The owners have surrender the dog to the city

CLOVERDALE (NEWS 1130) – A Surrey bylaw officer suffered serious injuries after responding to a call about a dog at large Tuesday afternoon.

Public Safety Manager Jas Rehal says the incident took place in a Cloverdale neighbourhood near the Langley border.

“The officer is still in hospital with very severe injuries to her arm,” he says. “She was bitten on her arm and hand and was scratched up, so a pretty severe bite.”

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He says the officer was taken to hospital Tuesday night and remains there.

Rehal says the dog is believed to be a Husky that escaped someone’s yard.

“Usually with dangerous dogs or vicious dogs we usually know about them because they’re on our radar, but this one we had no other complaints about it,” he adds.

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That’s when they received the call about a dog running around the neighbourhood, but he notes there was never any mention about it being a dangerous dog.

“Our officers typically do work alone,” he says. “On this case here because the call wasn’t necessarily that there was a vicious animal on the loose so she attended and then, unfortunately, it turned sideways right away.”

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He says the owners surrendered the dog over to the city and it will most likely be put down.

“When an animal displays this type of vicious behaviour and the owners have handed over to us so it’s unfortunate but it’s the best interest for public safety,” Rehal adds.

The city is now trying to figure out what led to the attack and if it needs to make any changes to its protocol.