MOULTRIE, Ga. — Maybe he was fulfilling his role as man’s best friend or maybe it was the uniform; either way, a family pooch bit a sheriff’s deputy as he was leaving following a domestic dispute investigation.

When the officer responded at about 9 p.m. to the 500 block of Indian Lake Drive, Shechina Rorie reported that a male relative threatened to burn the house.

Rorie told police that the man got angry because her daughter was in the bathroom. He left after she called 911.

Rorie told police there had been no prior history of domestic violence at their residence.

After taking the report the officer was walking back to his car when a white dog bit him in the leg.

The Moultrie-Colquitt County Humane Society picked up the dog, which belongs to Rorie, for testing, police said. The officer was treated at the Colquitt Regional Medical Center emergency room.

A hospital spokeswoman was unable on Wednesday to provide a condition report for the deputy.

In other domestic violence reports:

• Kaitlyn Jackson, 1300 block Overlook Drive, reported Monday that a male relative pushed her against a wall.

Landon Jackson told police that he pushed Jackson, but that she also pushed him. A witness reported that she saw the two pushing each other but did not know who instigated the altercation.

The two agreed to separate for the night to allow a cooling-down period, police said. Kaitlyn Jackson had a small scratch on one of her fingers.

• Karyn Prim, 1000 block R.L. Sears Road reported Tuesday a male companion flicked a cigarette in her face and struck her in the face with his hand.

The man was gone when police arrived.

Burglary

Sheriff’s Office

• Karla Thomas, 500 block McElroy Road, reported Tuesday that when she returned home at about 11:45 a.m. two males ran out of the front door of her residence.

Nothing was reported stolen.

• Brittni Barnes, 1000 block Sharon Church Road, Omega, reported Tuesday the theft of a Samsung stereo and bluetooth speaker with a total value of $599.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., reported Tuesday that three women took store merchandise valued at $588 for which they had not paid out to a car in the parking lot.

Police arrested two women suspects on charges of shoplifting and possession of marijuana. Arrest warrants were not available on Wednesday.

All of the property was recovered, police said.

• Wayne Jackson, Moultrie, reported Tuesday the theft of a cell phone valued at $500.

Jackson told police that he let the cell phone on a store counter in the 1000 block of First Avenue Southeast. Store video showed a man taking the phone, police said.

Fraud

Sheriff’s Office

• Robin Suber, 100 block Beaty Road reported Monday that someone purchased a cell phone for $246 at a store using her financial information to make a fraudulent purchase.

Suber told police that the mailing address given for the phone was Miami.

Property damage

Sheriff’s Office

• Rosalind Green, 300 block West Bethel Avenue, reported Monday that someone flattened tires  on a 2001 Mercury Marquis.

The car also had scratches all the way around and on the hood, police said, and a taillight was broken. Officers found a piece of a brick next to the car.

Moultrie Police

• Macon Revill, 500 block 27th Street Southeast, reported Tuesday that two female acquaintances kicked the door of her residence.

She told police that she recently had had the two move out of her residence and that they had been retaliating against her since then. When Revill answered the door, she reported, the two women ran own the stairs and left in a brown Chrysler PT Cruiser.