Came across a sad local story about a dog who was electrocuted when he stepped on a metal plate during a walk on Thanksgiving. You can read the news article about Sammy here.
His owner, Lisa, started a blog, Sammy's Big Heart, to help spread the word about the dangers of stray voltage. From reading her blog it seems that there were other occurrences, though neither as tragic, on the same block, one happening just the day before. What's scary is that we know that area and have walked down that very strip of sidewalk before. I don't know how I would handle it if that happened to Dar.