A CAT owner has spoken of her horror after her 17-year-old puss was shaken 'like a rag doll" by two dogs.

Rocky, who is blind and has a heart murmur, was set upon in his Cheyney Close garden.

Owner Karen Hambidge, 44, said the dogs first got into the rabbits pen which is surrounded with a 4ft fence.

They were chased out of the garden by Karen's son.

"Then we looked around and realised they had Rocky. He was in the mouth of one of the dogs and it was shaking it like a rag doll.

"I thought he was going to die. He was hyperventilating his eyes were popping out of his head.

"My son took the cat to the vet and they said it didn't look good. I asked for him to come back so he could die at home."

Miraculously Rocky has now made a full recovery but this wasn't the first time the family had encountered the dogs.

Mrs Hambidge, who is married to husband Stephen, 45, and has two children Daniel,19 and Abbie, 14, said: "The Saturday before it happened the dogs came to our house and I took them to our vets in Painswick Road, they were microchipped so the owners came to pick them up after we had left and we just forgot about it.

"I thought I had done a good deed by making sure they got home safe."

On Saturday we told you how mum-of-four Paula Smith, of Bathurst Road, Tredworth, was kept in police cells for five hours – because her dog bit a cat.

She has been charged with being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control in a public place and bailed to appear at Gloucester Magistrates' Court on March 29.