Animals
Dog Bites Woman on Her Cheek
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A woman walking her own dog with a friend was passing a neighbor’s house on Homestead Road on June 12 when the neighbor’s dog ran out of the house and attacked her dog, she told police. While trying to defend her dog, the woman was bitten several times herself — including a bite on her cheek that police called “significant” — although she didn’t notice that during the confrontation, police said. Darien police gave the following account of the incident, which resulted in police orders for both dogs to be quarantined at home for two weeks:
The victim, 50, was walking in front of her neighbor’s house at about 9 a.m. when the other dog, a black Labrador Retriever, ran out. That dog’s owner later said a door was left open in the garage by a man doing construction work at the house. The Labrador attacked her dog, whch was bitten on the neck and rear legs, and when the woman tried to intervene, she was also bitten — on her left upper leg, her left shin, on two spots on her right calf and on her left cheek.