NEW YORK - A Bronx man is recovering after several of his fingers were chopped off by a man with a machete. It happened at 11:24 a.m. Friday on Southern Boulevard near East 178th Street. The victim, 34,

One of the victim's family members says the attack happened after a dog dispute in the West Farms section of the borough on Friday. CBS News New York's Dave Carlin reports.

As things escalated, the attacker yanked out a machete intending to attack his rival’s dog — but the victim stepped in to protect his pooch, cops said.

It happened Friday just after 11:30 a.m. in the West Farms section. Police say the 34-year-old man was walking his dog when it barked at a stranger.

Surveillance video captured the moment a machete-wielding man sliced off the fingers of a man walking his dog on the streets of New York City. Tayquon Young, a man from the Bronx, had four of his fingers sliced off in the alleged encounter Friday,

A Bronx man who lost four fingers protecting his beloved pit bull from a machete-wielding stranger had to have them surgically re-arranged to account for a missing digit, the stunned victim told the.