That dog would find itself dead pretty quick in my neighborhood. I mean wtf is up with that? Lotsa little kids & 2nd Amendment types if ya know what I mean.
2.
Chyron HR
The ability to ignore virtually all history when advocating for The Next Cat Intervention is as impressive as it is horrifying.
3.
geg6
Now that’s the spirit of Tunch in action!
4.
Belafon
@Chyron HR: We’ve all seen the movies where the cats become self aware and turn on their creators.
5.
BGinCHI
Holy shit. That is one fierce cat. And I agree with kindness: if that dog did that to my kid it would be dead as dishwater. And then I would punch it’s owner right in his stupid face.
And I’m a pacifist.
6.
Danny
That cat deserves to be moved up a couple notches in the food chain. The dog is telling the neighborhood dogs that he was jumped by a pack of saber tooth tigers.
7.
The Moar You Know
Been watching this and it took me straight back to 1969, when I was three years old. One of my first memories. This was like a damn videotape of what happened to me…almost. I did not get bit.
Lady across the street had a mean dog, some kind of German Shepherd. Well, I was outside in the front yard and it got out. Saw me and charged.
Our cat, who hated everyone who wasn’t my mother (including me) was not having some goddamned dog on our property, charged out while I stood there frozen in terror, and went all Alien facehugger on the dog. Ripped the bejesus out of it. Dog fled and cat walked casually back in the house, totally ignoring my screaming, sobbing self.
Neighbor lady comes over hysterical and starts screaming at my mom about how bad her dog was hurt. My mother, being a sensible woman, told her to go fuck herself with a chainsaw.
Dog ended up having to be put down. Cathy-cat lived for quite a few more years. I’d have thanked her, but she’d probably have done the same thing to me that she did to the dog. Nonetheless, thanks, Cathy-cat.
8.
Amir Khalid
TMZ reports animal control took the dog into custody, and has decided to put it down.
9.
Betty Cracker
@The Moar You Know: Great story! We had a cat that did the alien face-hugger thing to my little brother. The brat had it coming, though, so no one thought any less of the cat.
10.
the Conster
Do.Not.Mess.With.Cats.
signed, The Dog
11.
Betty Cracker
A mean neighborhood dog chased my stepmother once when she was riding a bike, nipping at her heels all the way home. My big redneck, gun-loving dad paid the neighbor a visit shortly thereafter. He said, “The next time that dog chases my wife, I’m gonna shoot it. And if it bites her, I’m gonna shoot YOU.” Never saw that dog loose again.
12.
Trollhattan
Dang, kitteh awesome.
Does everybody have surveillance video now? There are TWO camera feeds in that story.
The next chapter, given that this is Bakersfield, will involve the dog owner stalking and shooting the cat owner, and not being charged with any crime. This is the part of California that the rest of California would happily give to Texas, and pay the cost of moving it.
” That dog would find itself dead pretty quick in my neighborhood. I mean wtf is up with that? Lotsa little kids & 2nd Amendment types if ya know what I mean. ”
It’s a puzzle, since it happened in Bakersfield. Plenty of 2nd Amendment types there too, with their guns.
@burnspbesq: give to Oklahoma. Most of them would riot if they got shipped to the vile Texas, which is full of Texans.
20.
Nicole
@Amir Khalid: Good. I love dogs, but that was one aggressive animal.
21.
Amir Khalid
@Trollhattan:
Remember the Cat Bin Lady of Coventry, England? The woman who was caught dumping a neighbourhood cat into a trash bin? She was caught on video by a security camera the cat’s humans had installed.
22.
raven
@The Moar You Know: When I was in grad school right before the Atlanta Olympics I rode my bike to school. I was on my way when a dog down the street ran around my bike and bit my leg. I called animal control and they were useless. I went down to the house where he lived (full of frat boys) and banged on the door. This kid came to the door and I went apeshit on his ass. Got all up in his shit. He looked at me and burst into tears “That is my roomates dog and my best friend just got killed in the AirTran crash in the Everglades!” I felt like shit.
23.
