Family Cat Saves A Boy From An Attacking Dog

[6Foot2]

Note: The video ends showing the wounds inflicted on the boy during this attack both unstitched and stitched. Also some might find the footage of the attack upsetting.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3gfguy_Qg

[newpersn]

Been all over my facebook last night.

 

Hope the dog get shot..... (i thought i would never hear my self say this)

[skell]

Don't forget to shoot the owners while you're at it

[BassTech]

I love cats, I'd like to think mine would do the same

Who says they're cowards?!

[Disaster]

This could have been a "Cat-astrophe!"

[hardtailstar]

Thats pretty awesome.

 

Ive seen my cats gang up on over cats wanting to fight one of them but to take on a dog is a bit different!

[abillybob]

I'm quite surprised the cat acted in this way, it is very unlikely that cats actually share loyalty towards a human owner, on the Channel 4 Documentary about them cats don't show love and affection and most stuff they do towards humans is to get food or attention for their own selfish needs.

It has shocked me, maybe it appears the cat is doing it in honour of the boy or maybe it's just because the cat decided to do it and he was lucky!? I suppose we will never know.

 

Dogs on the other hand hunt in packs and are completely the opposite in the way cats think, a dog WILL fight for it's owner to death in most cases as it see's you as the Alpha Male and wants to protect you, that's just part of their instinct.

 

It seems the dog in the clip didn't have an owner with him? Maybe a stray? Maybe hungry and saw the child as an easy way to get a bit of lunch... unfortunately we don't know the full story but it's either a stray that happened to see the boy or the owners are disgusting and need burying with the dog!

[Norphy]

I heard on the radio this morning that it was a neighbour's dog.

 

Who knows what the cat's motives were? Maybe it was being territorial? Maybe it was protecting the child? Either way the result was the same

[mthomas08]

Seen it before, not the video but a cat protecting some one. Seen a young girl get protected in a similar way although it wasn't no where near as bad as this video.

[Greenbeast]

I love this, I wonder if any of our 5 cats would do this? (luckily we've got 6 dogs that weigh 250kg between them so being undefended is not really a worry of mine ;-) )

[AMLinington]

I saw this in my Facebook feed this morning and thought it was brilliant. The story I read said that the dog was 'under observation' but the unprovoked attack on a child like that should result in immediate destruction of the animal. I was well impressed with the way the cat launched itself bodily at the dog. You'd be surprised how strong cats can be. My cat once attacked a Spaniel (although she was suffering cat dementia at the time so her attack on the dog was totally out of character) and came off the better for it. I'd like to think Enzo would protect me and mine but he's a chicken. It'd be more likely to be our bolshy doe Rabbit or our buck - the pair of them have both chased Enzo out of the garden lol. It's lucky really that the kid got off so relatively 'lightly' - when the dog pulled him from his bike it looked like he was flinging a rag doll around.

[SiliconAlley_Sam]

What a lucky, lucky kid. I dread to think how bad it would have been if the awesome cat hadn't leapt to the rescue. Do we even know if the cat was his? Edited May 15, 2014 by SiliconAlley_Sam

[AMLinington]

What a lucky, lucky kid. I dread to think how bad it would have been if the awesome cat hadn't leapt to the rescue. Do we even know if the cat was his?

 

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What a lucky, lucky kid. I dread to think how bad it would have been if the awesome cat hadn't leapt to the rescue. Do we even know if the cat was his?

 

Yes. The cat belongs to the family. I watched a news interview where the cat was sitting with the family. It's quite a large cat.

[hardtailstar]

I'm quite surprised the cat acted in this way, it is very unlikely that cats actually share loyalty towards a human owner, on the Channel 4 Documentary about them cats don't show love and affection and most stuff they do towards humans is to get food or attention for their own selfish needs.

 

Not sure what they were on about as my cat shows me love and affection plus it isn't after food all the time.

 

I wont bore you with the details but having had cats in my house since I can remember, I dont agree with Channel 4.

[SiliconAlley_Sam]

Yes. The cat belongs to the family. I watched a news interview where the cat was sitting with the family. It's quite a large cat.

 

What an awesome family pet. Bet the parents are thinking he or she is the best investment they ever made!

[creese]

Not sure what they were on about as my cat shows me love and affection plus it isn't after food all the time.

 

I wont bore you with the details but having had cats in my house since I can remember, I dont agree with Channel 4.

 

Not really a cat fan, I'm semi moved in with my partner. One of the cats has really taken to me, the other not so much. It will sit on me and look 'lovingly' into my eyes... my partners words (I think she is jealous ;-) ). If I am away for a few days, both cats 'sulk' and take a couple of hours before they come back around to me.

 

The other week I heard cat claws scrambling across the laminate. I looked around and saw a huge German Shepherd standing in the lounge. One cat was nowhere to be seen for several hours. we eventually found the hiding place, in a corner where two kitchen cabinets meet. The dog is next doors, they had just brought it home, it is an ex-firearms police dog. I was on my own, no back up from either cat.

