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, was rushed to an area hospital in stable condition.

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.