Heroic ***** saves boy from dog

[DinoDoc]

Hero cat saves boy from vicious dog, becomes Internet star (with video)

By LISA GUTIERREZ
The Kansas City Star

Here’s what cat owners everywhere are saying about the viral video of a California cat heroically protecting a little boy from a vicious dog attack.

Yep, cats are like that.

And a 4-year-old boy named Jeremy is thankful that they are.

He was riding his bike after school in front of his home in Bakersfield, Calif. when a neighbor’s dog, an 8-month-old Labrador/chow mix, launched a sneak attack on him.

The dog was biting and dragging Jeremy when suddenly the family cat, Tara, jumped out of nowhere onto the dog, chasing it off.

Jeremy’s mom, who was close by, heard her son screaming and came running.

The neighbor, who had been pulling out of their gated driveway when the dog escaped, called 911, according to ABC affiliate KERO in Bakersfield.

Jeremy’s dad, Roger Triantafilo, posted surveillance video of the attack on Wednesday and the video, which he titled “My Cat Saved My Son,” quickly went viral. It’s been watched nearly 6.2 million times.

KERO reports that Jeremy, who needed a few stitches, is doing fine now. The dog’s not so lucky. Police tell the TV station that the canine will be quarantined and then euthanized.

Jeremy’s mother, Erica, she’s not upset with the neighbors. She’s just thankful that Jeremy wasn’t hurt more severely.

“I've never seen a cat do that,” Roger Triantafilo told KERO. “Especially ours. It just shows how much she really has a family-oriented mind set."

100% WOLF

[Sava]

You forgot the important part

[DinoDoc]

You forgot the important part

My bad.
TY for correcting the oversight.

[loinburger]

I wonder if they intended to make it look like the cat turns into a dog at the end

[Sava]

My bad.
TY for correcting the oversight.

just as long as you feel sufficiently bad about yourself

[MrFun]

See? Cats rule the world.

[Tuberski]

That was a momma cat protecting her young.

ACK!

[Felch]

Since dogs are noble beasts, and cats are evil little monsters, I can only assume that the child is the Anti-christ, here to destroy us all.

I hope I'm wrong.

[Sava]

Since dogs are noble beasts, and cats are evil little monsters, I can only assume that the child is the Anti-christ, here to destroy us all.

I hope I'm wrong.

Don't worry. You are.

[The Mad Monk]

Watch closely. There is a short burst of water from a hose just before the mother runs over. The cat got hit with the spray as the mother turned around, ran and collided with the dog -- note how the cat sideswipes the dog rather than hits it head on. It immediately assumes a ready-to-run stance as it shoots a look at the mother, not the dog, and then bolts behind the car, which is only coincidentally the way the dog had just gone.

There. The sanctity and dignity of cat evilness has been preserved.

[Uncle Sparky]

I suspect the boy tasted more or less like chicken... what dog could resist?

[Kidlicious]

If that kid dies she's gonna eat his face off

[Sava]

Watch closely. There is a short burst of water from a hose just before the mother runs over. The cat got hit with the spray as the mother turned around, ran and collided with the dog -- note how the cat sideswipes the dog rather than hits it head on. It immediately assumes a ready-to-run stance as it shoots a look at the mother, not the dog, and then bolts behind the car, which is only coincidentally the way the dog had just gone.

There. The sanctity and dignity of cat evilness has been preserved.

I don't believe these lies.

[The Mad Monk]

I don't believe that ass.

[Sava]

There's not really much to believe... it's an ass. What you see is what you get.