Trollhattan
@Belafon:
The internets is yours, for the day. Use it wisely and return it when finished.
No way our pacifist cats would step up like that. Our RIP cat, though, would saunter to the sidewalk whenever a leashed dog walked by, daring it to try something. None ever did, and she was never, to our knowledge, in a for-real fight. Image is everything. Well, a lot, anyway.
We came home one night to see our two cats, and a third cat, lolling in the front yard. Third cat scampered away when we got out of the car. Third cat was a gray fox. We looked askance at the cats, who (sort of) said, “What? What did we do?”
25.
kindness
First thing I did when I moved to where I live now was introduce my 2 dogs to all the neighbors and their kids. My big guy (110 lb shepard/rott mutt) loves everybody and they all love him. It’s so cute to see the kids run up to him squealing when he’s out in the front yard. The lil girl (40 lb lab mix) has an overdeveloped fear of kids and you can’t get her near any of them. I was worried as a lot of people are afraid of big dogs cause….big dog.
26.
Tokyokie
The cats I have now would have to wake up before they could come to the rescue, and it would help if they weren’t scared of bluejays. However, that dog’s lucky he didn’t meet up with the late, great and much beloved Cat 9 From Outer Space, the only cat I’ve had who’d sleep every night curled around my head; Cat 9 disemboweled one of the neighbor’s dogs that he let run loose at night. (That dog and its pack mates had killed several neighborhood cats, including a couple of mine, so I figured it had it coming.)
I was doing some remodeling work in a room off the garage, and both the garage door and the door from the garage were open. A black lab wandered in, and my now late large fluffy gray kitty went absolutely nuts with the sideways bad-ass dance and the low rumbling growls. Mr. black lab decided he wasn’t that interested in being inside this new house with the crazy cat and hustled right back out the door, with this cat hot on his tail. The lab never looked back, and the cat showed no sign of backing off, so I guess it worked out the best for everyone.
That cat deserves to be moved up a couple notches in the food chain.
I thought cats were already at the top of the food chain.
31.
jl
@Hal: Damn. Not that I approve of that cat’s approach to conflict resolution. But why was the woman kicking snow all over the cat? Weird, and definitely provocative. At least there was snow, so it wasn’t Bakersfield. I might be afraid to go there if had to watch out for all the cats, in addition to the Bakersfeldians.
Fuck it, it’s probably all set up by a Home Owner’s Association.
33.
danielx
CATS RULE AND DOGS DROOL!
Also, that dog should be under ground, not under observation.
34.
Tim C.
@danielx: It’s going to be euthanized, they just observe to determine if it was rabid.
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J R in WV
We had a rescue dog named Muffin, who had one bad leg. She was game though, ran the ridges, just picked up the right hind leg and tucked it in and did it on three. A neighbor dog, Bernice the Norwegian Elk Hound would come down to visit, she lived with friends who came down often.
One day the two dogs were wrestling in the front yard, and Bernice must of strained Muffin’s bad leg, so she yipped to stop the action. Ralph, a huge white cat with red/orange spots was on the front porch, and felt protective of everyone. He jumped off the porch and landed on Bernice’s back, all claws in action. Bernice screamed and ran out from under Ralph, who stood on his hind legs and walked towards the very big dog, screaming his most aggressive squall.
Bernice ran around him up towards home, and NEVER came back to visit Muffin ever again.
Ralph adopted us years before when a repair tech we knew came to work on an appliance. When he opened the front door, the cat ran in like it was his house. We feared to attempt to evict him, plus he was very affectionate. The other cats left him alone, as he was way more than twice their size.
He was a great companion for nearly 20 years. They broke the mold after they made that cat. I suspect he was from another universe where cats were in charge!
You also notice the cat dart under the car after getting the dog into full run — no point in taking a chance that the dog might turn around and get pissed off that he got chased off by a mere cat.
When I was a young girl, our next door neighbors had a giant tomcat that makes Steve look like a pigmy. That cat ruled the street. If a new dog wandered into his territory, the sport was to watch it bow up to Rex and end up running away howling while he chased it down the street. That cat would jump fences to go after an aggressive dog.
