AUSTRALIA -- A Lysterfield woman whose pooch died in her arms after it was savagely mauled, wants the owner of the killer dog to come forward.
Vickie Cooper’s 13-year-old maltese Max was standing at her back fence on April 27, as he did every day, watching through a small hole as cars went by on Napoleon Rd.
Ms Cooper said she heard a dog bark and “looked up to see Max being dragged through the hole”. I went up over the back fence and found Max convulsing, the other dog had clamped on to his head and ripped through it,” she said.
“It was pretty horrific, one of his eyeballs was hanging out and I was covered in blood; he died in my arms.”
Ms Cooper said she had heard a male voice call his dog, but they failed to stop after the incident.
She has now called on that person to come forward. “I want this rotten mongrel to know what he’s done to our family, I don’t know how they sleep at night.”
Ms Cooper has been looking after Max and Noodle for two years. The dogs belonged to her sister Brenda, who died from cancer in 2009, and she plans to scatter Max’s ashes near Brenda’s.
“Brenda had no children and they were like her babies.”
Council corporate development director Mark Dupe said the council was investigating.
Vickie Cooper’s 13-year-old maltese Max was standing at her back fence on April 27, as he did every day, watching through a small hole as cars went by on Napoleon Rd.
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| Vickie Cooper with Noodle at the hole in her fence where 13-year-old dog Max was dragged through and mauled to death by another dog. |
Ms Cooper said she heard a dog bark and “looked up to see Max being dragged through the hole”. I went up over the back fence and found Max convulsing, the other dog had clamped on to his head and ripped through it,” she said.
“It was pretty horrific, one of his eyeballs was hanging out and I was covered in blood; he died in my arms.”
Ms Cooper said she had heard a male voice call his dog, but they failed to stop after the incident.
She has now called on that person to come forward. “I want this rotten mongrel to know what he’s done to our family, I don’t know how they sleep at night.”
Ms Cooper has been looking after Max and Noodle for two years. The dogs belonged to her sister Brenda, who died from cancer in 2009, and she plans to scatter Max’s ashes near Brenda’s.
“Brenda had no children and they were like her babies.”
Council corporate development director Mark Dupe said the council was investigating.
(Knox Leader - May 10, 2011)
