Czar and fellow police dog Photo: Dru Nadler / Stamford Advocate
When a police dog wants to get back out to work you can’t reason with it and say it needs more time to heal and rest. Even being bribed with ice cream is apparently not a big enough treat to make Czar the Belgian Maliois rest only days after being stabbed. Police Sgt. Andre Valez told the Norwalk Hour that the 3-year-old Belgian shepherd was stabbed on the face and tongue while trying to break up a knife fight on Saturday.
When one of the men involved in the fight charged Czar’s handler, Officer Frank Reda. Czar went after suspect, biting him in the abdomen and groin area. The suspect dropped one of the knives but began slashing at Czar’s muzzle with the other. During the attack, Czar was stabbed in the tongue and sustained cuts to his gums. The Norwalk police dog was stabbed just days after receiving an award from the Connecticut Police Work Dog Association. Last June, Czar found a double murder suspect who was hiding in the woods.
