Police K-9 Hurt On the Job Makes Full Recovery

A North Haven police dog badly hurt while helping with a hit-and-run investigation in New Haven earlier this month has made a full recovery, according to police.

K-9 Zeus suffered a serious injury to one of his back legs will scaling a metal fence in search of the hit-and-run driver in early January, police said. He underwent surgery at the Central Animal Hospital and was out of commission for a couple weeks while his injury healed.

Zeus has now returned to work full time, the police department posted on its Facebook page Thursday.

"We would like to Thank everyone for the overwhelming support and well wishes," the department said on Facebook.

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