To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This is the terrifying moment two pit bulls ripped apart a car in an attempt to reach a cat hiding inside it. Christie Barr woke to damages estimated to be worth at least £2,300 and called the
police to investigate, thinking her car could have been vandalised. But security footage revealed the true culprits were two dogs tearing apart her vehicle in the middle of the night. The cat which was hiding in Ms Barr’s car engine has survived, but the canines remain missing somewhere in Jacksonville,
Florida . Ms Barr told Fox 8 Live : ‘I thought somebody had maybe taken a BB gun and shot my car. ‘There’s no doubt in my mind that if they had gotten that cat, she wouldn’t be there today. No one believed it was dogs until after they saw the video.’ She and other residents of the normally quiet Floridian suburb have appealed to the dog owners to control their animals, because ‘if they can do that to a car, they can do it to a person’. Conjoined twin who shares body with sister marries army veteran Two-year-old girl’s dad and grandad drown trying to save her from hotel pool Hospital carries out
abortion on wrong woman in horror mix up Easter travel chaos for hundreds of Brit tourists with 'three hour' airport queues For now, Ms Barr’s car is totalled, but she said she’s relieved it was her car and not the cat that was hurt. Both the ownership and breeding of pit bulls were banned in the
UK by the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991 – and they’re not the only country where these canines are prohibited. In 1991, the UK government decided to ban pit bulls in response to a slew of incidents involving vicious, often unprovoked attacks, by this particular breed of dog, on humans. Three other dog breeds outlawed in the Dangerous Dogs Act along with the pit bull terrier: The UK isn’t the only country to ban pit bull terriers because of potential dangers. They are banned in many countries including Australia,
New Zealand,
France, Denmark, Norway, Hong Kong, Israel,
Italy, Malta,
Spain, Switzerland and Cyprus, plus in many US states and in many towns and cities in
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