Shocking moment bloodthirsty pit bull savages shih tzu and its screaming female owner as they walked down quiet street, leaving both with serious injuries

A dog owner has shared shocking footage of the moment her shih tzu was savaged by a bloodthirsty pit bull.

Donna Cote was walking her dog Max when the animal charged at him on May 16.

The terrified owner quickly scooped him up but it was not enough to prevent the vicious dog from attacking.

She was her behind her home in the town of Greater Sudbury in Ontario when the horror unfolded.

 'I saw a girl coming down a street with a pitbull on a leash that looked like just a rope and I could see she obviously couldn't control the dog,' Cote told CTV.

Chilling footage shows the moment the pit bull charges towards her and Max.

Cote scoops him up but the dog lunges at him snapping its jaws and biting her arm in the process.

She lets out a blood curdling scream and drops Max who whines as the pit bull sinks its teeth in.

'My dog fell and then he picked up my dog by the neck until the dog went unconscious,' she explained, struggling to contain her emotion.

Cote was left with horrific bruising and bite marks on her arm following the incident. 

Luckily Max survived the ordeal, but the pit bull and its owner are still at large.

'I'm angry we don't have proper animal control people don't know how much in danger they are from dogs like this,' Cote added. 

Meanwhile, another resident from the same area also reported that her 13-year-old rescue dog Brandi was attacked by an out of control dog just days later.

The owner described seeing a 'big, powerful dog' across the street which ran over and latched onto her beagle shar pei mix.

She flagged down a police officer for help but as yet the culprit has not been found.