A dog is recovering after being found Monday with a gunshot wound in West Toledo.

Toledo police were dispatched about 5 p.m. to the area of West Sylvania and Homewood avenues on a shots-fired call, according to a report. Officers were met by a security guard from the nearby West Toledo branch library, who said he heard a gunshot.

The guard told officers he saw a man walking away from a white “pit bull” and assumed the person had shot the dog, the report states. The man left in a red Chevrolet SUV.

Officers located the dog in the 1300 block of West Sylvania with an injury to the upper right of its chest. An officer from Lucas County Canine Care & Control then arrived and took the dog for emergency care at MedVet Toledo.

Kelly Sears, the county shelter’s director, said Tuesday that neighbors at the scene said the young adult dog is named Noah and had reportedly broken through a basement window to escape his home in that block of West Sylvania.

“We left a notice on the door, and we’ve reported everything to [the Toledo Humane Society],” Ms. Sears said, adding that Noah is so far “very sweet.”

It appears a bullet grazed the dog’s lip, entered through the front of his chest, and exited through an underarm area, Ms. Sears said. Noah was doing very well Tuesday. His wound had been cleaned, and he received pain medication and antibiotics.

"He seems totally fine,” Ms. Sears said. “You'd almost never know it."

Steven Heaven, the local humane society’s president and chief executive, said Tuesday one of the organization’s cruelty investigators is looking into the case.

The humane society took the dog into its care Tuesday afternoon. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the organization’s cruelty hotline at 419-891-9777 or submit a tip online at toledohumane.org/stop-animal-cruelty.

First Published December 1, 2020, 8:55 p.m.