A heartbreaking incident unfolded at Canova Dog Beach in Indialantic on the morning of October 30, 2025, when a local couple’s dog was fatally attacked by two other dogs whose owner allegedly fled the scene without providing any contact information.
According to a public post made by D.J. Nugent in the Canova Beach Dog Pack group, their dog, Kilo, was attacked and killed around 8 a.m. by two poodle mixes — one described as white and black, and the other dark gray — being walked by a woman believed to be in her 60s.
Nugent wrote that they had noticed the woman struggling to control her dogs and kept Kilo close, but one of the poodles suddenly lunged, snatching Kilo out of his fiancé’s hands. The dog bit and crushed Kilo, inflicting a fatal chest wound. Despite the couple’s desperate efforts to save him, Kilo died within minutes of arriving at Aloha Animal Hospital.
“She made no effort to make her dog release or to stop the attack whatsoever,” Nugent wrote. “She even had the nerve to yell at me to stop hitting her dog at one point.”
