Allyson Halm

‘Very Hard To Watch’: Deer Dragging ‘Leghold Trap’ Seen in New Canaan

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Officials say they’re concerned for the welfare of a deer that appears to be dragging a “leghold trap” from one of its hind legs. The young buck dragging the trap was spotted Tuesday on Pequot Lane, according to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section. “He wasn’t moving too quickly,” Halm told NewCanaanite.com. “It was a pretty large trap and you could see the leg was swollen compared to the other one.”

The traps use a footplate and curved jaws that snap onto animals that spring them. Halm said the traps are not supposed to be placed where deer can get into them.

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Roaming Peacock Returned to Ponus Ridge Home [UPDATED]

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Update 12 p.m. Wednesday

The owner of this peacock saw the story and the bird is now back in a pen at its Ponus Ridge home, according to Officer Allyson Halm of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section. The resident has four peacocks in all, she said. Original story

Police are urging the owner of a peacock spotted Monday afternoon wandering around a residential neighborhood in New Canaan to contact Animal Control officials about the exotic bird. The peacock was seen on Wahackme Road between Ponus Ridge and Myanos Road, according to Police Chief Leon Krolikowski. The animal eluded capture, he said.

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Animal Calls: Four Dog Bites in New Canaan

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The New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section fielded reports of four dog bites in recent weeks. The following summaries are based on NCPD incident reports obtained by NewCanaanite.com through Freedom of Information requests. ***

A woman at about 11:47 a.m. on Sept. 22 contacted Officer Allyson Halm, head of Animal Control, saying that she’d been bitten the prior week by a Wheaten terrier she was caring for on West Road while the dog’s owners were away. The woman reported the bite after being told to do so by an attorney, according to a police report.

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Police Issue $483 in Fines to New Canaan Woman Who Doesn’t Believe in Leashed Dogs

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After a third bizarre incident in two years, New Canaan Police this month issued a total of $483 in tickets to a local woman who has repeatedly asserted that she doesn’t believe in the town’s dog leash ordinance, records show. On the morning of Nov. 2, an officer with the department’s Animal Control section responded to a complaint about a woman at Irwin Park with three dogs off-leash, according to a police report. The complainant had explained to the woman that her own dog was aggressive and she feared that if approached by other canines, the animal would attack, the report said. Yet instead of leashing her dogs at the point, the woman told the complainant not to worry, that dogs shouldn’t be on leashes and they only fight because they’re so tethered, it said.

Allyson Halm

Animal Calls: Roaming Dogs, Bite on Briscoe, Failures To License and New Homes

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Here’s a roundup of recent activity for the Animal Control section of the New Canaan Police Department:

On Oct. 24, police picked up a Novia Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever for the second time in eight days. The senior dog’s owner on Lambert Road was issued $92 and $75 tickets, for allowing a dog to roam and failure to license, respectively. The tan-and-white dog originally had been impounded on Oct. 16. 

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A 10-year-old Australian Shepherd dog bit an electrician on Briscoe Road on the morning of Oct.