thanjavur a police sniffer dog trying to trace burglars who had stolen valuables from a home in thanjavur was bitten by a pet dog on sunday morning according to police miscreants stole valuables from retired eb engineer kannans home in municipal colony fourth street in thanjavur on saturday they stole 25 sovereigns of gold ornaments and silver utensilson information the thanjavur medical college hospital police rushed to the spot and conducted an inquiry forensic experts were also pressed into action to lift the fingerprints of the miscreants the police brought a sniffer dog named rajarajan to the spotthe sniffer dog detected the smell of the burglars and started to run from kannans house towards the 5th street of municipal colony while it was running a pet dog of a resident jumped out of a compound wall and started biting it the sniffer dog sustained injuries on its legs and neckthe sniffer dogs handler rescued rajarajan the dog was rushed to orathanadu veterinary hospital after treatment the dog had returned to its camp said dog squad special subinspector rajasekaran