Father arrested for abusing family cat after DAUGHTER captures stomach-churning images of 'Joey' being held upside down and slapped like a ragdoll

James Fiengo's daughter recorded video footage of him abusing the family's cat Joey

Graphic footage shows him squeezing the animal's head and swinging it around

Fiengo has been arrested on two counts of animal cruelty

Joey has cartilage damage to his right ear and chronic trauma to his tail



An animal abuser has been shopped to the police by his own family after they captured video of him abusing the family cat.



James Fiengo, 43, of Port St. Lucie, Florida was arrested on Tuesday for abusing the family cat Joey and is also accused of Daisy, a female German shepherd dog.



Port St. Lucie Animal Control learned of the abuse from Fiengo's wife, who showed animal control the video taken by their 12-year-old daughter.



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Animal abuser James Fiengo has been arrested after his family gave authorities video evidence of him repeatedly abusing the family's cat Joey including smacking him like he was a rag doll



The abuser: Fiengo has been arrested on two counts of felony animal cruelty

The stomach-churning video footage shows Fiengo treating the cat like a rag doll, while he makes faces to the camera as if he is enjoying what he is doing.



In the footage Fiengo squeezes Joey’s head while the cat can be heard crying out in pain. He also holds the clearly distressed animal upside down and bats its head as if it was a ball.

Not shown on the video are other claims of abuse made by Fiengo's wife.



She claims Fiengo regularly picked Joey up by the tail and swung him back and forth, squeezed the cat's tail in an attempt to 'crack it like a stick,' threw the cat across the house and punched him in the stomach.

A vet has examined Joey and found cartilage damage to his right ear, while an x-ray of his tail found it showed chronic trauma

Fiengo's wife says the cat 'doesn't chew right' and has a deformed ear now, reports CBS News .



She also told police Fiengo abuses the dog Daisy by sitting on her and biting her muzzle until she yelped.



She said the family has had two cats prior to Joey that she had to get rid of 'for their own protection' because Fiengo 'cracked' the tail on the first one and threw the second one against a wall, knocking it unconscious.

Video footage shows Fiengo, right, squeezing Joey's head while the cat can be heard crying out in pain

Fiengo's wife said she has obtained a restraining order against her husband for threats he has made to his daughter for recording the videos.



A veterinarian examined the cat and found cartilage damage to the cat's right ear. The vet also x-rayed the cat's tail and found it showed chronic trauma.

