Birmingham mum shares horrifying moment cat mauled by dogs in driveway

This is the horrifying moment a ‘beautiful’ cat was mauled by two dogs in a city lane. Mog was seen relaxing before two large dogs, a suspected XL Bully and a Pitbull, ran around the corner and dragged him to the ground.

The injured animal escaped and survived the vicious attack, but the Rubery family, who took him in as a stray, now face a £3,000 vet bill. They launched a GoFundMe to help cover costs following the July 20 ordeal.

Mum Sarah Hewson said they had no idea why their cat disappeared and wouldn’t return for food until they saw the shocking CCTV footage above. Agreeing to share the clip, she said she wanted to let people know what happened because it could easily have been her nephew in the car at the time.

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Mrs Hewson said: “I have a young grandson and I hate to think what might have happened if he had been there instead of Mog. What the dogs did is absolutely horrific.

“A lot of people around here have XL thugs, but they’re responsible for muzzleing them and recording them.” Mog came into the family as a stray and has been part of their lives for eight years because his owner could not be traced, meaning the Hewsons will be responsible for his vet bills.

Of the incident, the mother-of-three recalled: ‘He was at the back door waiting to be fed so I fed him and he went around the back garden and into the lane. Obviously, when all this. it happened that we were not aware of anything.

“So from the CCTV, he stood in the driveway and a lady, a dog on a lead and a dog on a lead came. And the way the dog went around the wall, he didn’t stand a chance.

“He must have run off but we didn’t know so I suddenly became concerned because he didn’t come back to eat at night and then on Sunday morning he wasn’t there.

“It was my son who said on Sunday, ‘I heard a lot of yelling and screaming outside on Saturday, I’m just worried in case something happened to the cat.’ From here we looked at our CCTV.”

She continued: “We were all in a panic, searching everywhere, our garden, neighbours’ gardens, a playground and a park behind our house. We were looking for him in the bushes, stopping dog walkers, anyone we could see around.

“He just didn’t come back. We thought the longer he was there, the more he wouldn’t survive the attack.” But on Monday morning, against all odds, Mog was found in a wooden shed in their garden.

“He probably crawled home, he likes to sleep there. Even the vet said they don’t know how he got home with the injuries he did. At the vets they call him the miracle cat.”

West Mercia Police have launched an investigation which is ongoing. A force spokesman said: “We received a report at around 6.15am on Saturday July 20 that a cat on Callowbrook Lane in Rubery had been attacked by a dog. An investigation is underway.”