For some reason, he attached himself to every child on the street. He would just love on us, pushing us over half the time. My dad, who hates cats, was convinced Rex was really a dog. And if a dog came around the kids, man, there would be blood on the concrete.
Long live Rex, feline protector of Huntington Valley Drive.
43.
Barbara
I had a dog who used to intervene on behalf of cats. She used to sit on our front stoop and keep peace, really for anyone, but most of the time it was to rebuke the other dog in the house for chasing the cats who also lived there. She was a Samoyed that we got from the pound (no kidding) and she was a great dog. Her only flaw was that whenever she wanted to go home she would go to the first car with an open window and jump in.
The defense I’ll make of the dog’s owner is that apparently he did his best to keep the dog under control — it got out while the owner was pulling out of his garage and it was the owner who called 911.
51.
celticdragonchick
My folks African kittehs in Zimbabwe (half domestic and half local African wild cat breed) used to terrorize dogs that came around. My mom heard a dog yelp and went outside. Mama Cat (the pride leader, since the cats socialized in a pride unit like lions) was on top of the intruding dog, digging in with her hand claws and raking the dog’s back and head with her front claws while the poor dog howled and ran, trying to figure out what the hell had just attacked it from above.
I played a lot with Mama Cat and her daughters back here in the states…but I had to wear leather garden gloves. They loved to play, but they never velveted their paws when they played and I still have scars twenty years later.
Ha! Our cats frequently consort with baby racoons while the raccoon parents eat the cats’ food.
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Patricia Kayden
@Mnemosyne: Learned this year that raccoons eat cats too. Was surprised since they appear to be around the same size.
57.
inventor
@LanceThruster:
I like that too. It’s like: “yeah, keep runnin’!”
58.
Pogonip
John, this is why you shouldn’t over feed your cat. That dog would never have fled with Tunch or Steve waddling after it, but lean, mean Tara put the fear of God into that beast.
I hope Tara got a can of tuna out of the deal. She earned it. And I’m glad the kid is going to be okay.
59.
Pogonip
@Patricia Kayden: Raccoons fight very well. Even good-sized dogs often back away. Just as well since raccoons often have rabies.
60.
MattR
@Pogonip: There would have been no need for Tunch to chase after the dog since the initial shot would’ve knocked it across the street.
61.
Pogonip
@MattR: Sorry, I didn’t get that one. What initial shot?
There would have been no need for Tunch to chase after the dog since the initial shot would’ve knocked it across the street.
More like “into another dimension”.
63.
CatHairEverywhere
@burnspbesq: said “The next chapter, given that this is Bakersfield, will involve the dog owner stalking and shooting the cat owner, and not being charged with any crime. This is the part of California that the rest of California would happily give to Texas, and pay the cost of moving it”
This is my city and sad to say, you are correct, for the most part. Tons of Texans and Oklahomans here already, so not sure they would notice the move. People here are generally very friendly and kind, however, (with some notable exceptions) so we do have that going for us. The local news reported that the mom lifted the bike off the kid, told him to run into the house, then ran to the neighbor’s house at which point the dog attacked her left leg, and the badass cat ran out again and chased the dog off. No surveillance video of that part, though. The dog was extremely aggressive to the animal control officers as well, which was part of the decision to euthanize. This is a part of town where people think it’s a good idea to raise their dogs to be vicious, then fail to contain them in a yard. Awesome.The badass kitty is a very pretty tabby named Tara, by the way.
64.
MikeBoyScout
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Yay, Team Cat! However, if this happened to me, my cat, Sophie, would just sit there watching, wondering why I’m playing with the dog when I should be putting food in her bowl. lol
66.
Stacy
We would catsit our neighbors cat when I was a kid. Arthur was a 19 year old black cat with white paws and a white face. He would saunter across the street at dinner time to let us know when he wanted to be fed. One time a German Shepard was walking down the street when Arthur was over. The cat promptly jumped on its back and rode it around like a cowboy.
