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Meet the Mutts.
A pack of junkyard dogs is roaming the sidewalks surrounding Citi Field, menacing visitors as they exit the ballpark.
“They came at me like a locomotive,” Elaine Feerick said, describing her encounter this month with a 70-pound pit bull and a shepherd mix “that looked like a wolf.”
It’s too bad the nine on the field don’t play nearly as aggressively as the canines outside, the beleaguered Met fan said.
“My friend, who’s terrified of dogs, ran for her life faster than I’ve ever seen her run before,” Feerick said. “I stood there and the pit bull rammed into me like a battering ram — amazingly, I did not go down.”
The stray dogs have been wandering across 126th Street from Willets Point’s no-man’s land of auto-body shops, and onto the stadium grounds for years, stadium security guards told The Post.
“The police and the security guards told me this happens all the time,” Feerick said. “The stadium employees stayed behind barricades, and after the dogs passed, a cop on a Segway came over to ask, ‘Are you OK?’ ”
Feerick said she was bruised but not seriously injured.
“What if I had been a child or an elderly person?” she said. “I can’t believe the Mets would allow this kind of behavior.”
A spokeswoman for the team said that it has been made aware of the dogs.
“We have reached out to the appropriate agencies to address the matter,” the team said in a statement.
A security guard said the dogs are practically season-ticket holders, but insist they are mostly benign.
“I see them running around. I don’t think they bother anybody,” the guard said. “They just seem to be peaceful, just living their own life. We keep them out of the stadium. I only see them on 126th Street.”
Inspectors with the city’s Animal Care & Control say any fan who sees one of the stray pit bulls should call 311.
The agency has not had any recent complaints about the animals, spokesman Richard Gentles said.