Police have filed charges against a 42-year-old Norfolk man who they say attacked a 20-month-old boxer dog on Creek Drive this past Tuesday morn­ing. Police got a call around 9 a.m. Tuesday “that there was a dog being attacked and beaten in the area of Creek Drive and Seekonk Street,” police said in a written statement.

(Above): Roxanne, a 20-month-old dog who was al­legedly attacked by a man on Tuesday, February 16. Courtesy Photo Hilary Cohen, the town’s ani­mal control officer and a special police officer, went to the scene along with Sergeant David Mc­Connell

and Officer Stephen Plympton. Cohen got a warrant from Wrentham District Court to seize the dog.

Witnesses said the man beat the dog with his gloved fist and that he threw the dog from over his shoulders to the ground more than once, “holding the dog by her feet and throwing her to the ground,” Cohen said in an email message. The dog suffered pulmonary contusions and soft tissue in­juries on her hind end, Cohen said. The man, who Cohen said is not the dog’s owner, was charged with one count of cruelty to ani­mals. Roxanne lives at a home on Stop River Road, which is near Creek Drive. The dog was released from an animal hospital on Friday, Feb­ruary 19 and is in Cohen’s care. The dog is on medication for pain and to prevent infection.