BOSTON -- After several dogs were electrocuted while walking down city sidewalks, NStar said it has a plan to stop stray electrical current running underneath city streets.

NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that a city task force inspected all electrical fixtures throughout Boston and stray currents have been fixed.

"When (my dog) hit the spot, she went down immediately. I leaned over and picked her up, and at that point, I got electrocuted. The electric shock went through me and she pretty much died instantly," said Julie Daniele, of South Boston.

"My last dog was one of the dogs who was shocked in the street, and he was so traumatized that he had to retire. He could no longer work as a guard dog," said Alice Dampman.

That was the same month another dog was killed by stray voltage. This year, a boxer, Cassius, was electrocuted in Allston while being walked by his 13-year-old owner. Other animals have been shocked, but have recovered. The incidents usually occur during the winter when salt used to melt snow and ice conducts electricity. On Thursday, Mayor Thomas Menino's task force on electrical safety issued a report saying more than 100,000 electrical fixtures around the city have been inspected. Stray voltage was detected at 62 locations, and all were fixed.

"We will see it again at some time, but we will not see it as often and we now have protocols to go by and fix the problem. There will always be the possibility of stray voltage," said Nicholas Gilman of the Animal Rescue League of Boston.

NSTAR chairman Thomas May agreed that there are no guarantees. The city's electrical infrastructure, he said, is under constant siege.

"A lot of people are digging in the streets; a lot of trucks are flowing through the streets. We need everybody's help -- when they see something, when they see wires exposed, when they see someone knock a cover off a traffic signal to report it and we will fix it right away," May said.

"I guess I'm just skeptical that maybe we will go through this winter without (any shocks) and people will forget about it and the same thing will happen again the following year," said Daniele.

NStar still must finish inspecting their 22,000 manhole covers, as well the sites of 3,000 demolished buildings. May said NSTAR will then begin a rolling, and continuous three year inspection process of its entire electrical infrastructure.