VIDEO: Dog's leash gets caught in elevator door as owner frantically struggles to save him from choking 'I thought I was going to watch him die!'

Terrifying footage shows the moment a dog's leash got trapped in an elevator door and he was nearly choked to death.

Shocking surveillance video sees Tamara Seibert struggling to save her 110-pound Rottweiler Vado as he flew to the ceiling of her Toronto condo lift.

Desperately pushing emergency buttons, she broke two fingers and shredded her hands as she tried to free him from his collar.

With the elevator plunging from the 11th floor down to the parking garage, she eventually managed to sound the alarm.

Luckily, his leash snapped and the doors opened just in time — throwing her beloved 5-year-old pet to the floor, and saving him from what she thought was an almost-certain death.

"I thought I was going to watch him die," Seibert told the Toronto Sun of the horrific March 2 incident.