CLINTON TWP. — A dog belonging to a 13-year-old boy died after it was mauled by a buck, police said today.
Police were dispatched to a wooded area off Grayrock Road around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday on the report of someone screaming for help. When Patrolman Harry Bugal arrived, he met with the boy, who lives nearby. The boy, who was upset and crying, told Bugal he was walking his dog, Mango, when a “large buck” approached the two, attacked the dog and threw it in the river. The boy had pulled Mango from the river; when Bugal arrived, he found it lying on its right side and it was “severely injured,” according to police.
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Share 9 Comments Bugal, the boy’s mother, and Clinton Township Animal Control Officer Doug Rolle used a blanket to carry Mango out of the woods and into the bed of Rolle’s pickup truck. Rolle took the dog to the Riverside Veterinarian office on Blossom Hill Road, but the dog died after surgery.
The boy told police he often walked the dog along the river without a leash.
Police were dispatched to a wooded area off Grayrock Road around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday on the report of someone screaming for help. When Patrolman Harry Bugal arrived, he met with the boy, who lives nearby. The boy, who was upset and crying, told Bugal he was walking his dog, Mango, when a “large buck” approached the two, attacked the dog and threw it in the river. The boy had pulled Mango from the river; when Bugal arrived, he found it lying on its right side and it was “severely injured,” according to police.
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Share 9 Comments Bugal, the boy’s mother, and Clinton Township Animal Control Officer Doug Rolle used a blanket to carry Mango out of the woods and into the bed of Rolle’s pickup truck. Rolle took the dog to the Riverside Veterinarian office on Blossom Hill Road, but the dog died after surgery.
The boy told police he often walked the dog along the river without a leash.
