Franklin Township supervisors were puzzled as to why a man he waited so long to complain about a dead dog in his yard.

Marvin Ivory of Indian Hill Road told the board Tuesday night that some time in the summer of 2007, he found a dead dog on his property and had called police to find out who the owner of the dog might be.Ivory said that he wanted to know why the dog ended up on his property."I called Franklin Township police and officer Frank Buonaiuto stopped by and took off the collar of the dog," he said.After contacting the officer repeatedly over many months, he said that he had never found out who owned the dog. Ivory said he also contacted the assistant district attorney and filed a complaint that the officer refused to respond to his requests."The dog was big," he said. "It had a collar and a license. It was a doberman-type dog."Ivory said that the biggest confusion was when officer Buonaiuto denied having stopped at his home, saying that it must have been someone else who answered the call about the dog."I find this puzzling," he said. "Why would he deny being there? I knew who he was because my wife had been involved in a hit-and-run and we have the police report with his name on it and it was the same officer."Chairman Rod Green had no answers for Ivory."It sound like the police officer didn't follow through, but I can't understand why he would say he wasn't there."Ivory said that after a few days he dug a large hole in his field and buried the dog. He added that a township worker did show up to pick up the dog, but he had already buried it.In other news, supervisors:• Adopted a resolution designating Franklin Township Police Department for enforcement of the garbage collection ordinance.• Gave a six-month time extension to meet final approval of the Rock Street Development project.• Adopted a statement of support for American soldiers serving in the National Guard and Reserve.• Set Trick or Treat night for 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26.• Approved the Franklin Township Special Police to provide traffic control assistance at the Halloween Parade on Oct. 22.Supervisors received a request from Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful with help in conducting a survey in Carbon County for illegal dumpsites. The goal of the project is to identify and map every visible dumpsite from the public right-of-way within the county.The final report would be available in Spring 2012. The report would be useful to the township for developing clean up and abatement strategies.