JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFOX/WJAX) – A Florida neighborhood is on alert after two dogs have been caught on video clawing their means right into a automotive to get to a cat hiding behind its engine.
Christie Barr awoke Sunday morning to search out in depth injury, estimated at as much as $3,000, had been performed to her automotive within the driveway. The insurance coverage firm towed it away.
“I thought somebody had maybe taken a BB gun and shot my car,” she stated.
It wasn’t till Barr known as the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and investigators went by way of safety video that she came upon the injury wasn’t attributable to a person however two dogs.
“If they can do that to metal on a car, they’d tear a human being up,” Barr stated.
Video taken round 3 a.m. exhibits the neighbor’s cat bounce behind the engine of Barr’s automotive shortly earlier than the dogs go after her, clawing their means into the car. They tore up the entrance bumper, entrance fender and two tires.
Still, the dogs by no means managed to succeed in the cat, which Barr says survived.
“There’s no doubt in my mind if they’d gotten that cat, she wouldn’t be here today,” she stated.
Barr provides she wouldn’t imagine what occurred to her automotive if weren’t for the safety digital camera footage.
“No one believed it was dogs until after they saw the video,” she stated.
Neighbors don’t know the place the dogs belong nor the place they’re now, and they’re involved for his or her security. Barr, who has lived within the space for 35 years, says she reached out to animal management, however nobody has responded thus far.
Meanwhile, she has this message for pet homeowners: “You need to take care of them. Don’t let them be out running the streets during the middle of the night.”
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