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After Dog Electrocuted, Owner Wants Answers

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Near North Side man is out of the hospital and urging dog owners to watch where they walk this after his beloved pet was electrocuted on a sidewalk.

Now city authorities are trying to get to the bottom of who's to blame.

CBS 2's Sandra Torres spoke with the dog owner, who suffered electrical burns in his legs and a laceration in his hands. Two days after the incident, he's looking for someone to be held accountable.

For Brian Malone, it's difficult to return to the place where his six-year-old dog Ladanian died two days ago.

"Ladanian was my first puppy ever," Malone said. "He was my treat to myself for graduation from business school."

Today, there's just a small spot covered in cement, but on Monday, there was an orange cone with electrical copper wiring attached to a fence and Ladanian got too close to it.

"Next thing I know Ladanian was shrieking and yelping and spasming like I've never heard and I think he lost control of his back legs and he eventually went down."

The mutt died and Malone ended up getting hurt while trying to help him.

"In the process of me just trying to administer CPR suffering burns up my leg from the voltage," Malone said.

Now he's trying to find answers as to why the cone was there in the first place.

"To have a residential fence be revealed to be electrically live two weeks ago and then to not quarantine that off and just have some ground wire installed into the ground on the exterior of the fence meaning on the sidewalk, that just doesn't make any sense."

The city tells us a private contractor was working on the fence owned by the Marshall Field Apartments. In a statement they said they are aware of the incident and are cooperating with the investigation.

In the meantime, the dog owner says he's considering legal action.

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