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Animal Control Roundup: Richmond Hill Road Dog Keeps Getting out through Fence with Broken Latch

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The New Canaan Police Department Animal Control unit has ticketed the owner of a German shepherd-mix dog that got off property for the fourth time in recent months. The 4-year-old mix keeps getting out through a fence gate whose latch is broken at the owners’ Richmond Hill Road property, Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said. “He runs through a neighbor’s yard and has been found on Weed Street,” Kleinschmitt said. The owners have four dogs in all and rent their house here, Kleinschmitt said. They were fined for allowing a dog to roam following this latest incident, at around 9:40 a.m. on Nov.

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New Canaan Police Locate Dog That Bit Local Woman, Cleared of Rabies

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Update 12 p.m.

Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said that police found this dog and its owner, and that the animal is up-to-date on vaccinations. It will undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine at an area vet prior to returning home. Original Article

Police are looking for any information about a dog described as a golden retriever mix that bit a woman near Benedict Hill and Evergreen Roads in New Canaan around 11 a.m. Tuesday. When the woman pulled her car over and got out to see whether the dog had a tag on it, the animal bit her, according to Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt. Because it’s unknown whether the dog was up-to-date on vaccinations, the woman has had to start a series of rabies shots, Kleinschmitt said.

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Unlicensed Dog Walks to New Canaan Police Department

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Police discovered two unlicensed dogs in a Church Street home after one of them apparently walked out an open front door and made its way to department headquarters. A passerby spotted the small white Maltese-type dog walking along the sidewalk on South Avenue by the New Canaan Police Department, “looked at the tag and brought it the Church Street address on the tag,” Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said. “The door of the home was open, so they put the dog inside, closed the door and then called us,” Kleinschmitt said. It happened around 11 a.m. on Nov. 17, according to a police report.

Around Town

Rare ‘Stabyhoun’ Quarantined after Biting Dog Walker’s Arm

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A rare hunting dog from the Netherlands is under home quarantine through Tuesday after biting its walker’s arm and hand when the human tried to intervene in a dog-on-dog scrap, officials say. Police on Nov. 11 responded to a call at Lantern Ridge Road after a dog walker trying to separate two fighting Stabyhoun-breed dogs was bit “pretty seriously” on his left arm and hand, according to the department’s Animal Control unit. It happened at about 4:55 p.m. when two Stabys that live together began fighting in their walker’s car and he tried to separate them, Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said. “The dog is not aggressive,” she said.

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On Oenoke Ridge Road, Licensed Professional Hired to Kill Raccoon in Garage

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An Oenoke Ridge Road woman last week hired a licensed Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator to kill a raccoon in her garage, officials say. The resident originally had contacted the New Canaan Police Department Animal Control unit at 8:50 a.m. on Nov. 6 to put the animal down, according to a police report. But since the animal was perfectly healthy, there was nothing that Animal Control could do, Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said. Though a resident is allowed to protect himself or herself—say, by shooting a raccoon on their property that’s suspected of being sick, as a Lukes Wood Road man did in September (Animal Control prefers it if you phone them first)—a permit is needed to kill a healthy animal.