NORTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Police in Norton are investigating after a dog was found shot on Thursday.
Officers responded to a report that a dog that had been reported missing was found in a wooded area on the Norton/Attleboro town line off Old Dean Street, according to Norton police.
The owner reported that it appeared the dog had been impaled by a stick, and when the owner carried the dog out of the woods to waiting police officers they observed the dog to have a laceration to its body.
The owner later told Norton Animal Control that he discovered a bullet in one of the dog’s wounds.
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