The savage pit bulls who mauled a chihuahua on the Upper West Side over the weekend have been a menace in the neighborhood for months, killing one shih tzu mix and maiming another in January.
Manhattan attorney Lauren Block said the same two dogs attacked her two pooches, Chuckie and Grover, on Jan. 4, months before they attacked a 16-pound pup named Penny on Saturday night.
“I was completely disgusted and sickened and – I hate this word – triggered, because this could have been avoided,” Block said, recounting the attack that left Grover dead and Chuckie maimed. “The guy was so brazen that he didn’t try to get the dogs off Penny, either.
“The way the one dog was picking up Grover and shaking him like a stuffed animal, I could just imagine him picking up a child and doing that. My dog was totally defenseless,” Block said. “One, the dogs should get off the street. I don’t know if they need to be euthanized or can be retrained.”…