Dog Dies After Running Into Live Electric Wire
NEWTON (CBS) - A Newton woman is mourning the death of her pet dog after a horrible accident during their morning walk. The two-and-a-half-year-old black lab name Moki ran into a live electric wire.
A woman passing by the Hammond State Reservation heard it and called 9-1-1. "I heard a dog barking loudly, very distressed. It sounded like he was injured or in a fight, and then the dog stopped barking, and the woman started screaming."
According to NStar, sometime during this week's storm a large tree limb fell on two wires along the trail. In one of them, the automatic safety shut-off did not work.
WBZ-TV's Christina Hager reports
"A protective device, it's a fused device that would sense there's a problem, and disconnect the power on its own," explains NStar spokesman Mike Durand. "That did not happen."
Dr. Ravinder Singh is the dog's veterinarian. "She first thought the dog was having a seizure, and she had no idea that there was an electric wire there or anything, and she tried to really grab the dog thinking the dog was having a seizure, and she was electrocuted herself," he says. She felt a shock, but refused medical treatment.
Moki's owner also had a neighbor's dog along for the walk. That dog did not touch the wire, but was spooked, and ran home.
