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A woman staying at a Calgary motel could only watch in horror Thursday afternoon as a pit bull attacked and killed her dog.

The dead dog’s owner, Anne, said she had just taken her Jack Russell, Trip, outside of the Traveller’s Inn on 16th Avenue N.W. for a walk.

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“I went around the corner and there was a dog in this SUV,” said a distraught Anne, who declined to give her last name.

“The guy had his windows down and that big, big dog jumped out and got Trip by the neck. He was shaking Trip around in his mouth. He latched onto Trip like there was no tomorrow.”

The owner of the vehicle came out, grabbed his dog and fled the scene in a pickup truck, said Anne.

A witness was able to provide police with a licence plate number.

She said police told her that the dog who attacked her pet was just cleared Wednesday from another incident.

“I guess he had done it before, the police said,” said Anne, who is visiting from Ontario.