A Windsor family is looking for answers after finding their pet dog with injuries so severe it had to be put down.

The dog's heart-broken owner is now pleading for help.

The dog, Ozzy, was an eight-year-old black poodle. Last night, he was tied outside in the family's backyard.

His owner, Amber Kimmerly, stepped inside for a few minutes, then heard yelping.  She says what she discovered next was mortifying.

"He was my baby, he was my world,” says Kimmerly. “He's always been there when I needed something, always there to cuddle with.”

An unimaginable discovery that Kimmerly says shocked her to her core.

"All I saw was him curled up in a ball I thought maybe he hurt his paw something,” she says. “Then I picked him up and put him in my arms and saw that he was all bloody.”

She says her best friend was covered in blood, his jaw broken, teeth missing and a severe cut near his eye.

"There was no hope for it,” says Kimmerly. “It hurts a lot.”

Kimmerly says the dog was tied to this leash when the incident occurred.  The owner heard the dog yelping that's when she came outside and found him seriously injured.

"I picked him up, brought him in the house he was bleeding from his face,” she says.

In a panic, Kimmerly rushed Ozzy to the walker road animal hospital, where she was told it would be costly to bring him back to health.

"They said it would be a couple thousand dollars to fix everything,” she says.

She was forced to make a gut wrenching decision, she says she had no choice but to put Ozzy down.

"I already miss him so much,” she says.

Windsor police are investigating. On Friday afternoon, police said a necropsy was completed on the dog and results show that the injuries were almost certainly inflicted by another larger animal, most likely a dog.  

In the meantime, she's says there needs to be justice to stop animal cruelty.

Kimmerly has set up a Facebook page called Angels for Ozzy and a Gofundme account to help cover the cost of Ozzy's cremation. Whatever is leftover, she says she'll donate to the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Windsor police at 519-255-6700 ext. 4305, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 519-258-8477 (tips), online at www.catchcrooks.com, or submit a tip on facebook.