A "friendly" dog who was born on a beach in Spain and travelled a thousand miles to make a new home with his owner in Liverpool had its throat torn open in a "brutal" attack.
Zeus the miniature Doberman Pinscher was being walked by owner Bartholomew's friends Jose Rivero, 25, and Sharon De Igartua, 22, along Great Georges Street near the Baltic Triangle at around 8.10pm on November 24 when he was savaged by two beige-coloured "pitbull type" dogs that were running off-lead.
Jose, from Toxteth, said: "One of them just went for him and jumped on him. It bit him, threw him up in the air. The other dog came and grabbed him and he got bitten on the left side of his neck. He had a huge cut on the left side of his face, he had holes in his neck, he was bleeding out. Half of his neck was torn open."
