WILTON – The owner of a dog who bit a worker at the town’s transfer station on Saturday is being sought in order to verify the dog’s vaccination record and spare the employee from undergoing painful rabies shots.

A search for the owner was being undertaken Monday, said Town Manager Peter Nielsen.

Jesse Rose, a town employee who started at the transfer station in May, was working Saturday morning when a woman driving a green Ford Explorer came in around 8:45 a.m. There were two dogs, a yellow lab and a white poodle, and a child in the vehicle, he said. The yellow lab bit Rose.

Nielsen expects the driver didn’t realize that more information, such as the dog’s vaccination record, was needed.

With only a 10-day waiting period before Rose must start the shots, Nielsen is making an appeal for the owner or someone who might recognize the owner from the information to call him at 645-4961.

“We basically only need to verify whether the dog has been vaccinated,” he said.