On August 29, after Irene, Monroe's Armando Aversa and his 18-month old black lab went to visit his son, Aversa, Jr., on Old Coach Road. Let out of the truck, "Rocky" took off into a field after the sheep.
Two sheep jumped the fence with Rocky in pursuit and Aversa in pursuit of Rocky. Rocky was retrieved, but the sheep were not.
By the next morning Rocky was gone again. Then, the sheep were sighted on Fan Hill Road.
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Both Rocky and the sheep were eventually corralled by alert Monroe police who spied them in the children's play area among the apparatus at St. Jude Church on Route 111. The sheep were soon trucked home.
Caught with the goods after his three-mile flight, Rocky, however, was booked at Animal Control. He was finally released into the custody of a sheepish Aversa a few hours later who insisted the sheepnapping was all a mistake. Rocky, still a puppy, only wanted to play, he said.
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No charges were filed.
From the Blotter
It was a quiet week as Monroe residents and wildlife prepared to hunker down in the path of Irene. Before the storm a resident called in to report raccoons invading a garage on Summerville Drive, and another one reported a dead opossum near 47 Fan Hill Road. A good Samaritan reported a dog locked in a car behind a Dunkin Donuts on Main Street.
Post-Irene there have been only two reports of wildlife. Coyote sightings came in from Turkey Roost and Pinto Lane.
On the domestic front, pre-Irene, cats and dogs began to run.
Aug. 23- a Captain's Hill Road homeowner reported that her "inside” cat had been missing for two days. Less than an hour later a desperate Newtown woman called to report a missing cat on Walnut Tree Hill Road. She was house-sitting and the gray and white feline, with no collar, escaped out the window in the night.
On Founder’s Way, a Monroe woman found a gray-and-tan male cat about six-months old.
That same day an owner reported his dog missing from Wayne Road. Another resident secured two running dogs in the Purdy Hill-Arbor Road area and requested they be picked up by Animal Control.
Aug. 24- a Trumbull resident on Roseview Court reported she was holding two stray dogs — a golden retriever and a husky.
Aug. 25- a Monroe homeowner called to say she was feeding and holding a dog that occasionally visited her whenever it gets out.
A happy dog owner on Pachaug Trail called to report that after two days Daisy had found her way home.
There were no calls during Tropical Storm Irene Saturday and Sunday.
On Monday, Belle, the resident tuxedo cat at Animal Control proudly caught her first mouse.
Remember. Monroe’s creatures were here first. Respect them. Enjoy them. And if you need help with them, call Officer Ed Risko at Animal Control (203)452-3760. In an emergency call 911.
