A Yorkshire terrier visiting another pooch’s apartment for a breeding call was shot dead by hooded Bronx home-intruders — despite the residents’ best attempts to fend off the attackers with a power drill.

Tragic stud Hercules, 7, was brought to 54-year-old Samuel Pesante’s seventh-floor apartment at NYCHA’s John Adams Houses to breed with Pesante’s Yorkie Krystal around 8 p.m. Sunday — but they were unable to consummate, Pesante told The Post Monday.

“Someone knocked on the door and as soon as I opened it, I saw two guys wearing black jackets and hoods. They had no gloves, no mask.”

“They pulled out a gun on me,” he said, adding, “As soon as I saw the gun I thought that was it for me.”

Pesante said that one of the thugs “tried to force his way into the apartment” and then his tough-as-nails wife, Eladia, 40, sprang into action and shoved a power drill into the gunman’s leg.

“My wife also bit this guy’s hand and in the process his gun went off and shot [the] dog, which was at a distance from the door,” Pesante said.

Pesante, who works as a mechanic, said that once the couple closed and locked the door on the assailants, one of them shot two times through the apartment door.

Eventually the gunmen fled and Pesante noticed that the tragic pooch had a bullet hole in its stomach — and “within minutes” the dog “was gone.”

“The bullet that shot Hercules could have killed my daughter [Samara] because she was seated right there next to where that bullet hit,” said Pesante, who added that he now wants to leave the apartment where his family has lived for eight years.

“This is the second time my house is getting broken into,” he said. “In September, someone came and broke into my apartment and stole household goods.”

Pesante said that before he moved into the Melrose apartment “this house used to be a crack house . . . We had random people knocking on the door.”

No one else was injured in Sunday’s shooting and police say the gunmen remain at large.

“My wife is my hero and I love her more than ever,” Pesante said as he praised his wife for fighting back.

“I am just trying to be a father and living for my family,” he said. “My 8-year-old daughter is now traumatized. Every time I open the door, she tells me not to open because she is scared.”

Police took Hercules’ body — much to the owner’s dismay, Pesante said.

“I showed her the bullet holes and that’s how she started crying because she heard what happened on the news,” he said. “She doesn’t want to talk to me. She wants her dog back dead or alive.”