67.
opiejeanne
@ruemara: A friend’s cat disemboweled a coyote. It was a young coyote and a pretty big cat, and we figure the cat just got lucky.
68.
Betty Cracker
@Patricia Kayden: Really? Damn, I didn’t know that. My grandfather had a pet raccoon years ago. Very tame. I guess that raccoon gave me unrealistic expectations of raccoon civility.
69.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Hal: I was just wondering why Rosie wasn’t being a little more supportive there.
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Gordon, the Big Express Engine
My cat growing up was a giant white cat named Casper. He was over 18 lbs. He liked to sit on the fence post 4 ft up and torment the neighbor’s dog who was an annoying bark at everything that goes by type of dog. The dog could jump high enough to get a face full of swiping claws before beating it back to his back porch bleeding from his nose. This happened over and over again.
71.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Mnemosyne: Out in the Oregon wilds, years ago, I watched a bobcat reach down from as boulder and grab a domestic cat for dinner. It was pretty disturbing.
72.
opiejeanne
When my son was about three I put him in his stroller to go for a walk. Before I got off the property a German Shepherd ran at us from down the street, snarling and barking. Our cat, a beautiful ex-tom tabby, shot off the porch and got between that dog and my son and ran the dog off. I never did find out whose dog that was.
This was a cat who was generally afraid of his shadow, allowed a tiny miniature Yorkie to tree him on a ladder inside our kitchen, but nobody was going to hurt His Boy.
There seemed to be a lot more stray dogs in our town back in the 70s, despite the fact that we had leash laws by then. Stray in the sense that owners let them run loose.
73.
Funkula
We once had a cat who got the better of a raccoon. At least that’s what we figured, since he was laid up with a severe injury (that probably would have been mortal if we hadn’t taken him to the vet) around the same time we found a mortally wounded raccoon and put it down. In the end, it came down to which one had the better support network. Spot made a good choice retaining us as his staff.
Also, weirdest thing I think I’ve ever seen was that he had a giant keloid mass on his chest after the incident, thanks to the abscess the size of a tennis ball he developed, but after about a year the damn thing just sloughed off and didn’t leave a mark. The hair grew back and everything.
74.
opiejeanne
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: We had a cat when I was growing up that played with the puppy next door. It was a cockapoo. Unfortunately for the owners, the poodle half was a standard and it turned into a bigger dog than they expected. After our cat got the wind knocked out of him a few times by Nuisance (they named the dog Nuisance), he only played from a distance, walking along the low fence rail, running across their yard and into a tree with low-hanging limbs. They were still buddies but Nuisance was just too big for him.
75.
ET
I saw this and thought “go kitty go”
76.
Barbara
@CatHairEverywhere: It was a chow mix. Chows can be very aggressive. I don’t like aggressive dogs, I had to find a sanctuary for my too aggressive dog (not an aggressive breed, just a real outlier), but I always feel bad for them, because usually, the fault lies with an owner, even if the owner is just negligent. This dog made a beeline for the toddler — the toddler wasn’t in his way or getting between the dog and his owner or his food.
kindness
That dog would find itself dead pretty quick in my neighborhood. I mean wtf is up with that? Lotsa little kids & 2nd Amendment types if ya know what I mean.
Chyron HR
The ability to ignore virtually all history when advocating for The Next Cat Intervention is as impressive as it is horrifying.
geg6
Now that’s the spirit of Tunch in action!
Belafon
@Chyron HR: We’ve all seen the movies where the cats become self aware and turn on their creators.
BGinCHI
Holy shit. That is one fierce cat. And I agree with kindness: if that dog did that to my kid it would be dead as dishwater. And then I would punch it’s owner right in his stupid face.
And I’m a pacifist.
Danny
That cat deserves to be moved up a couple notches in the food chain. The dog is telling the neighborhood dogs that he was jumped by a pack of saber tooth tigers.
The Moar You Know
Been watching this and it took me straight back to 1969, when I was three years old. One of my first memories. This was like a damn videotape of what happened to me…almost. I did not get bit.
