in light of steven's experience ... this was posted earlier to the west philadelphia live journal group:
"at around 4 am this morning, i heard a cat "screaming" outside--you know, what cats sound like when they are fighting with one another. thinking that was what was going on, i looked out the window and i see, what i thought was, two cats under a car right on my corner. well, then i see that it's actually two dogs (i'm not positive, but i think they were pitbulls) and a cat...and the dogs are now surrounding the cat...and, oh no, this is very, very bad...then one of the dogs grabs the cat it its mouth and starts whipping it around--all the while the cat is screaming--and then drops it and then picks it back up and starts doing it again. i had opened the window as soon as i saw the dogs surrounding the cat and started yelling out the window to try to distract the dogs so the cat could get away. didn't work. these dogs must have been trained. while the one dog is whipping it around the second time (i, with my love of animals, am very emotional at this point) and i start yelling "who's dogs are these? WHO'S DOGS ARE THESE?" hoping someone would either verbally call them off so maybe i could get an idea of where the person was or if the dogs happened to originate from that block. well, the one who doesn't have the cat it its mouth suddenly stands up straight and runs away (south down 46th) as if it had been called. well, sadly, the cat had stopped screaming at this point. the dog dropped the cat, then picked up its lifeless body and dragged it down the street, in the same direction as the other one went."
