A WOMAN has told of the horrific moment when the dog she was walking was mauled to death in a Worcester park.

Demi Woods, who is now receiving counselling for the trauma, was walking Boo, a 12-month-old chihuahua, when he was attacked by four Staffordshire bull terriers.

“I ran towards him, I could hear him crying, and one of the dogs picked him up and shook him,” said Miss Woods.

“When I got to him the dog had dropped him. I picked him up and he was wet – it was blood.”

Boo belonged to 10-year-old Ellie Hannay, a relative of Miss Woods’ brother-in-law, and she had to break the news to Ellie’s sister-in-law.

Miss Woods was walking Boo, another chihuahua and a Jack Russell when the attack happened in King George V playing fields in Brickfields on Friday, September 23.

The 23-year-old and her mother had just sat down on a bench when Boo was attacked.

None of the dogs were on leads.

“We had been sat on the bench for probably less than a minute and these big dogs came over the hill,” said Miss Woods, from Blackpole.

“Boo saw them. He’s quite a nervous dog and he started running around in a circle and they chased him.

“The owner asked me if Boo was ok, but my main priority was to get him to the vets.”

A fellow dog walker drove Miss Woods and Boo to the vets but he was dead by the time they arrived.

“There’s no way to put it in a gentle way,” said Miss Woods.

“You have to just say the facts. I felt guilty but it was the dogs that killed him, I did everything I could to save him.

“You don’t expect to go on a walk and that happen.”

Boo was a present for Ellie after her previous chihuahua, Mini, went missing from her father’s home in Northwick Road, Worcester, last year.

Her mother, Pandy Watkins who has seven of her own dogs, said the terriers should have been muzzled.

She said: “People need to be made aware not to approach them. He has no control over them.”

A spokesman for Worcester City Council said there no policy for dogs to be kept on leads but it was the owner’s responsibility to keep them under control.

The owner of the terriers is described as being in his 30s, tall, with a large build and a bald head.

Anyone with information is urged to contact West Mercia Police on 0300 3333000, quoting OIS 0311-S-240911, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.