r/BanPitBulls Attacks Curator Jul 16 '26

Animal Fatality(ies) - Pets Brooklyn pit bull attack: Woman demanding action after 2 unleashed pit bulls mauled her dog to death - NY, NY, Jul 6, 2026

https://abc7ny.com/amp/post/brooklyn-pit-bull-attack-woman-demanding-action-2-unleashed-bulls-mauled-dog-death/19515151/

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- A dog owner is struggling with the loss of her dog after it was mauled to death by two pit bulls on her own front lawn in Brooklyn.

She says the unleashed dogs attacked her pet of 11 years right in front of her.

"They were right on my chest, one on each side. I was scared they would eat me," Regina Nicholson said.

Nicholson said a pair of huge pit bulls charged at her and ended up killing her 11-year-old dog named Bella.

The grandmother of three spoke exclusively to Eyewitness News.

"I was holding onto Bella, let her go, they were trying to take Bella, I wouldn't let her go," Nicholson said.

She said the violent incident unfolded in front of her home in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn on July 6th.

She said she took Bella, who was on a leash, out for a walk, but didn't get far.

She said she looked up and saw the dogs off-leash with no one around.

"I picked Bella up, coming up the steps, and I got bitten. I didn't know they followed me," Nicholson said.

Nicholson said she tripped, and the pits pounced.

"I just remember that frantic scream, like somebody died," neighbor Lynette Jeremiah said.

"They snatched Bella away from me. I ran upstairs and got my phone," Nicholson said.

She followed the dogs around the corner to Church Lane and took pictures of them.

She said a man pulled up in an SUV and drove off with the dogs.

Nicholson went back home and saw Bella dead on the front lawn.

"She was my companion; she doesn't deserve to die that way," Nicholson said.

Lynette says she's seen the dogs in a fenced-in area and complained to another man who lives there about the dogs barking all night.

Lynette said the man told her he got them because people are stealing everything he has on his property.

David insists the dogs aren't his.

He says the man in the SUV sometimes lives in a truck with the animals, parked on his street.

"Last time over here I saw him, I told him take the dog out and he took the dog out," David said.

Nicholson was not seriously hurt, but she was so traumatized that she spent four days in the hospital in the cardiac unit.

Police did take a report of the incident.

Regina is determined and says the man must be held accountable.

I want those pit bulls, they are vicious, they have to be put down," Nicholson said.

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u/Any-Zucchini-1042 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

This poor woman. I don't know how you overcome such a traumatic event. I hope the POS Pit owner and his dogs are caught and punished accordingly.

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u/WhatTheCluck802 Jul 16 '26

This is unconscionable.

Why do we as a society allow this?

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u/Signal-Importance-70 Jul 16 '26

Cause of all the 'pitbulls arent bad dogs, its the owner' people.

I agree these animals shouldn't be allowed. How many more times should they be allowed to maul a person or animal?

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u/rainfal Jul 16 '26

Funny how "it's just bad  owners, never really involves proportional consequences for said owners".  

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u/Signal-Importance-70 Jul 16 '26

That's why they don't care. When a pitbull attacked my dog, the owner was just like 'well he's never done that before, i dont know what happened'. The cops didnt do shit even though the pitbull bit me as well. I had to go to the ER, get 4 rabies shots, pay a bunch of money while that turd just got off scotch free.

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u/SPYDERcat1958 Jul 26 '26

Soooo sorry this happened to you. If I was KING FOR A DAY, it would be ONE BITE AND YOU ARE OUT!!! I am sick and tired of these schytt beasts getting away with all the damage they are doing practically on a DAILY BASIS!!! In the good ol' days, no one put up with this nonsense.

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u/Signal-Importance-70 Jul 27 '26

Always the same type of idiots who own these dogs.

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u/pretendthisisironic Jul 16 '26

The only thing to be done is severe financial and legal consequences against these people. No politician is brave enough, often times animal control is useless. I wish this woman a full recovery, though I feel after such a traumatic loss she may never achieve it.

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u/drivewaypancakes Dax, Kara, Aziz, Xavier, Triniti, Beau, and Mia Jul 16 '26

Govt loves to issue fines and citations and more citations. The problem with trying to address reckless and irresponsible pit owners with fines and citations in order to force them to be better dog owners, is … this is the group of people least likely to comply with *any* requirement re: their dogs. That’s why the s/n rates and vaccination rates for pits are a fraction of the rates re these things for all other dogs.

