A Fresno family is now asking the community for help in hopes of identifying a woman whose large dog attacked their Yorkie and escaped.
Carmen Pina, speaking on behalf of her daughter, says it happened on Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m.
The woman was walking her dogs in the area between Angus Street and Princeton Avenue in Fresno when the attack occurred, according to Carmen.
Pina says her daughter heard the other dogs barking in the front yard.
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She ran out and saw the consequences of what had just happened.
“I heard my daughter. She was screaming for help. You know, like she came out and we all came out,” Pina said.
There were bloodstains all over the street where she found her Yorkie named Pixie, who was badly injured in the attack.
They approached the dog’s owner.
They say she told them she would be right back.
She didn’t do it.
“She couldn’t even come and apologize. She could take the dog home, come back and, you know, ask, offer something to help her. She saw how my daughter was, just hysterical and crying,” Pina said.
According to the Pina family, Pixie had come out of the gate.
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Pina admits that it was her dog’s fault that he ran away, but she did not deserve that death.
“We know it was probably our dog’s fault that she came out of the gate, but she could at least stand here and talk to us and ask that she pay the medical bills, the hospital that my daughter was taken to and where she had to be put down because they said they couldn’t save her.”
The family is now calling on the dog owner to come forward and take responsibility for her dog’s behavior.
They say they are afraid: If he gets away with it, who knows who might get hurt on his next walk.
“I don’t want anyone else to have to go through that because of what that dog did. That dog was a big, vicious dog,” Pina said. “He’s going to hurt somebody else. Maybe not, maybe not another dog, but next it could be a human.”
Carmen says if any neighbors in the area recognize her or know where she lives, please come forward.
They are now searching the area for surveillance footage documenting the attack and for a more detailed description of the woman.
They believe the dog is a dark colored Labrador. She was seen with him on a leash and with another dog off-leash.
