An NHS staff nurse told how she witnessed a man 'beat and kick the living daylights' out of his dog on her way to work.
The nurse, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the appalling incident happened on Sunday morning (April 11) around 7am.
She was in a taxi on Smithdown Road when she asked the driver if he could make a stop.
The nurse said: "I was going to work in a taxi and I asked him to shop at the Shell garage while I went to the cash machine.
"I went to the cash point and I could hear this screaming and shouting but there was no one around.
"I saw this litter picker walking up, and then I heard this man shouting and screaming. I thought at first he was shouting at the litter picker so I just stood there staring over at him.
"But he wasn't, the litter picker crossed over and I saw the fella was chasing a dog and booting hell out of it.
"It went into the doorway over the road, I think it might have been the old handyman store.
"The dog was cowering in the corner and he was booting hell out of it.
"When I got back in the car I said to the taxi driver have you seen what he's doing to that dog? The man had started walking back up to the bus stop.
"He said he couldn't see anything because of the pillar in front of the car where it was parked.
"As we were travelling back up towards work, the taxi driver stopped by the bus stop. The fella was there but now he was just shouting at the dog."
The nurse said watching the man attack his dog - which she said was a sandy coloured Staffy-type dog - made her "feel ill," adding: "Especially as I couldn't do anything about it as I was on my own at seven o'clock in the morning."
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She describes the man as in his late 40s, around 5ft 6in, slim build wearing a woolly hat and had a black and red backpack on.
She later posted details of the sickening incident on Facebook, describing the man as beating and kicking the "living daylights out of his poor dog."
Merseyside Police have confirmed that they had received a report of the dog being attacked and had advised that the RSPCA were contacted with the details.
The ECHO has also approached the garage to try and obtain CCTV footage of the incident.
