A crazed homeless man in New York City attacked a dog that was taking a walk in Prospect Park and left the creature to die with serious injuries.
According to the dog’s owner Jessica, the attacker was shouting angry comments about immigrants and sprayed a bottle of urine on her dog Moose.
The man later hit the 2-and-a-half-year-old golden retriever mix with a stick, fatally damaging the dog’s intestines.
“He was just trying to protect me and he was just a dog. Why would you hit a dog? You can hit me, That’s bad enough,” Jessica told the Post, crying.
Moose and Jessica, a 41-year-old beekeeper who declined to give her last name, were in the park at about 6:30 a.m. last Wednesday when they came across the assailant, who is still at large this week.
Jessica said she had seen the man before, as he often walks around with a stick muttering to himself. She usually tries to avoid him but when she saw him going through the garbage that day, the man started spraying her and her dog with a bottle of urine.
She tried to escape, running with the dog up some steps but the attacker eventually caught up, and jumped and beat them from behind.
A nearby woman who was also walking her dog saw the incident and screamed at the man to “Get the f—k away from her.”
The attacker eventually got away and is still at large and police said that they are looking for him.
“I want to know how he hasn’t been caught yet. People have seen him in the parks this weekend. It’s a very specific description. He’s hard to miss,” she said.
Jessica immediately took Moose to a Prospect Park vet, where the dog had one shattered tooth that they extracted. She then took the dog home thinking everything was fine until he started acting strange.
“I thought maybe it’s just a reaction to all the pain medication,” she said.
The vet found the dog was suffering from a perforated intestine, and Moose, unfortunately, didn’t make it through the surgery.
Jessica said multiple people have reached out to her following the incident saying they had a similar experience with the man attacking either them or their dogs.