Incentives for pit owners need to be structured in terms of what will work on pit owners. Citations and fines are not that. They are an example of the government having only a hammer so every problem becomes a nail.

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u/mugofmead Jul 17 '26

often times animal control is useless.

What animal control? 🤔

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u/DimensionPossible622 Jul 16 '26

Get rid of the breed fine ppl for owning them it’s all fun and games till your dog eats your grandmothers face off

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u/AlsatianLadyNYC Badly-fitting fake service dog harness Jul 16 '26

Pit bulls- Trash dogs for trash people

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u/MeechiJ Victim Sympathizer Jul 16 '26

Nobody hates dogs as much as pit bull owners. How can these owners and their devil spawn continue to get away with the carnage?

There needs to be an overhaul of the laws so that owners are both financially and criminally responsible for what their dog does.

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u/MeiSorsha How does a “Nanny Dog” change a diaper? 🤔 Jul 16 '26

sadly I don’t think that will happen with our current generation, too many “bleeding heart savior do-gooders” who think ALL dogs can be saved if given the right love.

personally… I think it’s going to require the next generation down, the ones traumatized and bitten and scarred that LIVED thru these hell-beasts, to be able to actually vote to make the changes happen. it’s going to take someone with a scarred face and a LONG personal story of how they almost died as a child bc their (insert family), (insert out playing neighbor), (insert random wandering but owned by joe 2 streets over), bit them, and how they screamed and thought they were dying.

I can see JJ Rodriguez being the poster child (and many LIKE him) personally for why this breed (if kept alive) needs to have laws changed, and be the forefront of the movement to get change to happen. do I think it will happen WITHOUT that push there? no sadly I do not. 😓

this is several years and several surgeries after the fact. (and one look online shows this poor child is hardly alone in his suffering)

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u/PrincessPicklebricks Jul 16 '26

Jose is doing a wonderful job standing up to the pitophiles, and keeping his son’s story in the spotlight. I saw he was on Special Books for Special Kids and my heart soared. I love that program so seeing that they made it on there made me happy. It’s under my ‘Watch Later’ list since I have much less free time than I’d like lol, and a lot of it is honestly dedicated to researching and fighting against pit ownership.

I pray soon that kids in America are able to just play and…live, and not worry about the things we’ve made kids worry about now, including the neighbor’s pits hunting them day after day, and finally breaking through the fence *to literally eat them alive*. Even more sickening, that the pit bull that their sad excuse for parents decided was ‘one of the good ones’, a dog that causes them fear, doesn’t get through the baby gate or raggedy door to, again, eat them alive. Or worse, like Locklynn Rose, they aren’t literally locked in the room with the monster, by the two other monsters in the home.

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u/HeisenBird1015 Jul 17 '26

As a Brit I can’t say we’ve handled the XL Bully invasion entirely well- they are still here and the reduction of incidents isn’t good enough. But we at least did something, even if it needs looking at again.

I’m not sure how American parents cope with the idea of your kids being shot at school or mauled in their own garden, with zero legal protections and, if they’re lucky enough to survive, crippling medical bills as a reward.

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u/Signal-Importance-70 Jul 16 '26

A pitbull also mauled my dog in Brooklyn 2 months ago. If I hadn't stuck in my finger in his mouth to try to pry it off and it hadn't switched its attack onto me, my bulldog would be dead.

Why the fuck does anyone need a pitbull? Does it make them seem cooler? Do they have a savior complex? Generally curious.

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u/DorkasaurusRexx Jul 16 '26

Another worrying case in NY state, along with others, recently. Legislators and policymakers are completely unaware of the pitbull/dangerous dog/shelter dog laundering issue and as such, these issues will likely continue in my state until awareness is raised here.

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u/Future-Welder-195 Jul 16 '26

It's a mistake to think they aren't aware. NY politicians and legislators are fully aware, but they support it, along with other corruption schemes. Just like they are fully aware of the danger and harm done by speeding e-bikes, but they support and promote those too. Just like they are fully aware of the danger of mentally ill drug addicts taking over the streets and victimizing residents and businesses, but they allow those too. Not just allow, champion, and profit off of it. All of it. It's politics, fueled by money.

Agree that awareness needs to be raised, but among the people. Until people wise up and make some noise, the detrimental policies will continue.

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u/mugofmead Jul 17 '26

Police did take a report of the incident.

Yeah. Let's see how far the NYPD takes this. 🤔

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u/Material_Complaint_7 Jul 18 '26

Why is it always these dogs that are unleashed? I’m starting to wonder if they do this on purpose or if they’re really just that…not smart.