A pair of vicious pit bulls have terrorized a Coney Island building for months, killing one innocent pup and mangling two more, outraged pet owners said Wednesday. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latest attack took place Sunday morning when a French bulldog, Calypso, had just gotten back to Coney Island Commons \u2014 and one of the pit bulls snatched the tiny dog in its mouth and made it go limp. <\/p>\n
Calypso was badly injured Sunday. Diane Bradley<\/p>\n
\u201cIt grabbed her by the head and shook her around like a rabbit,\u201d owner Diane Bradley, 56, recalled to The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pulling on the lease so hard to get Calypso out of his mouth that the leash just snapped. I fell to the floor. That\u2019s when I begged the porter to go get my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bradley\u2019s spouse, Derrick, jumped into action as the pit bulls\u2019 owner also tried to stop his savage dogs\u2019 attack. Derrick, 58, said he pulled one of the dogs away, and the owner started punching the other one to get it to release Calypso.<\/p>\n
Video footage\u00a0obtained by The Post appears show the pit bulls\u2019 owner clock one of the dogs in the aftermath of the scuffle.<\/p>\n
Calypso survived the attack, though her frail frame suffered severe injuries, including stitches and a swollen eye. The Bradleys said they filed a police report.<\/p>\n
The near-fatal mauling is among three attacks dating back to May \u2013 with one of the affected dog owners telling The Post that pet owners are walking their four-legged friends terrified and laying the blame on the owner.<\/p>\n
Leshia Palmer and her dog Milo, who was attacked in May. William Farrington<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fearful,\u201d said Latoya Nunn, who doesn\u2019t live in the building. \u201cWe don\u2019t feel safe, and that\u2019s terrible. We don\u2019t feel safe walking our dog. It\u2019s already not safe for humans, it\u2019s not safe for dogs either, it\u2019s horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nunn\u2019s dog, Denim, was killed on June 19 while the pair were at a community event for Juneteenth.<\/p>\n
The big dogs targeted the bichon frise, and while Nunn tried to pull her dog into her arms, Denim wrangled out of her harness free and tried to flee from the danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly believe in my heart that she did it to protect me because that dog would\u2019ve attacked me if I were to have Denim in my arms, that dog it could\u2019ve even been more catastrophic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Milo is one of three dogs to face the pit bulls\u2019 wrath, neighbors said. <\/p>\n
The dogs easily caught up, and \u201cone had her from one end and one had her from the other,\u201d Nunn recalled. \u201cAnd she was bloody and it was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dog later died at the animal hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave joy,\u201d Nunn said of her precious \u201clittle fluffy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leshia Palmer, who lives in the same apartment building as Bradley, alleged to The Post her dog faced down the same two pit bulls while her teenage daughter was walking her in May. \u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the dogs had to wrangled in Sunday. <\/p>\n
Her daughter noticed the beasts in front of the building so she started walking the dog, Milo, to another entrance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pit bulls just charged after Milo,\u201d Palmer, 40, said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir leashes were on them, but they were just both laying on the ground \u2014 the leashes \u2014 so they just charged right at Milo both of them. My daughter tried to pull Milo in but eventually had to let go of the leash.\u201d<\/p>\n
Derrick Bradley holds up a pink leash and collar that broke during a dog attack. William Farrington<\/p>\n
Her pup suffered four bite marks, including the worst one on her neck, Palmer said.<\/p>\n
ELH Mgmt. LLC, the company that oversees Coney Island Commons, said in an email it started eviction proceedings against the owner of the dogs Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety and well-being of our residents and their pets are our top priorities,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have initiated legal proceedings against the tenant and are taking this matter very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Post knocked on the dog owner\u2019s door on the seventh floor in the building, but no one answered. Dogs could be heard barking behind the door. <\/p>\n
The trio of dog owners are frustrated that stronger measures against the pit bulls and their owner can\u2019t be taken. In New York state, issues over people\u2019s animals have typically been limited to civil court litigation. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese dogs are out of control,\u201d Nunn said with Palmer adding, \u201cThose two dogs should have been gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many dogs are we going to allow to get attacked?\u201d Palmer said. \u201cHow many are we going to allow to get killed? Is a person next?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of vicious pit bulls have terrorized a Coney Island building for months, killing one innocent pup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,119,6530,57,9,56,63,65,64,22089,11641,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-37744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-coney-island","10":"tag-dogs","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-pet","18":"tag-pit-bulls","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}