08/10/2025
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!!UPDATE!!!
It appears the Branford Police Department may have found the person responsible.
But we also wanted to provide an educational component to this because many people do not know this. There is a law in our state that you must stop, render assistance and report if you hit a dog with your vehicle (we believe it should be all animals, but anyways)
Here is the Statute: Sec. 14-226. Operator to report injury to dog. Any person who has knowledge of causing, by the operation of a motor vehicle, injury or death to a dog shall at once stop and render such assistance as may be possible, shall immediately report such injury or death to such dog's owner or such owner's representative and shall give his name, address and operator's license and registration numbers to such owner or representative or any witness or peace officer. If unable to ascertain and locate such owner or representative, such operator shall, at once, report the injury or death to a police officer, constable, state police officer or inspector of motor vehicles, to whom he shall give the location of such accident and a description of the dog. Violation of any provision of this section shall be an infraction. No operator shall be convicted under the provisions of subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of section 14-224 when such operator has caused injury or death to a dog.
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This 4-year-old fawn pug was hit by a car and killed on South Montowese St in Branford on 8/6/25 around 3:30 pm and the person who hit the dog did not stop. A gate in the backyard was left open by accident which is how the dog got out unfortunately. There is a vehicle that may have information on the incident which is a dark green or dark colored Porsche Cayenne which would have been headed in the direction of The Elks or Lenny's Restaurant.
If anyone has any information on this incident, please contact us at the animal shelter at 203-315-4125 or the Branford police Department non-emergency line at 203-481-4241.
