NEW JERSEY -- A Hoboken woman and her dog were attacked by two pit bulls Tuesday, police said.
At around 5:20 p.m., the 32-year-old woman was walking her dog on Willow Avenue between 11th and 12th streets when a man described as 5-foot-7, in his mid-30s, and wearing a baseball cap, basketball jersey and basketball shorts lost control of his pit bull, reports said.
The pit bull, which was gray with a white patch on its chest, ran toward the victim and her small dog, injuring the pooch’s left back leg, reports said.
As the man tried getting the pit bull under control and into an apartment at 262 11th St., a reddish brown pit bull bolted from the building and the man lost control of the dog he was handling, reports said.
Although the man, who told onlookers his name was “Justin,” told the victim that his dogs didn’t bite, she held her dog in the air to protect it while the dogs climbed onto her, reports said.
The victim suffered abrasions to the left side of her lower torso and abrasions to her right wrist and her dog was taken to a veterinarian in Edgewater for medical treatment, reports said.
The man and his dogs have not yet been found, reports said.
Hoboken police spoke to a resident at the apartment who said she has never seen anyone matching the man’s description or the dogs living in the building, reports said.
(Jersey Journal - October 13, 2011)
