MARYVILLE (WATE) – Victoria Alexander says her dog “Bumper” is fine now, but Tuesday the two-year-old boxer struggled to breathe after he was sprayed in the face by a postal worker with what she believes was bear spray.

Victoria Alexander said she let her dog out inside her fence. When the postal worker walked up to the house, she said Buster started barking because he was saw someone he did not know. Then she said she watched the postal worker walk back to his car and get a spray bottle. Going to the door, she said she saw the worker reach over the fence and spray her dog.

“Bumper was rubbing his eyes, trying to get it out in the grass and he was like ‘sorry I sprayed your dog,’” said Victoria Alexander.

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