A wild dog that mauled several pets and killed one on the Upper East Side last year has struck again — a year after his owner wanted to have him euthanized, The Post has learned.
Syko escaped from a car with two other “snarling” German Shepherds outside the owner’s now-closed bookstore on East 92nd Street on Friday morning — and then attacked a 71-year-old woman who was walking her dog, according to the victim and witnesses.
“The door burst open and these three huge dogs started attacking us,” said Lucy Davis, a 30-year-old Upper East Side resident who was knocked to the ground in the attack.
Shocking footage shows the 70-year-old on the ground, her arms wrapped around Oscar, her 11-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, while three men protected her from one of the German Shepherds.
Davis defended her much smaller dog by repeatedly punching one of the other dogs in the muzzle and then pushing away another that was attacking her.
“I kept saying ‘No, no!’ and screaming,” she remembers.
Meanwhile, a man wearing glasses tugged at the collar of a muzzled dog, Syko, and threw him into the car before turning around to tend to a second dog, as seen in a video.
“If the man hadn’t gotten out of the car to call the dogs back, they would have killed my dog,” Davis said.
That handler repeatedly fumed: “She should have put those dogs down,” Davis said – referring to an earlier promise by Syko’s owner, Lynda Hudson, to put him down after the wave of attacks that terrorized the neighborhood.
Hudson had said she planned to euthanize Syko after the snarling pooch was accused of injuring at least four dogs in the area last year, including a 7-pound toy poodle named Baby who had to be euthanized after his spine was broken in the alleged attack.
In an apology letter to neighbors, Hudson claimed that a veterinarian had denied her request to euthanize her vicious dog.
Baby’s owner, Akiba Tripp, said she began “shaking and crying” on Friday after learning Syko had struck again – just two hours after Trip walked her new puppy, a 1-year-old toy poodle named Lola-B, on the same block.
Hudson stood in the doorway of her former bookstore, La Librairie des Enfants, during Friday’s attack and showed little concern about the chaos her animals were causing, said UES resident Tori Pratt.
“I just started yelling at her, ‘Your dog is doing it again, your dog is doing it again,’ and she took the whole thing completely calmly,” fumed Pratt, 33, who fears that the Hudson’s untamed animals could harm her dogs or even her young children.
The bookseller, who announced earlier this year that she was moving her business to the West Village, had previously said she had kept her dogs at her Westchester County home since the fatal attack last August.
Hudson did not respond to a request for comment.
