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Dr. Amy Bleyer and her rescued dog, Bolt. Residents of Bleyer’s building say the dog’s vicious, has bitten several people and want the crazed canine gone.

This dog's bite is much, much worse than its bark — and a lot more piercing, too.

Residents of a W. 27th St. building are running scared from Bolt, the chomp-crazy canine accused of biting eight people over the last two years while menacing his owner’s neighbors.

“We’ve all been made to live in terror,” said rattled resident John Kalish.

Kalish, 60, said the Cujo of Chelsea tore a totebag from his hand during a dreadful December elevator ride.

“The dog started barking at me,” the freelance radio reporter recounted. “I was in one corner of the elevator, and as far away as I could be.”

Bolt, a white-haired mixed breed dog, is causing a lot of trouble in a Chelsea building, and the health department is weighing the best course of action for the biter.

The white-haired mixed breed’s other targets reportedly include passersby on the street, building guests and roiled residents.

The building superintendent claims he was left bleeding by an October attack in the apartment of the dog owner, Dr. Amy Bleyer, and a woman walking past just 12 days ago felt the snap of the unmuzzled Bolt’s incisors.

A mother and daughter living in the building were nipped three times combined, according to neighbors.

“Every time I use the stairs, the dog is barking like he wants to break the door,” said building super Adis Saletovic, whose arm was pierced by the pooch.

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Adis Saletovicm, the super at the W. 27th St. building where a white-haired dog named Bolt has been biting tenants, says even he was bit by the pooch.

“I know she loves the dog, but the dog is really aggressive,” he said.

Bleyer — a doctor who runs a private practice and teaches at the NYU Langone Medical Center — says she adopted the white pooch as a rescue pet from the North Shore Animal League in 2010. Bolt is seeing a behavioralist to curb his wicked ways, and divorced mom Bleyer says the medium-sized mutt has become a furry security blanket for her little boy.

“I have an 8-year-old son, and (Bolt) is his best friend,” Bleyer said. “My son witnessed a very traumatic divorce.”

The NYPD confirmed two police responses for dog bites at the building — the latest on Feb. 6, when the passerby was chomped on the back of her knee. Cops filled out a dog bite form, which is automatically forwarded to the city Health Department.

The Health Department is investigating. Sanctions can range from ordering the owner to muzzle the dog to ordering the pet’s relocation to a new home.

Kalish casts his vote for a move: “We can’t live like this anymore.”

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