Conrad Calderon is fighting for change after his dog Tawny was stabbed two times at Shawnee Dog Park in Chandler on Thursday night.
Calderon and his girlfriend got Tawny in early December from the Arizona Animal Control Center. He described her as a one-and-a-half-year-old pit-bull terrier mix, a cuddler with soft fur, and said she fit in perfectly with his other dogs.
”Tawny. I’m trying, you’re not forgotten, you’re loved and I miss you,” Calderon said.
It was one of Tawny’s first few trips to the dog park when the attack happened. He said he and Tawny were leaving the dog park when she went up to two other dogs at the gates to the park. Calderon said Tawny wanted to play, and the other owner wanted nothing to do with her.
Calderon said there was a “scuffle” between the dogs and then he saw the owner walk away while folding a pocketknife.
“The most serious fight I have ever seen, somebody might get bit,” Calderon explained how this interaction did not warrant for Tawny to be stabbed. “A dog might need to go to the vet because the other dog bit it pretty hard, but guess what, everyone survived.”