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Dog Electrocuted On Charlestown Sidewalk

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Jan 9, 2006 6:30 pm US/Eastern

Dog Electrocuted On Charlestown Sidewalk

CHARLESTOWN (CBS4) ― Another dog has been killed by stray voltage on a Boston sidewalk.

Katherine Bannon was walking 'Killian', her 6-year-old lab mix, on Sunday night when the dog was electrocuted while stepping on a metal sidewalk cover on Chelsea Street.

"She's a 75-pound dog, and it definitely demolished her," says Bannon. "It was very traumatic and will take me a very long time to get over it."

The city says the electrical current came from a street light wire that was damaged due to salt and corrosion.

Last year city officials in Boston formed a task force after several dogs were shocked from voltage coming through manhole covers.

A distraught Bannon told our Pauline Chiou, " I hope this never happens to anyone else. She was my best friend...I don't want anyone else to have to go through this."

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