Violent Off-The-Leash Dog In Greenpoint Attacked Child: Walker

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — The black terrier who delivered an unprovoked attack on another dog in a Greenpoint park has also bitten a child and several adults, according to her former walker.

“That dog is a killing dog,” Oksana Federenko told Patch. “It’s like walking a tiger in the street.”

Badgey, the black Patterdale terrier who attacked Monk the Shar Pei in Transmitter Park on Oct. 24, belongs to an owner who refused to restrain the dog even after she attacked a 10-year-old boy, a maid and a man walking down the street, Federenko said.

(A ten-year-old Shar Pei named Monk needed three surgeries that cost about $2,000 after Badgey attacked him in Transmitter Park last month.)

Federenko began walking Badgey earlier in 2017, when her owner moved from London into AKA Sutton Place, a long-term residency hotel in midtown Manhattan, she said.

The owner did not warn Federenko about Badgey’s predilection for violence and so she was unprepared when the small dog lunged at a stranger crossing First Avenue near East 56th Street and bit him in the leg, she said.

“She’s an aggressive dog,” Federenko said.

Federenko tried to convince Badgey’s owner the dog needed to be restrained — telling him that Badgey and attacked a stranger and tried to attack her — but he told Federenko it would unkind to tie Badgey up.

“He said I was being mean and cruel,” Federenko said. “He’s a goofball, he has no sense of how dangerous his dog is.”

Federenko took pains to keep Badgey restrained while in her care — she never let the dog loose near other people or animals.

But Badgey’s owner's nonchalance worried Federenko, who once arrived at the apartment to find Badgey was missing — the owner appeared unfazed and told Federenko he was sure Badgey would return home eventually.

And hotel employees told Federenko that Badgey attacked a maid who came to clean the apartment and a 10-year-old boy in the apartment building's lobby while in her owner's care.

Federenko stopped walking Badgey when her owner moved to Greenpoint, but when Federenko heard a small black mutt had attacked another dog without provocation in Transmitter Park, she guessed who was to blame.

Federnko contacted Lauren Bender and Greg Stevens — the owners of a 10-year-old pup who needed $2,000 worth of surgery after he was bitten repeatedly by Badgey — and told them about the dog’s history.

Bender and Stevens tried to convince Badgey’s owner once again to restrain his dog, but he refused to commit to a leash or a muzzle.

"It's even scarier knowing he won't even do that," said Bender, who is trying to get the word out and prevent a second attack. She’s been collecting police reports and sending out alerts on social media.

"Our biggest goal is to not feel like it could happen again."

Badgey’s owner, whose name is being withheld by Patch, did not respond to requests to comment on the phone or on social media.

But Federnko fears that, unless he’ll listen to reason, there is only one solution left.

“Something has to be done otherwise the dog will have to be euthanized.”

Photos courtesy of Lauren Bender and Greg Stevens