A shocked and frustrated Warwick resident has called for two dogs she believed attacked and killed her beloved pet cat, Harley, to be euthanised.

Jennifer McCarron found Harley dead in the road near her home after he had been missing for several days.

She had been worried about her pet after her security cameras filmed a German Shepherd-type dog and a tan-coloured pitbull in her yard one night.

When she found cat hair and blood on the steps of her Coral Hill Lane home, she went looking for Harley, but could not find him.

She discovered her cat’s mutilated body days later.

Ms McCarron recalled the series of events that began on January 18.

“Our ring camera caught them at 3.06am, 3.32am and 4.30am,” she said. “It caught the two dogs in our yard. It was clear it was a Shepherd and a tan-coloured pitbull.”

Soon afterwards, she realised, something was wrong.

“We saw cat hair and blood on some of our stepping stones. We went looking. I called the dog warden and got them involved.”

She made a gruesome discovery a few days later.

“I was coming down Cobbs Hill. I looked up and I saw a white lump in their roadway. I went and drove up there, and there was the cat.

“It was just completely mauled to pieces and the two dogs were out,” said Ms McCarron.

“I took the cat to the vet and they ascertained that she had been dead about two days. So six days, she was probably tormented by these dogs and it just looked as if her body was discarded, just thrown over the wall.”

“What those two dogs did with our cat, they need to be euthanised. The fines are not enough,” she added.

Ms McCarron spoke to police about the incident and they referred her to the dog warden.

Since then, she has been sending e-mails and making phone calls to the dog warden, police, MPs from both parties, a parish constable, a Department of Environment and Natural Resources official and the chief veterinary officer.

It is a criminal offence under section 22 of the Dogs Act 2008 for a person to keep a dog that causes death or injury to a person or animal.

In an e-mail, the DENR said that the incident was being investigated.

“We are still reeling from this heartbreaking ordeal and are looking to seek justice for our precious Harley,” said Ms McCarron.

Her story is just the latest in a series of incidents involving dog attacks in Bermuda.

In May, unlicensed pitbulls killed four chickens and left a boy traumatised; on New Year’s Day, two pitbulls ran amok in Southampton; and in late January, a man and his dog were attacked by another dog while walking in a park in Warwick.

“It’s challenging,” said Andrew Madeiros, who has owned Ettrick Animal Hospital in Warwick for over two decades.

“The system is not well-suited for any animal-related cases, whether its cruelty, bites, illegal breeding. The system is complicated. The main complication is the delays getting to trials and trial dates,” said Mr Madeiros.

“The reason it's a problem is when you are dealing with animals if a charge is laid, the animal becomes evidence. Then it's under the control of the government dog wardens who have to hold the animal until the court case.”

“We need a system that gives quicker access to the court. You need to be able to charge, get that case heard and a decision made in a shorter period of time,” said Mr Madeiros.

“It’s very frustrating,” he added.