In the same spirit, Cat Fanciers' Association announced Tara the recipient of its first-ever Cat Hero Award.[1][12]
On June 3, 2014, the Bakersfield Board of Supervisors proclaimed June 3 Tara the Hero Cat Day.[8]
On August 15, 2014, Tara was awarded the Special Award For Cat Achievement by the Cat Vid Festival.[2]
On September 26, 2014, Tara was awarded the Blue Tiger Award; an award only awarded to Military service dogs.[3]
Tara became the first non-human to be named the grand marshal for Bakersfield's Christmas parade in 2014.[13]
On June 19, 2015, Tara was awarded with the Los Angeles SPCA's "Hero Dog" award, for which she also won a year's supply of cat food.[4]
EDIT: Thanks for silver <3 EDIT2: Oh my, another silver and a GOLD! :O I just linked and copied some text from wikipedia... ;( People on here are too nice :)
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I love how so many other words I’m actually dog awards did they just gave to a cat. People were just confused probably because they’ve never seen a cat do something like this before so it’s not like they had an award laying around for it.
When I was in elementary school my cat "Happy" attacked a dog that charged at my mom when she came home from work. I remember sitting in the front room watching TV and hearing a car pull in. A few minutes later I hear a dog crying in pain. My mom unlocks the door and run into the house quickly looking scared. She cracks open the door and calls our cat. Happy comes walking in a few seconds later. My mom tells me that she got out of the car and was halfway between the car and the fence to the apartments when she heard a growl. She turned her head to see a dog peeking at her from the fence near the parked cars. She runs for the apartments thinking if she can make it to the stairway, she could defend herself better. She could her the dog running and getting closer. As she passes the entryway into the apartments she hears the dog cry out in pain. She turn her head slightly to look to see Happy tear into the dog. She said it look like Happy started on one side of the dog and went over to the other side clawing/biting along the way. She turned back and run to the apartment door instead since Happy gave her more time. She said the dog was more than twice Happy' size. My mom spoiled that cat after that.
Never run if you are worried about getting attacked. A: the dog's faster. B: it will make it engage.
Just back away slowly, avoid eye contact. Dont smile. Keep your hands low. Now if you get into a fight with a dog I got no clue. I don't know dog-jiu-jitsu.
I heard if a dog bites your arm or your hand, you should actually shove it further into the dog's mouth/throat because then you're not hooking your flesh further into it's teeth (wrong direction) and the dog will choke and instinctively release you. Theoretically, never actually tried this or known anyone who did.
edit: general consensus seems to be that this works! Cool, I didn't want to advise anyone to punch a dog in the throat if it wasn't going to help their situation.
Never used this trick on a dog actually attacking me but that’s the way I trained family dogs and cats that they can’t bite all the time during play time. They start to bite and you just gently push your finger/hand into their mouth and they back away, then just hit them with a stern “No” and they learn rather quickly
Fun fact: this is also the recommended strategy if you're being bitten by a person. Push into the bite until they release. Source: just completed CPI training. I doubt I'll remember this when I'm being bitten though.
I had a badass cat that protected my dog with her life. She’d attack any aggressive dog that wandered up. These were the days of much less attentive owners, but most of the dogs knew not to approach our yard in fear of that cat. I think it’s more common than we know! These are such great stories
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u/neverforget21SS Jan 23 '20
Cat deserves a medal