something in the air...

[Gigas]

Somethings going on!

No doubt after seeing this story from yesterday where a neighbors nasty dog gets out and goes next door to attack a 4 year old kid minding his own business while playing on his bike.

The dirty dog attacks and pulls the kid to the ground rampin up for a vicious dog attack when out a nowhere the families adopted cat saves the day by kickin the dogs azz and it runs with kitty in chase.

[sky otter]

hey sinny  stuck it in her ramblings also

that was a rescue cat... repaying the loving home


Hero cat's family tells story behind boy's rescue: 'Dog did not even know what hit him'


Video: The parents of a California boy who was saved from an attacking dog by the family cat tell TODAY about the remarkable rescue, captured on video that has gone viral.

.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.

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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.

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"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.


Little Jeremy told his parents "it feels better" and is looking forward to getting out there to play again. "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."

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http://www.today.com/news/dog-did-not-know-even-what-hit-him-hero-cats-2D79669571

[Shasta56]

I couldn't get the youtube clip to wirk yesterday, but I saw the video on national news this morning.  That's quite a cat.

Shasta

[burntheships]

That is one awesome bad ass cat!

@ Gigas, thanks for posting!

As to the disturbance, yes here on that one.
I did notice the full moon and thought that
might be it. However I think there is more
to it than just the moon...

I have lots of birds in this neck
of the woods, all sizes and  kinds.
I have only seen one hummingbird
though, and the small finches we had
seem to have gone elsewhere, or vanished
...that might be a bad sign.
The rest seem seem to be fine so far.

It really is the bees i am very concerned
about! I dont have hardly any compared to
last year, and we do not use anything that
would harm them here. Cant say for
my neighbors. But, if there is one thing
I can point to that bids a distrubance,
that it is.

[Sinny]

Oh I didn't post the story in my ramblings, what an awesome story Sky 

[robomont]

the bees dissappeared during the drought at my place but moved into a log next to my garden this year.the log is laying on the ground and not even a foot in diameter.i put another hollow half log over it to keep them even more sheltered.
my yard is full of birds .they help theirselves to the dry dogfood i feed to my dogs and cats.jays,finches,wrens,cardinals and crows.

[The Seeker]

Nice catch, Gigas; that was one more bad putty tat... and I enjoyed seeing it rescue that youngling...


seeker

[ArMaP]

We had snow here Sunday.

I'm sure that doesn't help.

Here, we are having sunny days and 28º Celsius.

[The Seeker]

The weather is weird here today in Georgia; was 89 degrees Monday Tuesday and Wednesday then 61 today and dropping to mid 40's tonight; for the first time in several years we are having average rainfall this spring instead of flooding, so I have 44 tomato plants, peppers, watermelon, squash, corn, and green beans already planted and doing well...

a pleasant change until this cold snap...


seeker

[ArMaP]

The dirty dog attacks and pulls the kid to the ground rampin up for a vicious dog attack when out a nowhere the families adopted cat saves the day by kickin the dogs azz and it runs with kitty in chase.

There's one thing wrong in the sentence above, it was the cat that adopted the family (something common with cats), as five years ago she follow them home from a park.

[The Seeker]

Armap, you can own a dog or a parakeet; cats have a tendency to pick out their designated human that they associate with...



seeker

[robomont]

thats alot of tomato plants.got eighteen myself.corn is almost five foot tall but okra that was planted about same time is only six inches.yep got that cold last night but real pretty day today.lots of sun.

[ArMaP]

Armap, you can own a dog or a parakeet; cats have a tendency to pick out their designated human that they associate with...



seeker

I know.

[Fruitbat]

Most pets have "owners", cats have "staff".

What a super cat though!

Fends dog off, checks kid and then goes back and makes sure that dog is not coming back.

Living with animals is a bit humbling. They may not be as smart as us in many ways, but they are smart where it counts.
Come the SHTF I have long ago decided I will eat human before I eat my cat..

FB.

[thorfourwinds]

The weather is weird here today in Georgia; was 89 degrees Monday Tuesday and Wednesday then 61 today and dropping to mid 40's tonight; for the first time in several years we are having average rainfall this spring instead of flooding, so I have 44 tomato plants, peppers, watermelon, squash, corn, and green beans already planted and doing well...

a pleasant change until this cold snap...

seeker

Your neighbor and friend to the North...





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