{"id":478700,"date":"2025-12-29T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:09:11","slug":"center-city-unleashed-dog-attack-leaves-puppy-with-broken-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478700\/","title":{"rendered":"Center City unleashed dog attack leaves puppy with broken leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tmlvqeakye09xibl.jpg\" alt=\" Puppy violently attacked by off-leash dog in Center City\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; An 11-month-old puppy named Stella is recovering after a violent attack by an unleashed dog in Center City, leaving her with severe injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Puppy attacked near Wanamaker Building\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Stella was attacked by an unleashed pit bull outside the Wanamaker Building, near Chestnut and Juniper streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Her owner, J. Bazzel, was walking her to work when the dog, allegedly owned by a homeless person, lunged at Stella and crushed both bones in her front left leg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dr. Erik Zager from Philadelphia Animal Specialty and Emergency treated Stella, noting that while the attack was not life-threatening, it could have been fatal if the bite had been elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Stella is now recovering in a cast after undergoing surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Community response and ongoing investigation\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">After Bazzel shared Stella&#8217;s story on Facebook, others reported similar encounters with the same dog near the Wanamaker Building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dr. Zager emphasized the importance of keeping dogs on leashes to prevent such incidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/departments\/philadelphia-parks-recreation\/about\/dog-regulations-and-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia law <\/a>requires dogs to be on a leash no longer than six feet in public areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Bazzel has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/95e7a2607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> to help cover the $9,000 veterinary bill incurred from the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The investigation by Philadelphia police is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pets and Animals<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; An 11-month-old puppy named Stella is recovering after a violent attack by an unleashed dog in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,50,1448,2830,8047,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-478700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pets-animals","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115805380011749825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}