Barnegat Police have put residents on alert after two pit-bulls ran out from a mobile home area on Redwood Drive and attacked a woman's dog while she was walking it on a leash.
Police in Atlantic Highlands have given a resident a summons for having a potentially dangerous dog after their pet escaped its fenced backyard and attacked another dog.
While trying to locate a man wanted by Manchester Police for violating a final restraining order and stalking, a Lakewood Police Officer discharged his service weapon at an aggressive pitbull wounding it in the process.
A police dog who was on the scene of an active investigation this afternoon in Mantoloking was injured and is currently receiving treatment for those injuries, but the dog was NOT shot, Ocean County Sheriff Mike Mastronardy tells WOBM News.
The country's largest pet adoption event is happening on Saturday. Several Ocean County rescue organizations are participating in "Clear The Shelter"s Day.
The Long Branch man wanted for allegedly abdanoning the dog now affectionally renamed "River" has turned himself into police, in an announcement on Facebook from the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office.