A woman said she saw her tiny toy poodle crushed in the jaws of a Siberian husky as they walked at Jackadder Lake in Woodlands.
A second dog was jumping at her pet, she said.
“My dog was yelping and yelping and when he was half-dead the husky literally spat him out,” Matti Dickinson said.
But the owner of the husky said the poodle provoked the incident by running towards his two dogs, which were on leads.
Tony Cousins (70) said his eight- year-old husky Tova mouthed the dog and was reprimanding it, as it would with a puppy, for running into its space.
“Unfortunately, it was so small and frail it was injured,” he said. “When Siberian huskies play, they grab each other by the neck and shake.” He said he called police after Ms Dickinson phoned him and turned up at his house.
“She was pounding on the door,” he said. “It is something that has shaken us very much.” Ms Dickinson said she looked him up in the phone book and called to tell him her dog was dead.
“I asked him, ‘what if it had been a child?'” she said.
Ms Dickinson (45), who owns a manufac- turing company, said she was walking her dog Pucci, a toy poodle hauhau, at Jackadder Lake at about 5pm on Wednesday last week.
She had left her two daughters, aged 11 and 15, at home nearby.
She said police arrived at her house while she was at the vet’s.
She bought Pucci as a puppy two years ago for $1200.
“He was my little boy ,” she said. “He fitted inside my handbag.” Ms Dickinson said after the attack a man drove her and her dog to a vet. ‘crossed with a chi-
