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The head of Animal Control in New Canaan for the past eight years, Officer Allyson Halm, is set to retire this summer, officials say. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved the hiring of Sean Godejohn as her successor in the New Canaan Police Department position. A graduate of Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Godejohn […]
Here’s the cat. Photo courtesy of New Canaan Police Animal Control
The cat, who may have been abandoned, first came to the attention of authorities June 21, when a Summer Street father and son concerned about the animal’s welfare tried to put her in a carrier and got bit, according to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section.
While the father and son underwent a series of rabies vaccines as a precaution, police tried to catch the cat and bring her into the town’s animal shelter for a period of quarantine, Halm said.
Police say a dog found roaming in New Canaan earlier this month has been reunited with its owner one year after the animal went missing.
The husky while in the care of police after a New Canaan couple rescued him Feb. 6, 2021. He was found running in and out of traffic on White Oak Shade Road. Image courtesy of New Canaan Police Department
The young male husky found Feb. 6 on White Oak Shade Road is back with his owner in Windsor after that individual presented photos and paper work to authorities, according to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department Animal Control section.
Bobcats on a Marvin Ridge Road property, December 2020. Photo published with owner s permission
Three bobcats were spotted this week on Marvin Ridge Road the sixteenth sighting of the species this year, according the to New Canaan Police Department’s Animal Control section.
The trio likely is composed of a mother bobcat and her two kittens, Officer Allyson Halm said.
“There is a lot of good habitat,” Halm said, referring to the Hoyt Swamp, which runs between Marvin Ridge Road and Route 123 just north of the Merritt Parkway. “They tend to hide away, though sightings seem to be more common now.”