By Lisa Marchesoni - June 6, 2007 - 11:02 AM

A 5-year-old boy and his father suffered wounds when a dog attacked them Tuesday night in the county, a sheriff's deputy reported.

Blaine Alig, 5, of Buckeye Bottom Road suffered wounds to his lower right eye and left side that required stitches, Deputy Pat Garrett reported. He was treated at StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna. His father, Adam, suffered bite marks to his hand.

The father told Garrett his son was playing with cousins outside a home on Long Shadow Drive when he noticed the black Labrador attacking his son. He grabbed his son and took him to the house and retrieved a gun.

"He shot the dog twice, killing the dog," Garrett reported.

Animal Control officers were notified to try to locate the dog's owner.

In another case, Deputy Mike Hoekstra reported Robert William Lynch Jr. of Crescent Road reported his neighbor's dog attacked his dog but Lynch rescued his dog before it was injured Monday night. The neighbor retrieved her dog.

Another report showed a neighbor's dog jumped in and damaged a pool owned by Thomas Edward Lanham of Thornton Drive. The neighbor agreed to replace the pool.