The bulldog shot dead with two other dogs after savagely mauling a woman had eaten his own pups days earlier, its owner has admitted to Daily Mail Australia.
The three crazed animals tried to eat Jordan Garrett alive after the attack at a home in Dandenong in Melbourne’s south-east just before 10am on Thursday.
Police had to open fire on the dogs as they tore Ms Garrett apart, shooting two dogs five times and another three times before the carnage was brought to a stop.
Now the owner, who Daily Mail Australia is calling Jenny, has revealed how her two pets – male Johnson bulldog Snookie and female pitbull terrier LaLa – had been raised alongside five young children.
Still wearing her blood-drenched T-shirt from the previous day’s attack, she explained her ex-partner’s bulldog, Shady, was the third dog killed by police.
The victim was her ex-partner’s new girlfriend, said Jenny.
Cops had attempted to stop the mauling using capsicum spray but they continued ripping at Ms Garrett and had to be shot dead.
Video captured the gruesome attack, but the footage is too disturbing to publish.
Jordan Garrett (pictured) was savaged by the animals at property on Ross Street in Dandenong, Melbourne ‘s southeast, shortly before 10am on Thursday
The Ross Street property where a young woman was attacked by three dogs on Thursday
Speaking on the front lawn of the property where the dogs were killed, Jenny said she had just returned from the local vet clinic where she farewelled her beloved pets, which she had placed together in a final embrace before cremation.
Jenny had left her two dogs in the care of her ex-boyfriend, whose partner of just four months was mauled by the animals.
The mother-of-five said she had raised Sookie and LaLa from pups. Sookie was aged three while LaLa was about to turn two.
‘I’ve had them since they were six weeks old,’ she said. ‘They were beautiful dogs.
‘Look at me, I’m covered in blood from them. I’ve just been at the vets to say my last goodbye.’
The bullet-riddled bodies of the dogs were left in the backyard by police after they had been shot dead.
Jenny claimed the dogs’ drastic change in personality had been caused by outside influences triggered by recent changes at her ex-boyfriend’s Ross Street property, where the attack took place.
She said she had dumped the body of the third dog in the attack, belonging to her former partner.
‘I put that dog in the hard rubbish bin,’ she said. ‘They brought a truck and I lifted that dog and put it in it.
‘I thought they were coming in a vehicle, but it was a hard rubbish truck.’
Jenny, who does not live at the property where the attack happened, said she had split with her boyfriend about a year ago.
‘Sookie and Lala were our dogs and then I left him and he got another one,’ Jenny said.
The bodies of the slain dogs were visible in the backyard
The Ross Street property is littered with rubbish and has several broken windows
Ms Garrett (pictured) remains in a critical condition at the Dandenong Hospital and police are investigating
Shady had only recently given birth to four puppies but a couple had been eaten by the pups’ father, Sookie.
‘Sook ate a couple,’ Jenny said. ‘Because they don’t separate them … he’s male, that’s what they do.’
The devastated dog owner said she believed the victim had been attempting to get her dogs to ‘like her’.
‘And she went out there,’ Jenny said. ‘You cannot go outside because Sookie kept biting people.’
Jenny dismissed reports her dogs had become agitated by an earlier visit from police, who had arrested a youth at the property over an outstanding warrant.
‘I heard that on the news too. I heard it was her dogs,’ she said. ‘It was my f***ing dogs that got shot. Five bullets in each.’
Police fired a total of 19 shots in the chaos, 13 of which hit their mark, Jenny said.
Several puppies were eaten by Sookie the bulldog before the savage attack on a woman. STOCK IMAGE (NOT SOOKIE)
A youth had earlier been arrested at the property on an unrelated warrant issue
Police were faced with frightening scenes upon entering the backyard of the property
Despite LaLa’s role in the attack, Jenny insisted her pitbull had been a gentle soul when in her care.
‘Don’t put in the media “pitbull this, pitbull that” because that dog, I tell you, was a beautiful dog. She was beautiful,’ Jenny said.
She insisted she had treated her dogs well while in her care.
‘I’m not a junkie,’ she added. ‘I probably look like one right now because I haven’t slept and I’m covered in blood.’
Ms Garrett remains in a critical condition at the Dandenong Hospital and police are investigating.
It has now emerged that Ms Garrett had been attacked by one of the animals earlier in the week, according to a neighbour who said the dogs had been a concern for a while.
‘I was home sick from work, and I heard screaming and smashing,’ the neighbour told The Age.
‘Then police came, and the shooting began.’
It comes as shocking CCTV footage has emerged of an attack allegedly involving one of the animals in July.
The footage, published by the newspaper, shows a large white and brown dog mauling a much smaller Shiba Inu, which squeals and screams in pain.
The Shiba Inu’s owner yells out and falls to the floor during the attack before a male bystander runs over and starts kicking and punching the larger dog in an attempt to get it to stop.
The man shouts ‘let go’ and ‘no stop’ repeatedly as he tries to prise the dog away.
The Greater Dandenong City Council said it had received multiple complaints about the dogs at the property and was prosecuting a resident at the house, who is not the victim, over the July attack.
The matter is due to go to court in November.
Several dogs remained inside the Dandenong home on Friday.
A neighbour who lives on the same street said there were five dogs in total at the government housing property.
It’s understood the woman lives at the home with several others.
‘I was just walking home and there was lots of yelling and screaming,’ the neighbour told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Then police came and you just heard gunshots. I saw the lady getting put into the ambulance and she was in a very bad way.’
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