Pit bull attack in Propsect Park yesterday

I just wanted to warn people about a really nasty pit bull that my dog and I encountered yesterday in Prospect Park, and her incompetent owner.

I have a rather large (about 55 lbs) chocolate lab mix (named Lola) who gets along with all dogs she meets in the park. She loves to chase and be chased and plays well with most big dogs. Yesterday morning, during off-leash hours in the north part of the meadow, she was running around like a crazy lady, having fun with a German shepard and a sandy-colored mut. These two dogs were kind of ganging up on Lola, but in a fun, playful way. All of a sudden, a light brown and white pit bull approached the group and just started to attack Lola out of nowhere. The other dogs didn't really join, but this pit just kept biting her, scaring the sh*t out of her. After the first attack Lola (my dog) literally was foaming at the mouth out of fear.

The pit's owner, who is a young, white woman in her late 20s/early 30s was standing far off, yapping with another woman, not even paying attention to her dog. I started yelling at her that she needed to control her dog, and she helplessly cried out, "I'm sorry, he's in training" ("Oh, no, I'm sorry, you're right, that totally makes it okay for him to attack my dog...train away"). She mentioned that she had the electric collar for her dogs but either it wasn't doing anything, or she was too dumb to know how to operate it (or just not paying attention to her dog), but whatever the reason, it didn't stop her dog. As we started walking north through the meadow getting ready to leave, about a minute later the f*cking pit followed us, and started attacking Lola AGAIN. The attack went on for about a minute until this woman finally approached (why wasn't she keeping an eye on him/why didn't she leash him after the first attack?) and before trying to control her own dog, she repeatedly asked, "is that the same dog he was attacking before?" WHY DOES THAT MATTER? Yes, it was the same dog, but who cares, just do something! My fiance tried to separate Lola from the pit but that didn't stop him from continuing to bite her, so my fiance ultimately let Lola go so that she wasn't so defenseless. I was too scared of the pit to even pull him off of her, since I have NO idea how to actually control that kind of dog and didn't want to get mauled myself. It took the help from another kind man passing by who knew to grab the pit by his legs to restrain him and keep him away. I started screaming at the woman, as did many other onlookers, that she needed to get her dog on a leash asap.

I have a feeling this woman recently adopted him and has absolutely NO idea how to handle him. This is probably not an uncommon situation. But it is *so* unacceptable to bring him to the park, where there's a wonderful community of dogs, and let him loose to attack others, while standing by idly, perhaps even afraid of her own dog.

I don't usually post to this board, but I figured there was a tiny chance that this woman is reading this, and she would get this message: you need to never come back to the park again unless your dog is properly trained or on a leash. If you can't learn to control your dog, you need to give him back, or give him to someone who can. You and your dog's behavior yesterday was completely unacceptable and you scared this sh*t out of me, my fiance, our dog, and a number of other people in the park. If anyone else saw this happen/knows who this woman is, please please pass this message on to her too, if you ever see her again and her dog is off-leash. Thanks.