NORTH PROVIDENCE – The family dog of the well-known Catanzaro family has been declared vicious and ordered to be euthanized after it attacked a second neighborhood dog and badly injured it.
The attacking dog, co-owned by Madisson Catanzaro, daughter of former Fire Chief Steven Catanzaro and former mayoral candidate and Town Council President Kristen Catanzaro, had been alleged to have behaved in a vicious or terrorizing manner on April 26 after it broke through a fence at 6 Gardner Ave. that hadn’t been properly secured and attacked another dog in the yard behind at 11 Observatory Ave., severely injuring it.
The panel that decided the dog’s fate on May 13 was made up of Special Agent Earl Newman, of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, as chairman, Lt. Michael Tavarozzi, of the North Providence Police Department, and Animal Control Officer Robert Salisbury, of the Smithfield Police Department.