Crocodile snaps up and kills dog at popular Mexican lagoon

Horrific moment crocodile brutally snaps up and kills dog at popular Mexican lagoon after it got too close to the water’s edge – while dozens of helpless onlookers shriek

  • Visitors at a park in Tampico, Mexico, witnessed a pet dog attacked and killed by a crocodile
  • The pooch apparently got near the edge of the water when the reptile bit him
  • Footage showed the crocodile slamming the dog over the water two times before it stopped and swam away 

This is the horrifying moment a crocodile brutally attacked and killed a puppy at a lagoon in northeastern Mexico.

The incident reportedly took place Monday after the pooch was able to get past the fencing area that separates the walking path from the lagoon at neighborhood park in Tampico, Tamaulipas.

The dog was wearing its collar when it was attacked by the reptile at the Laguna del Carpintero (Carpenter’s Lagoon).

Its owner has not been identified and there is not one visible in the video, but it is a popular area to walk and exercise.

Video footage shot by a bystander showed the crocodile biting down on the defenseless pooch and flipping it on the water twice before it stopped.

A dog was brutally attacked by a crocodile at a lagoon in the northeastern Mexican city of Tampico on Monday

The crocodile slammed whipped the dog over the water on two occasions before it swam away with it 

A second video captured the croc resting on the shallow side of the lagoon with the dog still clamped in its jaw.

Tampico Mayor Juan Pizaña urged residents to be vigilant of their children and to make sure that they use a leash when walking their pet dogs when visiting the lagoon.

On August 18, 2022, visitors watching turtles at the lagoon were left horrified when a crocodile swam past them with a man’s body in its jaw.

The victim’s lifeless body was recovered by firefighters inside a manhole about one block away from the Laguna del Carpintero.

It took an hour for the first responders to remove the metal sewage cover before they were able to tie a rope around the crocodile’s mouth and pulled him out. 

The crocodile was spotted on the shore of the lagoon with the dog clinging from its jaws after the horrific attack

That incident happened to take place two weeks after a Fernando Martínez fought a crocodile for nearly 25 minutes after the reptile bit his eight-year-old daughter María Martínez and tried to pull her under a lagoon in the Tamaulipas town of Altamira.

‘Several times he pulled my daughter to submerge her,’ Martínez digital news outlet Tamaulipas Express at the time. ‘I tried to open his snout so that he would release her, he bit her back on one arm, at one point the animal needed to breathe well and it was like that he let her go, I took the opportunity to take get her off.’

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