Exclusive | Who stabs a dog? NYC family in shock after pup stabbed on city street

A maniac snuck up behind a woman and her son as they walked their dog in Union Square and stabbed the plush pooch in the rear, leaving the pup in need of emergency surgery, her owners said Saturday.The 1-year-old Bernadoodle, named Hazel, was with owners Orly Nhaissi and her young son Elijah Sherinsky as they strolled home from Breads Bakery around 7 p.m.Friday when a man yelled something.The apparently deranged man then bent over and jabbed Hazel with a knife near the intersection of 14th Street near Union Square West.“He stabbed Hazel, right there in her butt,” said Elijah.

“She didn’t do anything.We were just walking and he yelled something out.

I think he said ‘You’re an idiot.’”The man, who laughed and grinned right after the attack, had a knife, the teen and his mom said. “I thought at first it was a vape,” the 13-year-old said.“But then I realized it was this pink sheath, black blade.

It was a little bigger, I think, than a pocket knife but not a kitchen knife.”Elijah ran after the man but then stopped as his worried mom shouted at him to come back.“I was yelling ‘No, No, Elijah come back!” the mom, 46, who’s in professional development, recalled. “I thought he was going to stab me, but he didn’t,” the teen said.The mother and son brought the dog back into their building’s lobby but she was “bleeding a lot,” the mom said. “The blood was gushing in the lobby,” Nhaissi said.The doorman gave her paper towels and a rag, and other neighbors jumped into help her pick the dog up and take her to the nearby BluePearl Pet Hospital for emergency surgery.“It’s really devastating,” the mom said.“We’re lucky that he didn’t harm us, but it just kills me.

Who stabs a dog, you know?”“Why would anyone stab an innocent, harmless animal?” she asked.“It’s just because I guess they can.”It took police around two hours to respond to the family’s 911 call, she said.“There are no cops in New York City...