A man and his dog were approached and threatened by two unattended pit bulls in Merrick Thursday evening, according to eyewitness reports.
Megan Koutsis, a registered nurse from North Merrick, told Patch that she spotted the two dogs running across Meadowbrook Road while she was driving home from work around 7:30 p.m. When she turned onto Henry Street, she spotted the animals near a man and his small dog.
“The pit bulls kept circling this man, growling, as he trembled and cradled his small leashed dog,” Koutsis said.
Koutsis said she immediately called the police. She then flashed her lights and beeped her horn to try to scare the pit bulls away from the man and his dog and to try to bring attention to the developing situation.
Soon after, Koutsis opened her car door enough to allow the man and his animal into her vehicle unharmed. Police arrived about 10 minutes after her call, Kousis said, and the dogs had fled in an unknown direction.
“As a big walker, and mother of two small children, I would like to make sure these two animals are off the street,” she said.
Nassau County Police did not have any further information on the incident or the whereabouts of the dogs, according to a spokeswoman.
On Sept. 29, 2011, a woman was attacked by two pit bulls when she arrived for work at Brookside School. She sustained serious injuries.
Most Recently, on Aug. 24, a pit bull got loose from its dog walker and attacked a Boston Terrier, which needed extensive surgeries after the incident.
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Unattended Pit Bulls Threaten Man, Dog in North Merrick
The location where the dogs were spotted. (Credit: MapQuest)
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Bobby Stokel May 21, 2013 at 11:17 am
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Zach T May 17, 2013 at 07:20 pm
The School board is a bunch of morons if they want to remove this designation! There were 0 problems…Read More like this when Malucci was in office, this new superintendent is a waste of space, money, and cares more about his own paycheck then our kids! Between school security, and now this, I motion that we get rid of that skell!
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Bless you, Anthony. And though I know ultimately the "Judge" will have to be held…Read More accountable by a higher authority...those of us who do this work, have not forgotten nor will we allow the system to forget what her role in this travesity was.
Anthony Merlo May 16, 2013 at 10:24 am
Thank you for this wonderful article on a good man pushed to the brink. I appriciate the fact this…Read More came form the heart and did not hold back. As Sacristan at Cure of Ars, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Rich (as I called him) for some time. He was a man of faith and a pleasure to see. Always with a smile and kind word, you would never know what was going on the way he acted. This was a wonderful and insightful article. It is heartbreaking to think that where there was once love between 2 people, things got to the point where one persons life was destroyed by those who could and did for no apparent reason other than having the ability to do so. God will have mercy on Dr. Rich and the ex-wife and "Judge" should pray for the same given their actions.