Sometime before 1992, then-police chief Willie Weatherford distributed copies of the tape—which he named "Pinky the Cat"—to the media and his friends.

[1] Video clips from the full version of Pinky the Cat aired throughout the 1990s on television in the United States.

In that program, a voice-over cautions that "sometimes the animals we should fear the most are those we expect the least" and then shows a "house cat named Pinky going berserk and sinking his teeth deep into a man's thigh.

Pinky becomes agitated and leaps out of the hands of Pritchard and onto the ground, running and jumping around in all directions as he tries to break free from the leash.

"Son of a bitch", Pritchard whispers, followed by a polite "excuse my language", as he doubles over in pain clutching his leg.

The segment began as Anderson Cooper ran a related video of a cat that attacked WJW's Kathleen Cochrane during a live report.

"[11] In a 2007 article in Film Comment, American cartoonist Matt Groening revealed that one of his favorite YouTube videos is "the immortal Pinky the Cat.