Lady across the street had a mean dog, some kind of German Shepherd. Well, I was outside in the front yard and it got out. Saw me and charged.
Our cat, who hated everyone who wasn’t my mother (including me) was not having some goddamned dog on our property, charged out while I stood there frozen in terror, and went all Alien facehugger on the dog. Ripped the bejesus out of it. Dog fled and cat walked casually back in the house, totally ignoring my screaming, sobbing self.
Neighbor lady comes over hysterical and starts screaming at my mom about how bad her dog was hurt. My mother, being a sensible woman, told her to go fuck herself with a chainsaw.
Dog ended up having to be put down. Cathy-cat lived for quite a few more years. I’d have thanked her, but she’d probably have done the same thing to me that she did to the dog. Nonetheless, thanks, Cathy-cat.
Amir Khalid
TMZ reports animal control took the dog into custody, and has decided to put it down.
Betty Cracker
@The Moar You Know: Great story! We had a cat that did the alien face-hugger thing to my little brother. The brat had it coming, though, so no one thought any less of the cat.
the Conster
Do.Not.Mess.With.Cats.
signed, The Dog
Betty Cracker
A mean neighborhood dog chased my stepmother once when she was riding a bike, nipping at her heels all the way home. My big redneck, gun-loving dad paid the neighbor a visit shortly thereafter. He said, “The next time that dog chases my wife, I’m gonna shoot it. And if it bites her, I’m gonna shoot YOU.” Never saw that dog loose again.
Trollhattan
Dang, kitteh awesome.
Does everybody have surveillance video now? There are TWO camera feeds in that story.
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: In Bakersfield? Prolly.
Belafon
@Trollhattan: One of them is from the nearby drone.
FlipYrWhig
@Chyron HR: Well played!
burnspbesq
The next chapter, given that this is Bakersfield, will involve the dog owner stalking and shooting the cat owner, and not being charged with any crime. This is the part of California that the rest of California would happily give to Texas, and pay the cost of moving it.
jl
@kindness:
” That dog would find itself dead pretty quick in my neighborhood. I mean wtf is up with that? Lotsa little kids & 2nd Amendment types if ya know what I mean. ”
It’s a puzzle, since it happened in Bakersfield. Plenty of 2nd Amendment types there too, with their guns.
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
Everyone in Bakersfield probably does — they have a pretty high crime rate, probably thanks to meth. Los Angeles is only average with spots that are low.
jl
@burnspbesq: give to Oklahoma. Most of them would riot if they got shipped to the vile Texas, which is full of Texans.
Nicole
@Amir Khalid: Good. I love dogs, but that was one aggressive animal.
Amir Khalid
@Trollhattan:
Remember the Cat Bin Lady of Coventry, England? The woman who was caught dumping a neighbourhood cat into a trash bin? She was caught on video by a security camera the cat’s humans had installed.
raven
@The Moar You Know: When I was in grad school right before the Atlanta Olympics I rode my bike to school. I was on my way when a dog down the street ran around my bike and bit my leg. I called animal control and they were useless. I went down to the house where he lived (full of frat boys) and banged on the door. This kid came to the door and I went apeshit on his ass. Got all up in his shit. He looked at me and burst into tears “That is my roomates dog and my best friend just got killed in the AirTran crash in the Everglades!” I felt like shit.
Trollhattan
@Belafon:
The internets is yours, for the day. Use it wisely and return it when finished.
Hungry Joe
No way our pacifist cats would step up like that. Our RIP cat, though, would saunter to the sidewalk whenever a leashed dog walked by, daring it to try something. None ever did, and she was never, to our knowledge, in a for-real fight. Image is everything. Well, a lot, anyway.
We came home one night to see our two cats, and a third cat, lolling in the front yard. Third cat scampered away when we got out of the car. Third cat was a gray fox. We looked askance at the cats, who (sort of) said, “What? What did we do?”
kindness
First thing I did when I moved to where I live now was introduce my 2 dogs to all the neighbors and their kids. My big guy (110 lb shepard/rott mutt) loves everybody and they all love him. It’s so cute to see the kids run up to him squealing when he’s out in the front yard. The lil girl (40 lb lab mix) has an overdeveloped fear of kids and you can’t get her near any of them. I was worried as a lot of people are afraid of big dogs cause….big dog.
