This really good boy wandered into the wrong neighborhood..

[Dennis Donovan]

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This really good boy wandered into the wrong neighborhood..

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10:10 AM - May 10, 2020

Pupper has like NO chance against that!

[BusyBeingBest]

1. Who ISN'T afraid to walk past gangs of street toughs?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. "When you're a cat you're a cat all the way..."

[wnylib]

26. From your first catnip taste

to your last dying day.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. That made me laugh. Thanks.

[Fla Dem]

3. Lol, those were some fierce kitty cats. Felt sorry for the doggy.

[skypilot]

4. Dog should be on a leash and...

...not lead into that situation. This didn't end too badly but it could have.

[Laelth]

5. Somebody who cared for the dog was close enough to film it.

I hear you, and I am equally glad that this didn’t turn ugly. It could have.

-Laelth

[demmiblue]

7. I had the same thoughts. n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Actually, the dog looked very well behaved

...and it was on an apparently quiet residential street.

[skypilot]

10. Not the point.

The person who was filming this could have more easily lead the dog away from the situation with a leash rather than just letting it play out to see what would happen. I would never walk a dog into the midst of a bunch of angry looking cats no matter what the street was like.

[csziggy]

11. True - we had that situation years and years ago

A new neighbor came over to introduce himself with his pit bull. The dog was very well behaved but my husband's black cat - who looked a LOT like the one that jumped the dog in the video - took exception to a dog on his territory.

The cat jumped the dog - trying to bite through his spinal column, tearing at his ears with the front claws, and ripping at his eyes with the back claws. It took my husband three tries (and a good amount of blood) to get the cat off the dog long enough for the neighbor to hustle the dog back into his truck.

In the ten years that guy lived next door, we never saw that dog again. The neighbor never told us what damage the cat had done to the poor dog. The cat was mad at us for a week since we didn't let him finish off his prey.

[skypilot]

12. Ouch, ouch and ouch.

Hope this didn't sour your relationship with the neighbor.

[csziggy]

13. No, we were OK with the guy

But he had rubbed us the wrong way at the beginning. We warned him to keep his dog away from the cat and he shrugged it off. "I'm a veterinarian, if my dog tears up your cat, I'll sew him up for free."

He didn't realize that it was the dog who we were trying to protect!

[skypilot]

15. "...if my dog tears up your cat..."

He did NOT say that, did he?!?

[csziggy]

16. Yep, he did - we took it as red-neck banter

Trying to be amusing. At heart he was a pretty decent person and a very good vet. But my husband's cat put him in his place, for good as far as we were concerned.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. You would think a vet would know very well what cats are capable of.

[skypilot]

18. Red-neck banter. OK.

Those word just resonate in a different way to my Mid-Atlantic ears.

[wnylib]

27. Ditto, from another Mid-Antlantean

[demmiblue]

14. Poor pupper! I hope you offered to pay the vet bill and rethought the whole outdoor cat idea. n/t

[csziggy]

20. No, see my reply #13 - the guy was a veterinarian

The cats we owned back then were all feral rescues and there was no way to keep them confined in the house. In fact, most of them were adopted as barn cats and moved themselves into the house at night. They would commute to work in the mornings when we walked to the barn to feed the hoses.

Plus, we had (and still have) 60 acres for the cats to roam on. This was before coyotes moved into the neighborhood but that cat would have put a coyote in it's place. We never lost a cat to coyotes, dogs, or foxes - or cars or other outdoor hazards.

Our next cats will be indoor only - when we finish with our addition and rebuilding the screened porch (which will be a catio).

[demmiblue]

21. I see... I didn't read that before I posted.

I had a dog attacked by another dog who the owner (well, actually it was the son's dog that he was taking care of) couldn't control. It was traumatic, though it could have been a lot worse... I defended my dog. I saw the dog roaming around several times afterwards. I could barely take my doggo for a walk without fear of her being attacked again.

As far as cats, if they don't run and hide before we are close, I cross the street or turn around.

A catio!

[csziggy]

22. We posted at the same time so no wonder you didn't see it!

Yeah, I'm glad I don't live in a real neighborhood. When we moved here over forty years ago there was plantation behind us and farms on either side. Now the plantation land has been subdivided as was the farm to the south. Lots of people who think a 3-5 acre lot is a hunting preserve. They let their dogs run free, but my mares go after canines so that tends to limit them getting up to the house area.

Even so, I don't want to have to worry about cats running free. Our last cat (another feral rescue) stood up to pit bulls and foxes as well as chased deer but he crawled off under a tree at seventeen and a half and it was months before we found his remains. He was curled up as if he'd just gone to sleep so I'm sure he was not killed by a predator. I don't want that heartbreak of not knowing again.

[RKP5637]

6. Safety in numbers!

[sl8]

9. Did you see the one a couple of tweets down with the sanitation worker and the HS grads?

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[Dennis Donovan]

24. Wow...

[smirkymonkey]

23. Just seeing those arched backs scared the crap out of me.

I would have grabbed that pupper and run in the opposite direction.

[wnylib]

28. My cat arches her back as a bluff

when she is frightened. She does not attack in that posture, and is more likely to run and hide when her back and fur are up.

But when she growls and hisses - BEWARE. That is when she will attack.

But she is a pacifist at heart. As a kitten, she did not have the socialization necessary to learn restraint in her play. So in her ambush games with me, my legs often got scratched - until the day she discovered her own strength.

One day her claw caught a small vein near my ankle and it bled a lot, down into my shoe. She stared at the blood and followed me to the bathroom doorway where she watched me, wide-eyed, as I held one paper towel after another on the spot until it stopped bleeding through. Put antiseptic and Band-aid on it, cleaned out the shoe, etc.

She sniffed my ankle afterward and from that day onward, never let her claws out when ambushing my legs. She is a totally indoor cat, has never hunted anything, although the instinct is there. It's as if the sight of the blood startled her with the realization of what damage she can do.

[Duppers]

25. Poor pup. 😡

Guess that switchbladed gang of thugs couldn't read a friendly dog's signals. Yes, the person filming should've gotten the kid out of danger.

(Btw, I'm not bigoted against kitties - love most cats & hate mean, cat-killing dogs.
It's not the species, it's the behavior.)