BALTIMORE — The dog days of summer for Chona, a two-year-old pit bull mix, included a stroll outside on Wednesday that carried plenty of pitfalls.

“We were just walking back,” Chona’s owner recalled, “She actually had a terrible day. She had just gotten stung by a bee. She was not ok.”

And things were about to turn worse when she reached the irresistible waters of these circular fountains tucked out of public view in a Bolton Hill courtyard.

“She jumped into the fountain. She likes to drink and walk through them. We’ve been training her to get comfortable in water and so she jumped in there like she normally does,” said the woman, “and she like jumped up in the air and like projected out of the fountain really unexpectedly.”

Little did Chona’s owner know that other dogs had suffered th

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