Tokyokie
The cats I have now would have to wake up before they could come to the rescue, and it would help if they weren’t scared of bluejays. However, that dog’s lucky he didn’t meet up with the late, great and much beloved Cat 9 From Outer Space, the only cat I’ve had who’d sleep every night curled around my head; Cat 9 disemboweled one of the neighbor’s dogs that he let run loose at night. (That dog and its pack mates had killed several neighborhood cats, including a couple of mine, so I figured it had it coming.)
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Is she related to Osama Bin Lady?
StringOnAStick
I was doing some remodeling work in a room off the garage, and both the garage door and the door from the garage were open. A black lab wandered in, and my now late large fluffy gray kitty went absolutely nuts with the sideways bad-ass dance and the low rumbling growls. Mr. black lab decided he wasn’t that interested in being inside this new house with the crazy cat and hustled right back out the door, with this cat hot on his tail. The lab never looked back, and the cat showed no sign of backing off, so I guess it worked out the best for everyone.
Hal
Any relation to this cat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDPm_t1jFS0
different-church-lady
@Danny:
I thought cats were already at the top of the food chain.
jl
@Hal: Damn. Not that I approve of that cat’s approach to conflict resolution. But why was the woman kicking snow all over the cat? Weird, and definitely provocative. At least there was snow, so it wasn’t Bakersfield. I might be afraid to go there if had to watch out for all the cats, in addition to the Bakersfeldians.
different-church-lady
@Trollhattan: SURVEILLANCE STATE! STASI! FOURTH AMENDMENT!
Fuck it, it’s probably all set up by a Home Owner’s Association.
danielx
CATS RULE AND DOGS DROOL!
Also, that dog should be under ground, not under observation.
Tim C.
@danielx: It’s going to be euthanized, they just observe to determine if it was rabid.
J R in WV
We had a rescue dog named Muffin, who had one bad leg. She was game though, ran the ridges, just picked up the right hind leg and tucked it in and did it on three. A neighbor dog, Bernice the Norwegian Elk Hound would come down to visit, she lived with friends who came down often.
One day the two dogs were wrestling in the front yard, and Bernice must of strained Muffin’s bad leg, so she yipped to stop the action. Ralph, a huge white cat with red/orange spots was on the front porch, and felt protective of everyone. He jumped off the porch and landed on Bernice’s back, all claws in action. Bernice screamed and ran out from under Ralph, who stood on his hind legs and walked towards the very big dog, screaming his most aggressive squall.
Bernice ran around him up towards home, and NEVER came back to visit Muffin ever again.
Ralph adopted us years before when a repair tech we knew came to work on an appliance. When he opened the front door, the cat ran in like it was his house. We feared to attempt to evict him, plus he was very affectionate. The other cats left him alone, as he was way more than twice their size.
He was a great companion for nearly 20 years. They broke the mold after they made that cat. I suspect he was from another universe where cats were in charge!
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
Domestic cats are around the middle of the food chain — there are plenty of critters that are happy to try and eat cats, including dogs and coyotes.
Big cats, like mountain lions, are at the top of their respective food chains.
Comrade Mary
You can see how patient (with sensible limits) the cat is with her boy in the second? fourth? video on this page. (You may have to hunt among the thumbnails to find him with her on the chair). He mostly pets her gently, but tries to pull her by her legs a couple of times. She meows politely to tell him to stop.
LanceThruster
The cat’s counterattack reminds me of stories of dolphins ramming sharks with their snouts.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
I’m also quite impressed with follow-up chase after the ‘tackle.’
Oh, it’s ON!
Elizabelle
Soon as I saw three people post this cat video on the Reagan v Upton hotness thread, I knew it would be starring in its own blogpost.
