SPRING, Texas – Stephanie Pinon, a Memorial Chase resident, says she was walking her dog, Saucony, when a loose dog charged them.

“He just started running right towards us. He just laid down and wouldn’t get back up,” she said.

Pinon took Saucony to the vet, where he was put to sleep because of his injuries.

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“I just didn’t want him in pain,” she said.

Pinon says this was her first encounter with this particular dog, but it’s the fifth time in recent years she’s dealt with aggressive, unleashed dogs in her neighborhood. She says a prior incident included a dog breaking through her fence.

A police report was filed.

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