Rosie Holmes still has nightmares after her cat was ripped apart and killed in a dog attack she can only describe as a bloodbath.

AUSTRALIA -- The Echuca pensioner tried in vain to pull the two wolf hounds off Bo, her cat, in the driveway of her Stawell St unit on November 13.

‘‘I punched the guts out of them, but it made no difference because they were in a blood frenzy,’’ she said.

Ms Holmes said the dogs had jumped a makeshift fence from their home across the road, also slaughtering a neighbour’s cat which had just given birth to kittens during their rampage.

Campaspe Shire people and place general manager Paul McKenzie said local laws staff impounded the dogs the day of the attack and they would remain in the pound pending court action.

‘‘The dogs were reported to have escaped their enclosure, attacking and subsequently killing two cats,’’ Mr McKenzie said.

Ms Holmes said she had owned Bo, who was a stray, for only a few months but loved and cared for him as much as her other two cats, which were inside at the time of the attack.

Because Bo had been mistreated, he only slept in the driveway in a kennel Ms Holmes had bought for him.

It was while Bo was asleep the two dogs attacked him.

‘‘I raced outside to find two large dogs had my pet cat on the ground,’’ she said.

‘‘They gripped and tore at Bo right in front of me. I was hemmed in between my car and the wall. Suddenly one of the dogs ran with Bo in his jaws and the other one sent me flying and I cracked my head on the concrete.

‘‘By the time I recovered and went after them, Bo was dead. They dropped his mangled body in next door’s garden. A child of about two and a half saw poor Bo in her garden and the monsters on the loose with blood on them.’’

Ms Holmes hoped justice would be done, saying, ‘‘I want the dogs dead.’’

(Riverine Herald - Nov 26, 2015)