Meet the Brave Cat Who Won a ‘Hero Dog’ Award

For the first time, a Los Angeles shelter’s Hero Dog award has gone to a cat.  In May 2014, Tara the cat fought off a dog that attacked her 6-year-old owner as he rode his bicycle in the driveway of the family’s Bakersfield home.  Tara body-slammed Scrappy, a chow-mix that lived next door, when the dog got out of his yard, ran for Jeremy Triantafilo, grabbed his leg and started shaking from side-to-side. Tara chased the dog toward its home. It was later euthanized.

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Video: Cat Saves Little Boy From Dog Attack

The video is entitled “My Cat Saved My Son.” A little boy is seen slowly riding a bike in front of his home. A dog is seen from another angle circling a parked car. Without provocation, the dog attacks the young boy and pulls him off the bike and drags him while biting his leg. Out of nowhere, Tara,  the family cat, races in and chases the dog off.

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-Igor Purlantov