THIS is the awful moment a 911 operator told a screaming mum to slit her pitbull's throat as it mauled her baby to death in their front yard.

In a harrowing audio recording, the dispatcher can be heard telling a distraught Miranda Harrell to run into her home and grab a weapon like a steak knife, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

5 Tragic Triniti Harrell was mauled to death by the family pitbull Credit: ABC

After the mum replies that she can't leave her one-year-old daughter, Triniti, alone, he adds: "It will take you 30 seconds to run in the house and grab it."

Moments later, after Miranda gets hold of a knife, the dispatcher says: "Grab him by one ear and cut along the bottom of his neck. He's going to let go.

"It's going to release his jaw muscles."

She then yells back: "This knife is too dull.

"Please get somebody now!"

5 The pitbull fatally savaged the poor child in the families front yard Credit: Facebook

5 Distraught Miranda Harrell tried everything she could to save her little girl Credit: Facebook

5 Heartbreaking audio gives a terrifying insight into the mum's horror as her daughter is savaged by the hound Credit: ABC

In response, the operator tells her emergency crews are rushing to the scene in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, "as fast as they can".

Tragic Triniti died in hospital just days after the attack - which was only stopped when an Edgecombe County deputy shot the hound.

Cops said the youngster had been playing outside with her mum when the six-year-old pitbull started 'thrashing' her around, WRAL.com reports.

In the call, she can be heard screaming: "Help me, she's dying."

The operator then asks her: "Can you get hold of anything - a pot, pan, shovel, anything you've got around your house? Hit him with it."

He tells her to bash the dog "right in the centre of the top of his head", adding: "If you hit him hard enough, you'll knock him out."

5 The tragedy struck in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, US, last week

Heartbreakingly, Miranda yells back: "He won't stop!"

The operator continues: "Find something and hit him with it."

The mum responds: "I'm hitting him as hard as I can."

Finally he tells her to get a knife and slit the dog’s throat.

However, despite her efforts to cut her dog, Miranda finds the blade "too dull".

Top vet reveals the one thing you should do to stop a dog attack... after one-year-old Triniti Harrell was killed by family pitbull

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Triniti was rushed to hospital after the horrific attack on Monday, October 22.

Despite the efforts of medics at UNC Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill - and other hospitals - to save her life, she died days later.

An online obituary says she was surrounded by her loved ones when she died.