To help with the cremation of Zeus

Hi my name is Brooklyn and I am starting this fundraiser in terms to help fund the cremation of Zeus the 17 week old puppy who got brutally mauled to death by 3 dogs yesterday in his own backyard. This is the 2nd time that the same 3 dogs have caused a significant impact and amount of pain on lives as they also attacked my other dog Raffie 2 years ago.

In February Zeus became apart of my life and he was a little staffy himself. Staffys are an amazing breed when given to someone who can raise them properly and not ruin their reputation. Zeus was a happy, well trained, extremely friendly and loving little puppy who put a smile to everyone’s face that got the chance to meet him. I work in the animal industry and sometimes I would bring him to work with me to get a bath or just have some socialisation time or even if someone was just having a rough day and wanted a cuddle with him. He was everyone’s best friend.

On the 8/05/25 I left for work at 10am for my close shift. I had gotten up at 7am and taken all of the dogs for a walk individually as I was doing training walks and working on loose leash walking. Zeus was the last one I took for a walk and he was such a good boy like usual. I then got home and was playing with him one on one and didn’t put him outside with the other dogs until it was 10 and I was running out the door because I was running late. I quickly gave them a bully stick each to keep them distracted for there morning. I then returned at 1:30pm for my lunch break which I always come home for because I love to see my dogs and lay with them on the couch to debrief my day with them so far. When I get home usually they are launching on my door with pure excitement but when I reached the door and said “hello my babies” no one was to be seen. I then walked into my backyard and was yelling there names and no one was coming so I went to walk to the side of my house to make sure the gardener had closed the gate properly and they hadn’t taken themselves for a walk but when I turned around I was confronted with my dogs all laying there next to each other. I knew straight away something was seriously wrong and ran over there. Raffie was trying to protect his brother and Posie was laying with Zeus and keeping his cold dead body warm. Some of the fence palings had fallen off and the staffys had pulled Zeus who is only 17 weeks old partially through even the wire fence. He was wedged with his neck and head laying loosely through the wire fence and I straight away started screaming no no no help me why god his just a baby. I then picked up each of my dogs and raced to lock them inside. I then ran back outside and called my partner and then my brother who is a police officer to help. I was absolutely hysterical trying to pull his lifeless body through the fence. As I was trying to pull him through the fence I could see the staffys all covered in my baby’s blood and getting extremely agitated and aggressive towards me for trying to remove his body. I then called the council when I realised that they will kill me to if I don’t move away. The council said they would send someone out and they would be there after they finished at another job. My brother called the police to my property as well as did my partner. When my brother arrived to my property he himself tried to pull Zeus through the fence and the dogs tried to attack him which he had to protect himself with a shovel.

When the police and animal control units arrived they started working on trying to free Zeus lifeless body through the fence so I could just cuddle him and give him one last cuddle. His body was so wedged through the fence that no one could get him out and it eventually took to having to get wire cutters to cut the fence to pull him out. The council then told me that it was really bad and I said “it’s nothing I haven’t seen before” referring to my dog Raffies brutal attack. Little did I know that when they would lay him in front of me that his entire neck was torn out and only his windpipe bone was still in his body. They had eaten his whole neck, part of his snout and tongue. This is when I told them to cover him and I just laid on his body sobbing and cuddling him saying “I’m so sorry mummy couldn’t protect you” I laid with him for a long time while the council tried to get the 3 evil dogs that the owners had brought inside of there property. Within this time the owner of the other dogs had asked to speak to me on the phone which I very quickly declined because I didn’t want to hear her lies and manipulation as I have heard it all before when the dogs previously ripped my fence down and mauled my other dog. Nothing she could say was going to bring my puppy back and it was only a week or 2 earlier that she had been rinsing me on Facebook saying I’m lying about her dogs and they are “friendly”.

This tragic accident should never have happened if I was listened to in the first place. Why did it take me to live through 2 extremely traumatic events before hopefully something will get done. I have questioned many times if she has internal links with the council which enables her to get away with so many things because the easier thought than thinking our justice system for our animals is this terrible. When her dogs got taken she was apparently crying. What does she have to cry about at least her dogs are still alive and breathing they just have to stay in a cage while it’s under investigation. While I have to wake up and re live that picture of my 17 week old puppies throat being eaten like a bear eating a salmon. It is 6am as I’m writing this and I haven’t slept a single minute because all I see every time I close my eyes is my dead puppy stuck lifeless in the fence getting eaten. I am now suffering extreme flashbacks and I’m going to be needing to seek therapy and medication to help calm my anxiety.

I need these dogs gone from society because they will not stop killing dogs ever. I left at 10am and my neighbour who walked past my house at 10:30am said she heard a commotion. That is just 30 minutes after I left. 30 minutes that would have made all the difference to my life. So my house is not a home anymore it’s a place of brutality and a constant reminder of the evil that lives in this world. Depending on the investigation her dogs may get put down. But why should she get to say goodbye to her dogs and watch them get put to sleep in a peaceful way when I never got to say goodbye to my baby who’s life was so young and innocent and taken from him in such a sickening way. I don’t think she deserves to say goodbye to her dogs or be with them when they get taken from this earth. I hope in there next life they get shown love and care and don’t get turned aggressive like they have in this world. While her dogs lay in a cage alive my puppy is laying in a fridge with no insides of his neck all cold when he should be alive and having a cuddle in my bed.