The search continued Monday for the owner of a pit bull mix that fatally mauled a toy poodle in Santa Monica.
The attack happened around 5:30 p.m. Friday near Main and Strand streets, not far from the beach, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.
The gray-and-white pit bull attacked the 11-year-old toy poodle, which sustained fatal injuries, police said. One of the poodle’s owners was also bitten while trying to save the dog, according to police.
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The pit bull’s owner fled the scene on foot with the dog, and his image was captured by security cameras, police said.
The owners of the poodle, named Dublin, said the pit bull’s owner should be held accountable for failing to prevent the attack and for fleeing the scene afterward.
The incident happened less than two blocks from the home of the poodle’s owners, Alyssa Kluge and Christopher Dietrick.
“This is a walk we take three times a day,” Dietrick said. “We were walking home with Dublin. As we were walking, a man was not paying attention; he was leaned into the passenger window of a car, and the pit bull mix lunged across us, got a hold of our Dublin. It was very violent. There was a big scuffle. I kept punching the dog.”
The man then grabbed his pit bull and “took off running,” Dietrick said.
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“I got him on St. Patrick’s Day more than 11 years ago, and he was aptly named Dublin,” said Kluge, who raised the dog since he was 10 weeks old.
Witnesses said the pit bull’s owner, speaking with an English accent, shouted that someone was going to kill his dog as he ran up Fourth Street and into an apartment building in the Ocean Park neighborhood.
Anyone with information regarding the individual or the pit bull was asked to call Santa Monica Animal Control at 310-458-8595.
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