Warning: These photos are completely heartbreaking.
Two dogs owned by Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the Canadian soldier who was killed in Ottawa on Thursday, were spotted peeking out from under a fence at his home.
Molly Hayes, a reporter at The Hamilton Spectator, tweeted a photo of this "sad sight" on Thursday.
Peter Power, a photographer with The Canadian Press, took a photo of the dogs too.
PHOTO: Emotional image of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's dogs at family home in Hamilton by @CdnPress photographer Peter Power pic.twitter.com/j2CaNHmh0q— The Canadian Press (@CdnPress) October 23, 2014
Cpl. Cirillo featured the dogs prominently in his Instagram photographs, where he called the German Shepherd "my baby girl."
A photo posted by Nathan Cirillo (@ncitaly) on Sep 9, 2014 at 10:29am PDT
A photo posted by Nathan Cirillo (@ncitaly) on Aug 8, 2014 at 4:51pm PDT
Cirillo was killed on Wednesday by 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who shot the soldier at close range as he stood guard at Ottawa's National War Memorial. Zehaf-Bibeau was later killed after he ran into the Canadian Parliament building, firing his weapon. Canadian officials are calling his attack an act of terrorism.