In a terrifying attack by two XL American bullies, a little Jack Russell had its mouth chewed off.

Greg McCosker was walking his 11-month-old puppy George in Liverpool’s Princes Park when the little Jack Russell was assaulted and its jaw was snapped off, leaving it just hanging by the skin on both sides.

George had to have four hours of surgery to rebuild his jaw using pins and an external metal cage.

Greg, 35, said it was his fault his dog was attacked because he let him off the leash.

“I had him off the lead with his harness on, but he suddenly took off and I called after him, but being a puppy his recall wasn’t the best,” stated Greg.

“He passed two XL bulldogs. They were on the lead and basically, George got too close and startled them.”

“One of them literally pinned him down and both me and the owner were trying to get him off.”

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“I had my hand inside the dog’s mouth and eventually he released him, and George ran away.”

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“The bone was broken entirely and the whole of my arm was covered in his blood,” he told.

“I grabbed his mouth and held it together as best I could.”

When Greg arrived at the clinic, Nikki Butterworth, the head veterinary nurse, told him she had “never seen anything to this magnitude before.

“He was lucky because he was so little and the bone wasn’t fully grown at that moment,” Nikki said.

The puppy’s entire head was shaved before he was fitted with an external fixator, which supports the side of his jaw and holds the bone together until it heals.

“George had to walk around with them for six weeks to allow the bone to heal, taking care not to dislodge them. After the operation, he quickly became a puppy again,” continued Nikki.

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