CANTON: Citizen complaints about the Stark County dog pound have prompted county commissioners to send their top staffer to observe its operations for a day.Administrator Michael Hanke will spend Friday at the pound and accompany employees as they respond to calls for service, Commissioner Thomas Bernabei said Wednesday.The information was part of a discussion at the commissioners’ regular weekly meeting at which three women complained about a July incident in which a sedated stray dog died after being sprayed with water by a deputy dog warden who remains on the county payroll.“This abuse needs to stop,” said Makenzie Smith of Bentler Avenue in Plain Township. “It makes me sick that my taxes go to pay this guy’s salary.”Vicki Boatright of Fourth Street Northwest in Canton shared similar sentiments.“A teacher who abuses a child is not going to continue their employment as a teacher,” she said.The deputy at issue, Philip Sedlacko, received a warning from Dog Warden Reagan Tetreault for hosing down the unconscious dog.A dog pound surveillance tape of the incident has played on YouTube since last week.Despite statements from citizens to the contrary, the hose used was not the high-pressure type, according to Michael Bickis, an assistant county prosecutor who investigated the incident.Bickis said the events started the morning of July 25 with a complaint about an aggressive dog on Garfield Avenue Southwest in the city. The animal reportedly charged at Sedlacko, who shot it with a tranquilizer dart after failed attempts to catch it.Employees were in contact with a veterinarian while the dog was unconscious, but believed it had overdosed on the medicine, Bernabei said.The dog died at an emergency clinic while the vet and dog warden contemplated euthanizing the animal.The vet subsequently determined the dog likely died from internal bleeding caused by the dart hitting an artery. The city prosecutor declined to press charges of animal cruelty.Sedlacko also works as Canton’s animal control officer. City Council recently declined to renew his annual contract, opting for a three-month extension.