Animal 411
New Canaan Woman: Wild Turkey Attacked Me and My Chihuahua
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A New Canaan woman told police that a large, male wild turkey charged out of the woods near Briscoe and Cross Ridge Roads on a recent afternoon, menacing her and her little dog until her husband created a window of escape by grabbing a stick and whacking the big bird away. The harrowing incident unfolded quickly on a Tuesday afternoon two weeks ago, according to Fran Smith of Cross Ridge Road. Smith had been out walking an accustomed neighborhood loop together with her husband and Moomoo, a rescued Chihuahua about five years old. “I didn’t know what it was,” Smith recalled. “At first I thought it was a wild pig or something.