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KSL News/Lance Bandley ReportingApparently some utility workers out to mark the ground are spray painting more than lines on the dirt and grass. Some are also spraying dogs.
Imagine coming home from your vacation and finding your dog spray painted orange. It happened to Chris Grange.
"It got sprayed in the snout and on the eyes and down the chest and on the legs of the dog."
Grange says he took his dog to the vet because of the paint in his dogs eyes.
He says a utility worker was in the area marking the ground for construction, but what ticks off Grange is that the worker was on the other side of his six foot chain link fence.
"The dog is kinda saddened about it, you know. You can see the way he's been moping around lately and he's just kinda beat up about the whole ordeal."
The Humane Society of Utah reports that a similar incident happened in Centerville two months ago.
Logan, a 1-year-old Irish wolfhound owned by Ivan and Karolynn Christiansen, was sprayed in the face.
The Humane Society's chief investigator, John Paul Fox, contacted the companies reported to have been working in the Centerville area when the Christiansens' dog was sprayed, but none said their employees had sprayed animals.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
