccinated for rabies through Aug. 3 with an out-of-state veterinarian.
The dog’s owner came to the New Canaan Police Department the same day and signed a quarantine order on Tag, who remained on-property through April 27, the report said.