Posted on 05/14/2014 3:33:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
A little boy was out enjoying his bicycle in his family’s driveway on Tuesday when out of no where he was attacked by a loose dog.
Luckily, a hero cat was on hand to save the day — yes, a cat.
The incident occurred just before 5 p.m., in Bakersfield, California, according to KERO-TV.
Different angles from the home’s surveillance camera show the boy and then the dog prowling around the corner. When the canine spotted the boy on the other side of an SUV, he trotted over and then lunged, violently pulling the boy from his toddler bike.
Then, the family’s cat, Tara, charged and jumped on the dog, frightening him away from the child and chasing him off the property.
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Bravo! Nice work!
Our first family cat (she showed up pregnant, of course, that’s where the rest of the family cats came from) used to get her jollies ambushing wandering dogs (this was out in the boonies), and she wasn’t a big cat. One time she was napping in the grass in the shade of an ash tree near the house, woke up and spotted a freakin’ great dane that our kinda useless neighbors used to have, and she ran up into the tree (this all happened as my dad watched, he was probably working on a car at the time). The dog came bounding up the driveway, and just as he got under the nearest branch, this angry mass of black and white sprang down out of the leaves, perfect aim, landed on the dog’s back, all claws, he yelped, did a sort of wheelie, turned and ran for home (about a quarter mile through the brush). The cat got knocked off in the hail of sapling branches and whatnot, but she didn’t even look back to check to see if the dog had come back for more, she just came walking back across the road, up the lawn, and went back to her nap. What a cat she was.
Thanks lowbridge.
I love that your cat didn't even look back when it came back to finish its nap! {^)
And then the woman ran off and left the child there. (??)
I am sorry to say that I doubt that my wimpy 42-lb Ozzy-Lab mix would have acted as bravely.
“Sorry to say it, cause I’m a dog guy, but that pooch needs to be put down.”
I’m a dog woman, but you’re right, that dog can never be trusted, he needs to go. He would have killed that kid and the kid had bad wounds into the muscles. I think I would have killed the dog myself after I got the kid help.
When my son was about 5, I saw him running toward the house and a dog was chasing him and going to catch him. Without thinking, I started running toward the dog and that dog was going to be dead when I got there. The dog saw me, turned, and ran. I surely would have killed him with my bare hands and he knew it. I weighed about 110 pounds but I would have killed him somehow.
I’ve always wondered what the neighbors thought... “did you see the dog? WTH happened to the dog?”
That's one tough kitty...
Incredible cat! Lunge counterattack!
Also same name as my dog who died last week!
That dog is no good. Unbelievable how that little punk just ambles up and starts pulling apart the child.
I’d say it has a PBT type body, possibly a mix, but I don’t see a PBT giving up for a cat. Well, as I said, possibly a mix and the other side is wussy.
I love these kinds of videos for all the “lovers” telling us dog = God backwards, forever faithful, etc. Reality bites, doesn’t it? Not all dogs are great, and some are horrible.
I have been flamed many times on FR when I say I am sickened when I see a baby cuddling with a dog. I dog is an animal plain and simple. As is a cat. Thank God this cat was around and defended her ‘kitten.’
I am a dog person. I know dog behavior very well. This dog is a menace and sadly, should be put down. It pains me to say it. If it were my dog and my dog attacked me I would be forgiving of the dog and embrace a strict regimen of training and discipline. But when a dog is stalking and hunting a child it is dangerous and potentially deadly. There is no way to safely introduce a dog like this back in to a neighborhood setting.
I once had a cat that use to walk with me out by the river at my new house (North Idaho). Great cat. I got him (rescue cat and dog) to keep my dog company. Dog was about 25 lbs cat was about 19lbs. Both the dog and cat played endlessly and would go hiking / fishing with me along the river. The cat fought off foxes cayotes and other dogs. BUT, sadly, his luck ran out when he got ran over by a school bus when they put a new road in the neighborhood.
I just noticed something in the video... The dog had no collar.
The owners have ZERO knowledge of dogs, don’t care enough to get it registered, are idiots for leaving the dog unattended to roam free, never socialized the dog, and are general scumbags. This poor dog will pay for their idiocy when it is euthanized.
The cat is a bad ass hero.
I don’t know all the details to nit-pick, but as you stated before this dog is clearly an untrustworthy menace, acting like that. No “poor dog” from me - these people were only idiots for having such a dog, not for any details such as no collar (many of us do that, BTW, for various reasons including irritating the neck and hair). No collar ON doesn’t mean there was no registration. And the dog did have a fence, but must’ve gotten out.
Even bad dogs know not to tangle with a mama bear if they can help it.
And that is why cats have da ebils.
A dog is a result of it’s training and discipline. I say poor dog because the dog reverted to dog behavior that any good dog owner and trainer could have eliminated. The killer instinct of a wolf is in the tiniest tea-cup yorkie and the friendliest lab. The dog is going to pay with it’s life for the negligence of the owner. Hence my “poor dog” meme.
Don’t buy that at all. Not everything is the fault of people, something PETA likes to promulgate. Lots of innate problems in animals especially individuals. Hence why I do not just pick any puppy or kitten, but those that seem stable, etc. it is just like people. Some seem to be bad by nature, and some are good. Nothing you can do to change their natures. Many dogs are average and can be affected by their environment, gbut some will never attack no matter what, and others can never be trusted to be nice.
“Even bad dogs know not to tangle with a mama bear if they can help it.”
All the adrenalin I had must have poured into my blood and brain and that dog was going to be dead. I was an award winning champion runner in college (and jumping hurdles too)and that dog likely realized I would be on him fast because I was running straight at him as fast as I could, which was really fast.
In later years, I had trouble with my right knee and an MRI was done on that knee. The technician was going to put that leg into an MRI machine and she stopped to adjust something and said, “You must have been a runner.” I asked her how she knew that. She said my leg from my knee down was longer than most people and she had to adjust the machine for that. To me, my legs look like everyone else’s (except they are more slender than most people) and I can’t tell that part of my leg is longer. I am 5’5” so I’m not a tall woman with long legs. It was just strange she said that.
“The killer instinct of a wolf is in the tiniest tea-cup yorkie...”
My Yorkie was weighed last week at the vet and she weighs 4.3 pounds. She loves everyone. I have a glass door at the front of my townhouse and glass doors on the back leading into my small garden. She watches both glass doors for any sound or movement and barks to warn me something is coming or there - that is a regular bark.
However, if it is at night, she hears something but can’t see it, she has a different bark that sounds like she is ready to attack. I’m always surprised when I hear that. I tell her, “It’s okay” and she stops that bark. As you say,
she is a dog and will defend “her” property.
I saw this on TV, it was just amazing to me as I didn’t know cats would try to protect someone!
I saw this on TV, it was just amazing to me as I didn’t know cats would try to protect someone!
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