Two Philadelphia dog owners stood on and laughed as they dropped their pit bulls’ leashes and let them maul a family’s cornered cat, jeering and cheering the animals on until the cat’s owner came outside to stop the attack.
The Pennsylvania SPCA has distributed security camera footage that captured the attack in the city’s Frankford neighborhood on Tuesday, urging anyone who recognizes the dogs or their owners.
One of the men appears to notice the cat, then draw his dog’s attention to it before dropping its leash. The second man follows suit as the first man can be heard shouting ‘Get him’ and ‘Good boy,’ encouraging the animals while the men laughed.
The dogs lit upon the cat immediately, and still had the helpless animal in their grasp as its owner came outside.
The cat, named Buddy, suffered significant lacerations to his abdominal region and internal damage and is currently in critical condition, PSPCA’s director of Human Law Enforcement Nicole Wilson told NBC10.
