Hero Cat Saves Boy from Attacking Dog

Warning: This video shows a child being injured, and at the end has closeup stills of the wounds which have been removed. Roger Triantafilo’s four-year-old son was playing in front of his home when a strange dog came up and attacked him. The first to come to his rescue was the family cat, Tara, followed closely by Erica Triantafilo. Tara is one brave cat! Erica tried to chase the dog off, and she was bitten, too.

The boy was taken to a hospital where he received ten stitches. It could have been much worse. The dog has been quarantined. The video was reconstructed from several security cameras. -via Buzzfeed

Uh...anyone else wondering why the mommy was in such a hurry to abandon her kid alone in the driveway? I get that she was calling for help...but she couldn't pick up the kid and swoop him inside?
GOOD MOMMY! YEA!!!

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Interesting how the cat came back immediately after chasing off the dog and stayed with the kid. Mom needed to ID the dog and was probably just out of frame. The cat, at the very end of the action looking a lot less agitated, suggests to me that the threat was gone. From the first bite until all parties moved off screen took only 16 seconds. I think mom and the cat did a fine job.

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lets just fact facts dog owners need to have a harder time owning one in the first place

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We need to enforce the leash laws and fine violators.

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If that was my kid, the dog would have died immediately. I like dogs and I have one. What that dog did was vicious. I'd hate to think what it might have done had it had more time. I'm not big on cats but I sure do like that one. It's first move was to cannon ball the dog. The woman just freaked out. Forgive her. The child's leg would have looked much worse than the picture. The picture was after it had been cleaned up.

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Surprised at how many security cameras cover that small zone. I don't think I'd like to live there, even without the sneak attack dogs.

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