Pit bulls that mauled chihuahua terrorized same NYC neighborhood before: ‘There’s got to be consequences’

The savage pit bulls who mauled a chihuahua on the Upper West Side over the weekend have been a menace in the neighborhood for month𒈔s, 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.

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“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.”

Disturbing video of the Saturday night attack posted on X shows bystanders trying to pull Penny out of one of the pit bull’s clutches — while the callous owner yanks one bystanders hair to stop him.

Penny’s owner said the brute even told him during the attack, “There’s nothing you can do.”

“Like, Penny’s going to die and there’s nothing I can do to save her,” dog owner Devon Allen said.

The injured dog is finally freed and the unidentified pit bull owner sneaks aw🅷ay.

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It was eerily similar to the Ja♒nuary attack that killed Grover 🃏and injured Chuckie, Block told The post.

She said she was walking the pair at 81st Street and Central Park West on that Saturday morning when the pit bulls 𒀰lunged at a far-outmatched Chuckie.

“The next thing I knew was I heard was this dog screaming. Because there was a hill I couldn’t see what was happening,” Block said. “I said, ‘What’s going on?’ and people said a small dog was attacked.”

Chuckie escaped with tooth punctures and would need emergency hernia surgery, a vet hospital visit that would take nearly a week, she said — but the nightmare wasn’t over.

“I grabbed my older dog and ran after the guy, because I wanted to get his information so I could report it,” she recalled. “I kept trying to get his attention and he wouldn’t turn around. People were saying, ‘Do the right thing. Give her the information.’ And he was sort of like, ‘F–k off.’

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“I got within 10, 15 feet of him and put my dog down,” she said. “The next thing I knew, I don’t know how it happened so quickly, the dogs immediately attacked my dog, even though I thought we were a safe distance away. I’m screaming at the top my lungs, ‘They’re killing him! They’re killing him! Get them off him!’ He said, ‘You stick your hands in there.’”

“He was just standing there, not making the effort,” Block added. “I was still trying to get his name and he wasn’t turning around.”

Grover, who was 17 years old and already partially blind🙈, died as a result of the attack.

Block filed a dangerous dog complaint with the city, and the Department of Health & Human Services told her they tried to gꦍet in touch with the pit bull owner, but were unsucc☂essful. 

“One, the dogs should get off the street. I don’t know if they need to be euthanized or can be retrained,” she said Wednesday. “Two, he never has dogs again, he suffers some penalty and she does, too, either incarceration or fine.

“They can’t get away with this – obviously they have been to date. But there’s got to be consequences.”