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Hero Cat -- Attack Dog Euthanized [Don't blame me, I didn't write the headline.]
TMZ ^ | 5/25/2014

Posted on 05/25/2014 11:51:21 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Every dog has it's day ... and in the case of the Lab/Chow mix that viciously attacked a little boy only to be scared off by hero cat -- his last day was Saturday.

Sources at the Bakersfield animal shelter tell TMZ ... Scrappy was euthanized at the end of a 10-day hold following the attack. We're told the dog was aggressive during his stay at the shelter, even trying to bite a couple of employees.

Scrappy was so ornery ... we're told he would try to attack staff even when they tried to give him food and water.

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bakersfield; canine; cats; deaddog; dogs; felines; kittyping; mansbestfriend
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To: libstripper
No that dog was in an aggressive posture. (Slow walk, direct stare, tail up and stiff) It was clearly defending territory. I'll bet it's owner routinely let it out to run loose.
61 posted on 05/25/2014 1:59:13 PM PDT by Varda
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To: thesearethetimes...

The dog WAS coming back. Mom ran to intercept, and got bit in the process.


62 posted on 05/25/2014 2:00:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

63 posted on 05/25/2014 2:01:26 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: making the world safe for Sharia.)
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To: fwdude; GeronL

For better or worse, bad taste isn’t a criminal offense.


64 posted on 05/25/2014 2:01:30 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: thesearethetimes...
Cameras are surveilance cams. They run all the time.

If you watch one of the longer clips of this incident on Youtube, mom comes running up to the kid right after the cat chases the dog off.

65 posted on 05/25/2014 2:03:48 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: Slings and Arrows; rmh47

Wow! Thank you for the “rest of the story” :o I didn’t catch that on the clip.

Both that little guy and his mom, were very lucky the kitteh interceded, giving mom time to get out there : /


66 posted on 05/25/2014 2:22:15 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr. Eric Cunningha.m)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Sadly had to be done.

I remember our neighbor owned a chow where we lived before the house we purchased.

I was washing our truck out front and a neighbor had one. Usually they kept it on the leash. That day the owner was out front and the dog was off the leash. His dog came around the side of the truck just in he same way as the one in the video.

I grabbed Hershee and told the guy to get his dog put it on a leash. I promised I would never let Hershee out front without one if he made the same promise. I also told him that if the dog is lose out front I would kill it.

I had a friend when I was young who was mauled by a chow. Chows were bred to be fighting dogs by the Japanese. They are some of the top fighting dogs you can find. A vicious bread that has no soul. Any dog that can kill a pit bull in a dog fight is not something I want around children.

The problem is a pit dog looks mean, but a chow looks harmless to kids. The cuteness gives a false sense of security. in my book that makes them worse than a pit bull.

Not only that, pit bulls have to be trained to be deadly, chows are the only dog I know of that does not have to be trained, other than maybe a rottweiler. I would never own either. I would get a pit bull before ever getting a chow, or rottweiler.


67 posted on 05/25/2014 3:58:56 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: fidelis
Um, could it had been just the umbrella he was holding rather that the fact he was Latino?

On mizzly days everyone could be holding an umbrella. Her fear was definitely a Latino "look." I couldn't understand her fears but she definitely FIERCELY feared a Latino (looking?) male holding a closed-up umbrella.
The Latino (looking?) male hurt her badly. That was why she feared him so. Whenever she saw a Latino male holding an umbrella she would run away, HEADING FOR THE HILLS and hide.

This is California so there are many Latino males. She didn't fear ALL of them, just ones holding these kind of umbrellas.

She was a DOG and she couldn't reason out the particulars, just that a male (looking?) Latino she remembered beat her.

68 posted on 05/25/2014 4:26:26 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Tupelo; El Laton Caliente; libstripper; Rodamala; Mercat; lee martell; ecomcon
Check my comment on #67.

Chows have been used as fighting dogs, and have been known to not only hold their own against pit bulls, to to kill them in illegal Michael Vick type dog fights.

I don't think people realize how strong an adult chow can be. Do not be fooled by all that fur.

Anything that can kill a pit bull in a fight, is not something I want around children. At least the pit bull looks mean, a chow looks cute, and that is the biggest danger with chows.
69 posted on 05/25/2014 4:39:49 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: libstripper

We had a beagle next door where I grew up. Somehow he got in our house and we heard him howling from another room. Our cat, Pete, had him cornered behind the front door and was beating the tar out of him.


70 posted on 05/25/2014 6:04:42 PM PDT by Wicket (1 Peter 3:15 , Romans 5:5-8)
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To: DogByte6RER

ahahaha LOVE IT!!


71 posted on 05/25/2014 6:22:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Slings and Arrows
“I may be mistaken, but it looked to me like the dog was stalking the child from the get-go. The fact that dog apparently tried to hamstring the child leads me to believe that he saw the kid as lunch.”

I think you are right.

My fellow dog rescuers were divided on whether the dog should have been euthanized. Since the owners readily gave him up to a very high kill shelter, there was no chance for the dog.

72 posted on 05/25/2014 9:22:04 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Tupelo

I think you just offended my Chow.

Then again, she is as Dumb as a Box of Barbara Boxers unless Food is part of the equation. The thought of getting some Food or a Treat smartens her right up.


73 posted on 05/25/2014 10:08:52 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Cancer were Contagious, they would call it Liberalism...)
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To: chrisinoc

Nope, no chance at all. Pity.


74 posted on 05/25/2014 10:58:03 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: El Laton Caliente

>>> I may get flamed for this, but I am more cautious around Chows than Pit Bulls. In my personal experience, there are far more of them highly aggressive than any other breed. They are territorial and tend to be one person or one family dogs.

I gotta agree with that. The one-person/family bit, very much!

My chow caution is more specifically tuned towards the females, based on several random (aggressively antisocial) encounters. Maybe my encounters with a single friendly, roving male is the exception to the rule - in any case, it’s the one breed of which I remain wary.


75 posted on 05/25/2014 11:52:08 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: El Laton Caliente

I won’t flame you. Virtually every Chow or half-Chow I’ve ever met has been at least a little bit crazy. They are the most one-owner dogs I’ve ever seen and they seem to really need good owners or else they go off the rails. Pits/Staffies I’m fine with, Chows I keep an eye on when I see one. We briefly owned a Chow/German Shepherd mix when I was a kid. “Briefly” because when we were on vacation six months after we got him, he got out of his run and tried to chase a car. He caught it, the hard way.

(Ironically, his name was “Lucky.”)

}:-)4


76 posted on 05/26/2014 5:59:32 AM PDT by Moose4 (Sufficiently feisty.)
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To: Wicket

Pete’s competing for the Old Muzzie award. Poor Beagle.


77 posted on 05/26/2014 7:23:07 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Slings and Arrows

It is sad. But I must say that if I had a dog like that, that attacked...unprovoked..I would never trust that dog again. Under any circumstance.


78 posted on 05/26/2014 6:41:23 PM PDT by berdie
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To: berdie

I don’t blame you.


79 posted on 05/26/2014 6:42:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I agree...very necessary.


80 posted on 05/27/2014 10:56:17 AM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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