[LeMarchand]

Our last (now sadly departed) cat once scared the dog next door into wetting himself...

[SiliconAlley_Sam]

Now can't picture a cat without seeing it in some sort of superhero getup.

[hardtailstar]

Now can't picture a cat without seeing it in some sort of superhero getup.

 

it'll be around soon!

[JJonas]

It was on the news this morning the cat followed the couple home from the park when they were dating and they adopted her.

[AMLinington]

I'm quite surprised the cat acted in this way, it is very unlikely that cats actually share loyalty towards a human owner, on the Channel 4 Documentary about them cats don't show love and affection and most stuff they do towards humans is to get food or attention for their own selfish needs.

It has shocked me, maybe it appears the cat is doing it in honour of the boy or maybe it's just because the cat decided to do it and he was lucky!? I suppose we will never know.

 

Dogs on the other hand hunt in packs and are completely the opposite in the way cats think, a dog WILL fight for it's owner to death in most cases as it see's you as the Alpha Male and wants to protect you, that's just part of their instinct.

 

It seems the dog in the clip didn't have an owner with him? Maybe a stray? Maybe hungry and saw the child as an easy way to get a bit of lunch... unfortunately we don't know the full story but it's either a stray that happened to see the boy or the owners are disgusting and need burying with the dog!

 

I don't agree I'm afraid.

 

Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong

 

Whether cats show 'Love' and 'Affection' towards humans can be debated, however we've all seen the videos of mother cats snuggling their babies and we've read stories of unrelated cats (and sometimes even males) adopting orphaned kittens. So 'Love' and 'affection' might be contentious but there is a solid argument towards 'compassion'. When Truffie died our other cat was really distressed. She'd run about the house wailing and looking in all the places Truffie used to sleep. It was heartbreaking. Truffie used to get distressed when Tigga was nowhere to be found too. So clearly they have some companionship-type relationship that means something to the animal.

 

My young male cat, Enzo, will greet me when I get home from work and meow at me incessantly until I sit down on the sofa whereupon he'll jump up and roll about on my lap until I've petted him to his satisfaction. I'm under no illusions that this is unlikely to be 'love' in the way we understand it but clearly my companionship and attention means enough to him that he goes out of his way to solicit it. He doesn't have to. He has plenty of food freely available and he has free access to the outdoors via a cat flap. He doesn't have to 'pay for' or 'solicit' his food by showing me 'affection'. This isn't a LEARNED behaviour or cause-and-effect scenario - I don't provide his food as a result of his 'loves'. His biscuits are always available and when they're running low he'll mew at me. He is an autonomous individual who makes active choices and one of his choices is to get up on my lap and solicit 'affection'. He has plenty of beds and 'activity towers' and soft blankets in various places in the house yet he CHOOSES to sleep on the bed with me or in our bedroom on his 'upstairs' activity tower (he has two - one downstairs and one up). This is a choice he makes for himself.

 

Perhaps the cat was behaving territorially but it is a well established fact that cats, as solitary predators, prefer 'posturing' and 'vocal' fights over physical altercations. For this cat to charge at the dog, turn sideways and knock the dog away is unusual behaviour for a cat. Most cats would puff up and hiss, spit and yowl. They wouldn't launch themselves at the dog.

 

As a longtime cat owner my theory is that this cat has a bond with her human family (the cat is female btw). To the cat, the humans she lives with are her 'companions' and when a dog threatened her companions and entered her territory she defended both the territory and the companion with no regard to her own welfare. This was a choice she made. WHY she made that choice is impossible to determine. All we can do is speculate on why she reacted in a non-typical way.

 

Personally I like to think that she did it out of compassion.

[spookyspoof]

I'm not a cat person either - but I'm in awe of this cat.... i love the way it pounces on the dog and chases it away.

I still can't understand the complete un-prevoked attack from the dog.... it was quite sly in the way it approached the child. It doesn't appear to be wearing a collar either.

Glad the child is okay thanks to the puddy cat...

[pcstru]

Anyone who knows cats can see that the animal is just keeping it's it's prey fresh. Meanwhile the dog is talking to it's lawyers about issuing a subpoena for the three hours of footage that show the boy taunting the dog, throwing rocks at it. Although even the dog is wrong about that, it was actually the cat dressed up as the boy.

 

Cat's - you really can't trust them.

Edited May 15, 2014 by pcstru

[creese]

Cat's - you really can't trust them.

 

Cat's what? ;-)

 

True though. Look at Garfield.

[Bompalompalomp]

I don't think anybody who owns a cat could believe that cats don't have a sense of loyalty.

 

I'm a blossoming crazy cat lady in the making, though... Three cats with all very different personalities.

 

One of them fell out of a second storey window once and ran off out of shock, and his mum ran out the back door and brought him back within ten minutes. I had a nasty infection once and passed out climbing stairs because of it and fell down the whole set. When I woke up I was bleeding from the impact slightly and my cats woke my mum up crying and jumped on her bed!

 

Oh god I sound crazy. I'm not crazy.