Postal workers across the country faced attacks in the last few weeks from animals and humans.
In Middletown, Conn., a postal worker was bitten multiple times by a pit bull. Police said around 4:15 p.m. on June 9, they responded to a call about a report of a dog bite. Officers arrived and found 48-year-old Ryan Boudreau injured near a residence on the street.
Boudreau was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and sustained bites to his left thigh, left wrist, right forearm, lower abdomen, and the back of his head.
“I’m shocked. I feel bad for the guy. He’s a great mailman,” Dave Beit, a Middletown resident, said. “I hope he recovers.”
Police said Boudreau was delivering mail when a 5-year-old male pit bull forced open the storm door of a house and attacked him in the front yard. The dog was taken to an animal shelter and will remain in isolation as police investigate the incident.
The attack came the week the USPS kicked off its National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign that runs through the end of July. Roughly 6,000 postal workers were attacked by dogs last year, the USPS said.
Using a photo of a dog in a dog attack article, which doesn’t represent the breed type (Pit bull) that attacked the person, is extremely poor judgement. Media has been ‘bullied’ by bully owners into avoiding a headline that mentions Pit bulls.