Please scroll to the bottom for an update from the daughter of the victim

Rumors of a man violently attacked by a dog in Golden Gate Park have roiled social-media-using San Francisco dog lovers and left them on the lookout for the dangerous canine and its guardian.

According to a message posted to multiple SF-based, dog-focused groups and pages across Facebook (if you know me, you know I follow pretty much all of them), a man who was walking his dogs in the area between the Sunset and the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park was attacked by a female male "large grey pit mix."

According to the post, the male victim was throwing a ball for his two dogs when the allegedly attacking dog bit him on the calf, knocking the man to the ground. The dog then bit the man on both forearms, the post reports, before releasing him.

The dog's guardian, described as a woman in her mid-20s standing about 5'3" and weighing between 150-200 pounds, then bundled the attacking dog into a new white extended-cab short-bed Ford pickup and took off, according to the report.

The victim was rushed to the hospital with a broken arm and "multiple severe lacerations" to his leg and arm, the post reads. His dogs, named Oreo and Rosie, were not harmed in the attack.

According to the posted report, officers from the San Francisco Police Department were at the scene. However, when I called SFPD's media relations department this morning to confirm the details of the mauling, I was told that since I did not have the time the attack was reported, they are unable to search for the police report of the incident.

A call to San Francisco Animal Care and Control to see if they were aware of the attack was not returned at publication time. If you know the victim, or have more details on the incident, please drop me a line so I can continue to work to get confirmation and/or additional information from SFPD.

Here's the full report, as it's been posted to Facebook and elsewhere:

ATTENTION: Monday, Feb 8th 2016 there was a dog on human attack with multiple severe bite wounds in the outer end of GGP.

The location was the meadow b/w Sunset & Polo fields.

The owner or dog walker is a female 25ish approx 5'3 (hefty build) b/w 150 & 200 lbs fled in her new white extended cab short bed Ford pickup. Dog described as large grey pit mix. Owners 2 dogs were unharmed.

The victim says it was over the ball. The victim had thrown the ball and his dog had brought it back. And this dog had come up and mingled with the victim and his dogs. Then victim threw the ball down the path a second time. His dog caught it and brought it back and dropped it. The victim went over to pick up the ball and the pit bull also went for the ball. The victim immediately got chomped in the calf. Big chomp. The ball and chucker were on his right side. So the bite was from the right And it knocked him down.

He was on his knees. He spun around to defend and they were facing each other.

Then the dog attacked.

He got his left forearm. And he was punching the dog in the neck about three times and then the dog got his right forearm.The victim had two limbs down and the scary factor was way up. That is when the victim's dogs (Oreo and Rosie) intensity of barking went way up as well.

Rosie was 10 ft away. Oreo was right there. The victim was yelling at Oreo to get back. Thank god she listened. And that yelling and the other dogs distracted the pit bull. And he released the victim. And they separated.

The victim slowly and steadily moved away with Oreo and Rosie. The victim had his back to him. Holding his bloody arms. Slowly moving away with Oreo and Rosie sticking to him.

Somewhere around here the dog bit the woman who brought the dog. She got the dog. She got him to her truck.

The victim was not looking in that direction. He saw her corral him into her truck. She left with the attacking dog and gave no personal information to the victim.

The victim left with EMS to be rushed to the hospital. The SFPD were also at the scene.

Victim is far from okay. Multiple severe lacerations to leg & arm. Broken arm that cannot be casted till they get control of wounds.

Please help find this woman and her dog. Call the SFPD.

Once again. The attacking dog's walker/owner, female 25ish approx 5'3 (hefty build) b/w 150 & 200 lbs fled in her new white extended cab short bed Ford pickup. The dog is a female large gray pit bull mix.

Update 2/15: We got an email from the victim in this case, here it is:

Hey Eve,

I want to thank you for your and everyone’s support in getting the word out about this attack.

I wanted to give you a couple of details that were not correct …

First … it happened between 9:30 and 10 last Monday, February 8th.

Two corrections … it was a male dog. And he did not break his arm.

Everything else was about right. We are not sure if the girl was actually bit or if it was blood from the dog.

We called the Richmond Station to get the status as to what was going on last Thursday and they said the report was not written yet.

We are going down in person tomorrow morning to find out what is going on. We will be in touch after to give you an update.

I've asked her to get back in touch after the talks to SFPD, and will report back then.