Saskatoon dog owner looking for witnesses after pet killed in dog attack at off-leash park

A Saskatoon dog owner said her dog was killed by two others at the Sutherland dog park; she's looking for witnesses, and to ensure the dogs never return to an off-leash park.

A Saskatoon dog owner is looking for witnesses after her beloved companion was killed in a dog attack at an off-leash park.

On Tuesday, Blossom De Bruin brought her 12-year-old dog, Jax, to Sutherland dog park. The pair would go several times a week. She thought Tuesday would be a normal afternoon walk.

“We had just entered the park and two bigger dogs came running accords and it just happened so fast,” said De Bruin.

She said she tried to pull the dogs — which appeared to be two pit bull-type breeds — off Jax.

“One of the dogs had him by the neck and the other one had him by the abdomen and that dog eventually lifted him up and shook him back and forth in his mouth and his abdomen ripped open,” she said.

De Bruin rushed Jax to the vet hospital, but his injuries were too severe and he died on the surgery table.

It still doesn’t feel real to her, she said.

“I saw him after he passed and I held him and I said goodbye,” she said.