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Sheila Tataquason was sitting in her backyard, visiting with a friend, when a dog came out of the darkness and attacked her, sinking its teeth into her hip.

Her friend, Joshua Desnomie, tried to get the dog off her. When the dog’s handler, a Saskatoon police canine officer, came into the yard, he saw two people he believed matched the description of the people he was looking for — a man had reported being robbed by a man and woman only minutes earlier at the nearby Fas Gas at 20th Street and Avenue H.

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Tataquason and Desnomie were placed under arrest and Tataquason was taken to hospital to be treated for the dog bite. They were never charged, however. The police dog apparently had picked up Tataquason’s scent because she lived in the area, not because she’d been involved in the alleged robbery.

Tataquason sued the police in small claims court, claiming $20,000 for the damages she’s suffered since the attack and arrest on Aug. 16, 2013 — not only the physical trauma from the bite, but also the emotional trauma.