A gruesome dog attack in a Chicago suburb left two dogs dead and their owner covered in cuts and bruises.
Randy Quatrino struggled to find words as she recounted witnessing her two yorkies, Bogie and Tommy, be mauled to death in Streamwood on Aug. 20.
Both dogs were leashed up in the front yard of Quatrino’s home on the 100 block of Heather Lane in Streamwood, where she’s lived for 37 years, when the attack happened.
“It was carnage all over my lawn and blood, it was horrible,” she said.
Her oldest dog, Bogie, who was 16-years old and blind, stood no chance against the attack.
Quatrino said she did everything she could to defend her pups, but she was overpowered by her neighbor’s aggressive dogs.
“It was so gruesome, no one should have to see that,” she added.
The neighbor whose dogs attacked sent an apology letter to Quatrino, claiming his lawn care company left the gate open and the dogs got out.
“I wish there that there were some way that I could go back and change what happened,” the neighbors letter said. “Of course I cannot so all I can do is express my sympathy and that I never wished for any of this.”
When asked what the letter meant to her, Quatrino ripped it up, saying “that’s what it means to me.”
NBC Chicago reporter JC Navarrete went to the neighbor’s house to try to speak with him regarding his side of the incident. The owner was not home but spoke through his Ring camera, stating he was open to an interview with NBC Chicago in the future.
The neighbor’s dogs were taken away Tuesday for a 10-day quarantine period and it is unclear if they will be returned.
Quatrino is now leaning on her only surviving dog, Dexter, and her husband Dennis.
“We’re lost,” Dennis Quatrino said. “Five minutes changed our whole life.”
Streamwood police said they launched a dangerous dog investigation into the incident.