Cat saves boy from dog attack - must see - (warning graphic images). - Page 3

Why is that dog "under observation"! It just attacked a small child with no provocation, it should be PTS.
Children are more important then dogs.

Good kitty!

Okay, I´m a hillbilly... didn´t even THINK about security cameras - sorry. Not very common over here...
 

Great action by the cat;  amazingly loyal and brave.

 

Like someone else said, although I can see the point in

the mother going to try to get a look at the dog, it did

seem a bit odd to leave him lying there.  And it seems

a little odder  that he got up and ran by himself without

limping, and without blood pouring down his leg (even if

the bite was to his thigh and his shorts covered it).  Anyhow

it looks from the video as though it was the lower leg that

the dog grabbed and pulled on ... 

I hope Admin is correct and no one would stage this event.

Still something feels not quite right.

I would also like to know what provoked the attack, had the

child and the dog had any previous bad history ?

 

But I agree the dog should be PTS, 'cos he definately grabbed

the kid's leg, whether he did that much damage or not.  And who

owns it, why was it allowed to run loose ?

i don't care if it was prey/predatory.  Any dog that can't discern prey from a small human child?  f****** DUN!  no use for a POS like that.  It's different if it nips and stops or something, still bad, but not as dangerous.  This was an outright attack, I'd hate to see the results if the cat wasn't there.  This dog should be dead already. Cut the head off and send it in for testing

GOOD KITTY!!

I am glad that the boy wasnt hurt more than he was....lets all hope that the emotional wounds (if any) will heal. The bite wounds will heal with time. The kid was fortunate that the dog grabbed him in the leg and not the face.

That was one pissed off kitty... he was like "how DARE you hurt MY family"!! Who needs a protection dog with a cat like this one!

As mentioned I also feel that something is not right in that dogs head. It looked like he was hunting prey.... Especially with the bite and shake like s/he did.... Hope the dog was UTD on shots. I feel for the kid if he has to go thru a series of shots if this dog is not current.

Hope the owner of the dog pays for this! I feel they are to blame as well for letting the dog run free.

 

My prayers are with the kid and family that they heal physically as well as emotionally from this incident.... and hope that kitty got a special tasty dinner that night!

 

 

Update.

 

The story, and the video that captured it, is enough to convert even the most hard-core dog lover into a cat person.

It’s how one family cat saved a 4-year-old California boy from a vicious and unprovoked dog attack – and all captured in a one-minute surveillance clip.

“It’s honestly just a blur,” Erica Triantafilo said Thursday on TODAY, describing the attack she witnessed on her son, Jeremy. “I just remember hearing him and the next thing I know, I see my cat flying out of nowhere, onto this dog, and just remember trying to get my son and get the dog away and back in its yard, away from both of us that it was trying to attack.”

Jeremy had been on his bike, walking it up the family driveway when the next door neighbor’s dog trotted around a parked car and tore into the boy’s leg, dragging him off the bike.

That’s when Tara appeared on the scene, leaping on top of the dog, scaring it away. The kitty then went after the dog long enough to make sure it stayed away. The startling scene was captured in a one-minute clip compiled by Jeremy’s dad, Roger Triantafilo. The video went viral Wednesday, seen more than five million times on YouTube alone.

Triantafilo said he was surprised to see the rescue unfold. He knew only the basics of the story told to him by his wife and emergency responders before he turned to home surveillance video to help fill in the blanks.

“I was like, ‘Well, you know, I’m going to check the tape and see if we got anything, and see if it even caught what happened,’” he said. “And sure enough, it was pretty amazing to see just a cat take on a dog and so selflessly just put herself out there and not worry about if she was going to get bit or injured herself. 

"I think that dog did not know what hit him.”

 

The heroics displayed by Tara, a stray adopted by the family six years ago, surprised everyone.

“Every once in a while she puts our dog back into her place, but for the most part, she’s just the most mellow cat you’ve ever met,” Erica Triantafilo said. “All our boys love her and pick on her occasionally. She just loves them right back anyway.”

Jeremy, who was sleeping on his mom’s chest during the interview, received 10 stitches for two lacerations to his calf.

“He’s just bouncing back from this,” his mom said. “He tells us it feels better. And he’s just ready to get out there and run around and play with the other kids again.”

The dog who attacked the boy may be euthanized, she said, based on the conversation she had Wednesday with an animal control official.

“The animal can be rehabilitated by the family possibly but from what I understand, that’s a long and difficult procedure to get the dog back in their (the owner’s) custody,” she said. “Otherwise it will be put to sleep, unfortunately.”

Some people have commented on the mother appearing to head for the house after the bite. She did no such thing. She went after the dog, to make sure it stayed away, and got bitten by it herself!

That is one dangerous dog! 

SM, dogs that bite are ALWAYS held in quarantine for a certain period to make sure they don't develop rabies. It isn't visible in the brain until it reaches a certain stage, so euthanizing them right away is not an option. They even do this if the dog is up to date on its shots, as the vaccinations are not 100% effective!

I agree, that was a totally unprovoked attack. The dog also bit the mom, and that would eliminate the theory that the dog was acting in prey mode!

Do the family or AC actually know whose dog it is ?

Anyone heard ?   Tara's rescue act has hit the UK news

reports today too, but no further information ...

Hundmutter, GSD Admin's post above tells pretty much the whole story. The dog belonged to the next door neighbour. It is currently in quarantine at the AC shelter.