Moment pitbulls rip car apart to try and catch cat hidden in engine 

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.’

The two dogs began tearing into her Honda in a bid to reach the cat hiding inside (Picture: Fox30)

Christie Barr was shocked when she saw the security footage (Picture: Fox30)

The dogs left the car totalled after eating away at the metal (Picture: Fox30)

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’.

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.

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 Canada.

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