As her beloved dog, Vado, was lifted into the air, his leash stuck between the closed doors in a descending elevator, Tamara Seibert watched on, terrified.
“I thought I was about to lose the love of my life (my puppy),” the Toronto resident wrote on her Facebook page, calling the experience “one of the most traumatic” of her life.
I thought I was about to lose the love of my life
Seibert was able to save her choking Rottweiler by freeing him from his collar, but she “mangled [her] hand in the process.” She reportedly broke two fingers.
“I thought I was going to watch him die,” she told the Toronto Sun. “I’ve never been so hysterical in my life.”
The incident was caught on her surveillance video nearly a month ago. Seibert posted the video to her Facebook page yesterday.
She warned friends to be careful, because “something so simple can go horribly wrong.”
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In a follow-up post, the 25-year-old Ryerson University student admitted she had been “reckless” in not watching Vado more closely.
“But just to put things in perspective I’ve lived in my building for almost 5 years so my dog and I have taken the elevators [approximately] 4,000 times,” she wrote. “It’s so routine.”
She wrote that she’d posted the video to draw attention to how dangerous it can be to get a leash or item of clothing, like a scarf or dress, caught between closed elevator doors.