Mnemosyne
@LanceThruster:
You also notice the cat dart under the car after getting the dog into full run — no point in taking a chance that the dog might turn around and get pissed off that he got chased off by a mere cat.
Betty Cracker
@Mnemosyne: It’s a brave AND wise cat!
Felinious Wench
When I was a young girl, our next door neighbors had a giant tomcat that makes Steve look like a pigmy. That cat ruled the street. If a new dog wandered into his territory, the sport was to watch it bow up to Rex and end up running away howling while he chased it down the street. That cat would jump fences to go after an aggressive dog.
For some reason, he attached himself to every child on the street. He would just love on us, pushing us over half the time. My dad, who hates cats, was convinced Rex was really a dog. And if a dog came around the kids, man, there would be blood on the concrete.
Long live Rex, feline protector of Huntington Valley Drive.
Barbara
I had a dog who used to intervene on behalf of cats. She used to sit on our front stoop and keep peace, really for anyone, but most of the time it was to rebuke the other dog in the house for chasing the cats who also lived there. She was a Samoyed that we got from the pound (no kidding) and she was a great dog. Her only flaw was that whenever she wanted to go home she would go to the first car with an open window and jump in.
danielx
@Betty Cracker:
I gotta know….that’s the Shaft theme song, yes?
Betty Cracker
@danielx: And we can dig it!
ruemara
@Tokyokie:
Holy. Shit.
LanceThruster
@Mnemosyne:
That’s some real street smarts, for sure.
Marmot
@burnspbesq: Do you mean to say, “Four fifths of California’s area is wingnut territory”?
A lot of us Texans would prefer that you keep it. We’ve got enough to deal with here.
EthylEster
@danielx: Top Cat!
Mnemosyne
@Nicole:
The defense I’ll make of the dog’s owner is that apparently he did his best to keep the dog under control — it got out while the owner was pulling out of his garage and it was the owner who called 911.
celticdragonchick
My folks African kittehs in Zimbabwe (half domestic and half local African wild cat breed) used to terrorize dogs that came around. My mom heard a dog yelp and went outside. Mama Cat (the pride leader, since the cats socialized in a pride unit like lions) was on top of the intruding dog, digging in with her hand claws and raking the dog’s back and head with her front claws while the poor dog howled and ran, trying to figure out what the hell had just attacked it from above.
I played a lot with Mama Cat and her daughters back here in the states…but I had to wear leather garden gloves. They loved to play, but they never velveted their paws when they played and I still have scars twenty years later.
Trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Damn right.
rikyrah
that is a bad kitty!!
go kitty!
Danny
@different-church-lady: Your typical domesticated indoor/outdoor cat is not at the top.
ChrisTS
@Hungry Joe:
Ha! Our cats frequently consort with baby racoons while the raccoon parents eat the cats’ food.
Patricia Kayden
@Mnemosyne: Learned this year that raccoons eat cats too. Was surprised since they appear to be around the same size.
inventor
@LanceThruster:
I like that too. It’s like: “yeah, keep runnin’!”
Pogonip
John, this is why you shouldn’t over feed your cat. That dog would never have fled with Tunch or Steve waddling after it, but lean, mean Tara put the fear of God into that beast.
I hope Tara got a can of tuna out of the deal. She earned it. And I’m glad the kid is going to be okay.
Pogonip
@Patricia Kayden: Raccoons fight very well. Even good-sized dogs often back away. Just as well since raccoons often have rabies.
MattR
@Pogonip: There would have been no need for Tunch to chase after the dog since the initial shot would’ve knocked it across the street.
Pogonip
@MattR: Sorry, I didn’t get that one. What initial shot?
Roger Moore
@MattR:
More like “into another dimension”.
