hero cat saves boy from dog attack

amandasgramma wrote:

chele wrote:
Great cat! Looked to me like Mom was right there, kiddo heading toward her dragging his trike. That dog needs put down without a doubt. Kid wasn't doing anything wring, couldn't have been perceived as any kind of threat. I'm so glad the kid is OK.

I have such mixed feelings about this video. Glad the kid is okay -- though probably will be afraid of dogs from now on. LOVE that the cat protected him. But I wonder......WHY did that dog attack? I had a dog (doxy) that kept trying to attack a neighbor's kid. Every time that dog saw a child about the same height and coloring, she'd try to attack. I eventually had to put the dog down. I found out later (too late :() that the neighbor kid would kick and hurt the dog when no one was around. Why the other neighbors didn't tell me, I'll never know. I had small children and the doxy never hurt any other children except the one (and his look-alikes)...... so, in this case......had the child done something to the dog? Yes, the dog needed to be put down.....but was it just an evil dog or did something precipitate the dog's actions?

It does seem like the dog went straight to his target, yet it doesn't seem like the kid should have been in his line of sight. I can't imagine a kid that young had been loose to terrorize the dog though. I wonder if it could be redireced aggression? Maybe he charged out of his yard going after something else, spotted movement by the kid and attacked?