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A Toronto man has been charged after a heart wrenching photo allegedly showed the moment he gathered his four large dogs and hurried away from an arthritic 81-year-old man whose dachshund had just been mauled to death.

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Police say Kiriakos Nendos was walking his four cane corso mastiffs without a leash in Centennial Park last Wednesday morning when they viciously attacked Dacky.

Kurt Haupt was putting his walking stick back in his car when he heard a shout. He turned around and four giant dogs were barrelling toward his friendly little daschund.

“The first dog bit her in the back and she was dead right there,” Haupt said as he relayed the “very sad story” of the last 10 to 15 seconds of his beloved companions’s life.

“That’s all it took,” he said. Dacky let out a little yelp as the dogs pounced.

Haupt, who is childless and never married, said Dacky “was not just a dog. It was just like a kid.”

He first met Dacky when she was just two weeks old and barely the size of his palm. He returned to pick her up when she was about six weeks old and cared for and loved her for the next 14 years.