CatHairEverywhere
@burnspbesq: said “The next chapter, given that this is Bakersfield, will involve the dog owner stalking and shooting the cat owner, and not being charged with any crime. This is the part of California that the rest of California would happily give to Texas, and pay the cost of moving it”
This is my city and sad to say, you are correct, for the most part. Tons of Texans and Oklahomans here already, so not sure they would notice the move. People here are generally very friendly and kind, however, (with some notable exceptions) so we do have that going for us. The local news reported that the mom lifted the bike off the kid, told him to run into the house, then ran to the neighbor’s house at which point the dog attacked her left leg, and the badass cat ran out again and chased the dog off. No surveillance video of that part, though. The dog was extremely aggressive to the animal control officers as well, which was part of the decision to euthanize. This is a part of town where people think it’s a good idea to raise their dogs to be vicious, then fail to contain them in a yard. Awesome.The badass kitty is a very pretty tabby named Tara, by the way.
MikeBoyScout
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Zirgar
Yay, Team Cat! However, if this happened to me, my cat, Sophie, would just sit there watching, wondering why I’m playing with the dog when I should be putting food in her bowl. lol
Stacy
We would catsit our neighbors cat when I was a kid. Arthur was a 19 year old black cat with white paws and a white face. He would saunter across the street at dinner time to let us know when he wanted to be fed. One time a German Shepard was walking down the street when Arthur was over. The cat promptly jumped on its back and rode it around like a cowboy.
opiejeanne
@ruemara: A friend’s cat disemboweled a coyote. It was a young coyote and a pretty big cat, and we figure the cat just got lucky.
Betty Cracker
@Patricia Kayden: Really? Damn, I didn’t know that. My grandfather had a pet raccoon years ago. Very tame. I guess that raccoon gave me unrealistic expectations of raccoon civility.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Hal: I was just wondering why Rosie wasn’t being a little more supportive there.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
My cat growing up was a giant white cat named Casper. He was over 18 lbs. He liked to sit on the fence post 4 ft up and torment the neighbor’s dog who was an annoying bark at everything that goes by type of dog. The dog could jump high enough to get a face full of swiping claws before beating it back to his back porch bleeding from his nose. This happened over and over again.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Mnemosyne: Out in the Oregon wilds, years ago, I watched a bobcat reach down from as boulder and grab a domestic cat for dinner. It was pretty disturbing.
opiejeanne
When my son was about three I put him in his stroller to go for a walk. Before I got off the property a German Shepherd ran at us from down the street, snarling and barking. Our cat, a beautiful ex-tom tabby, shot off the porch and got between that dog and my son and ran the dog off. I never did find out whose dog that was.
This was a cat who was generally afraid of his shadow, allowed a tiny miniature Yorkie to tree him on a ladder inside our kitchen, but nobody was going to hurt His Boy.
There seemed to be a lot more stray dogs in our town back in the 70s, despite the fact that we had leash laws by then. Stray in the sense that owners let them run loose.
Funkula
We once had a cat who got the better of a raccoon. At least that’s what we figured, since he was laid up with a severe injury (that probably would have been mortal if we hadn’t taken him to the vet) around the same time we found a mortally wounded raccoon and put it down. In the end, it came down to which one had the better support network. Spot made a good choice retaining us as his staff.
Also, weirdest thing I think I’ve ever seen was that he had a giant keloid mass on his chest after the incident, thanks to the abscess the size of a tennis ball he developed, but after about a year the damn thing just sloughed off and didn’t leave a mark. The hair grew back and everything.
opiejeanne
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: We had a cat when I was growing up that played with the puppy next door. It was a cockapoo. Unfortunately for the owners, the poodle half was a standard and it turned into a bigger dog than they expected. After our cat got the wind knocked out of him a few times by Nuisance (they named the dog Nuisance), he only played from a distance, walking along the low fence rail, running across their yard and into a tree with low-hanging limbs. They were still buddies but Nuisance was just too big for him.
ET
I saw this and thought “go kitty go”
Barbara
@CatHairEverywhere: It was a chow mix. Chows can be very aggressive. I don’t like aggressive dogs, I had to find a sanctuary for my too aggressive dog (not an aggressive breed, just a real outlier), but I always feel bad for them, because usually, the fault lies with an owner, even if the owner is just negligent. This dog made a beeline for the toddler — the toddler wasn’t in his way or getting between the dog and his owner or his food.
LanceThruster
@inventor:
xD