ALBANY — It was another do-nothing day at the state Capitol yesterday, but over at the Governor’s Mansion, some real action took place.
Gov. Paterson’s dog attacked a state carpenter — proving it’s the only living thing with any bite in Albany.
Cheerio, a 6-pound Maltese, bit Thomas Keyser in the leg in what sources said was at least the third attack by the pooch on a state worker this year.
A source familiar with the incident said Keyser, who was fixing a staircase rail, had to “repeatedly shake his leg up in the air because the goddamn dog wouldn’t let go.” Paterson was in New York City at the time.
“The dog came running out of the kitchen and bit me on my calf,” Keyser, 53, of upstate Troy told The Post.
“Everyone over there knows the dog is aggressive. I know plenty of these guys who got bit, and if they can’t put this dog in a cage, I can’t understand it.”
Paterson spokesman Peter Kauffmann confirmed the attack.
A source said last night that Cheerio had been caged and brought to a state Health Department lab for observation and to make sure he had received required vaccines.
Kauffmann said Cheerio had been up to date with shots.
A source also said other state workers had been bitten by Cheerio.
“The elevator guy got bit, the painter got bit,” the source said.
An Office of Government Services spokesman, Brad Maione, said he was unaware of any other biting charges.