CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Stories about pit-bull fighting or attacks are not new, but a Cleveland woman feels the pit bulls that attacked her dog were being trained to do just that.

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Fluffy the cocker spaniel was attacked by two pit bulls.

NewsChannel5's Paul Kiska reports that a cocker spaniel named Fluffy (pictured, left) was mauled by two pit bulls.

Dr. Bruce Wolf, a Cleveland Heights veterinarian, saved Fluffy's life. He believes that the pit bulls were in training to fight and to kill. He said that properly trained dogs would not have done this.

"If the owner took care of them, this would not have happened," Wolf said. "They should have been on a leash, muzzled."

Fluffy's owner, Bonnie Mayhew (pictured, below), said that she loves her pets and was sickened by the attack, which ended only after boards were thrown at the pit bulls.

"The man had them riding along, attacking other people's dogs," she said. "I know my dog wasn't the first, but I want to make sure it's the last of the attacks."

Mayhew said that other pets have been attacked near her home at East 130th Street and Union, and she believes that children could be next.

"They're being trained to fight, to kill," she said. "They already got a taste of it, and they're not going to stop doing it."

A Cleveland police officer who was driving by during the attack arrested 21-year-old Austin Mays, who was cited for possession and control of a vicious dog. Police said that he was driving a car that had been reported stolen in Berea, Ohio.

Mays told police that he was trying to sell the pit bulls when they jumped out of the car.

Mayhew doesn't buy his story.

"As much as I love dogs, I would like to see those dogs put down," she said.

But for now, she just wants Fluffy to come home.

Fluffy has a paralyzed leg and severe cuts to his stomach.

Officials at the Cleveland City Dog Kennel, where the pit bulls are being held, will decide what will happen to them.