A routine walk in a Queens park turned into a nightmare for a dog owner — whose cocker spaniel was snatched from her and turned up dead two days later.

Lora Panossian, 29, was shattered by the news that the body of her tawny-colored pet, Ginger, was found by workers in Crocheron Park in Bayside on Tuesday afternoon.

“She’s not doing OK,” said a friend, Lamont Paung, 28. “It’s important we get more information about what happened.”

Earlier Tuesday, a heartbroken Panossian told The Post how the two creeps who grabbed the pup first tried to be friendly and even petted Ginger before the dognapping.

“It’s disgusting that someone would do that . . . She is like my family,” she said.

Panossian said that she was walking Ginger along a dimly lit trail in the park at 10 p.m. Sunday when the fiends asked about her dog.

“Two men, around my age, came towards me,” said Panossian. “They were friendly­ ­. . . asking questions about my dog, so I didn’t think anything of it,” she recalled.

But the men suddenly dropped their nice-guy charade and turned on her.

Within seconds, one of them punched Panossian in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her, while the other scooped up the 25-pound dog and fled down a park stairway, she said.

“While he was stroking Ginger, the other guy punched me,” Panossian said, who had trouble catching her breath from the blow.

“He punched me so hard that I keeled over onto my left side,” she said.

“I got up and I was screaming for her, but they were gone.”

Ginger, a sociable pooch who loved to cuddle and eat pizza, barked furiously as her owner was pummeled, Panossian said.

“She was barking really loud. She saw me fall to the ground and I was screaming her name,” she said, adding that Ginger then stopped barking.

“Maybe he held her mouth shut,” she said. “But I don’t know. It happened so fast.”

Panossian, an insurance biller, said she has not been able to go to work since the traumatic attack.

“I really just want my dog back safely,” she said early Tuesday. “I feel useless.”

The distraught dog owner, who had Ginger since the pooch was 4 months old, said that she’d never felt threatened taking the pup for her regular nightly walk through the park.

“It’s a safe area. I’m completely blown away that this happened,” she said., adding that she usually walks her dog with her roommate and his pup through the park, but has “never had a problem walking alone.”

Pet owners who describe Crocheron Park as “safe” were shocked to hear about the dog-knapping.

Renee Schoenbrum, 40, said that the green space is “one of the few parks people feel safe walking in at night. It’s really sad to hear.”

Friends are asking people for any information about the heartless attackers.

“Our community cannot allow for this kind of deplorable behavior to go unnoticed and unpunished,” said a post on a Facebook account set up for Ginger.

“Any information at all will be greatly appreciated.”

Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli