Cat saves boy from dog attack in California (VIDEO)
Derek VandeWeg, Anne Stegen, Lesley Marin
6:17 AM, May 14, 2014

A cat came to her best friend's rescue Tuesday when a young boy was attacked by a dog in his driveway in Southwest Bakersfield and it was all caught on video.

The surveillance video shows the boy, 4-year-old Jeremy, playing on his bicycle. He was coming home from school when he wanted to fly a kite. Jeremy has mild autism.

The neighbor's dog, an 8-month-old labrador/chow mix, sneaks up behind him and bites his leg.

The family's cat, named Tara, rushes the attacking dog and chased it away.

"Tara is my hero," Jeremy said.

...more at link
http://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/wa ... eld-051414

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The news gets even better... the dog is to be killed

UPDATE
http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/story/d ... i0Coy3cCwQ





UPDATE - TMZ
11:34 AM PT -- We're told the dog was picked up Tuesday by animal control -- in an extremely aggressive state -- and a decision has been made to euthanize the animal.

...more at link
http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/14/cat-saves ... z31luSgqJz

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H/T Froggie at CTH......

Complete Security Cam Video (45 minutes)

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From CTH....

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Will he be wearing a CAT-cher’s mitt? Hero feline that saved boy from dog attack will 'throw first pitch' at minor league baseball game

• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
  
• Family cat will make an appearance at Sam Lynn Ballpark on Tuesday
  
• Jeremy Triantafilo was outside his family's California home on Tuesday when the neighbor's dog escaped and grabbed him from behind
  
• But Tara jumped on the dog and chased it away
  
• The boy needed stitches and the dog has been taken by animal control
  
• The incident was captured on surveillance cameras outside the home

By Lydia Warren and Jill Reilly
Published: 09:36 GMT, 16 May 2014 | Updated: 13:11 GMT, 16 May 2014



Tara the cat, who saved a four-year-old boy from a vicious dog attack that was caught on camera is to 'throw first pitch' at a minor league baseball game next week.

The famous feline will be accompanied by her owner's son Jeremy at a Bakersfield Blaze home game at Sam Lynn Ballpark on Tuesday in Bakersfield, California.

On Wednesday, she became the nation's most beloved cat when surveillance footage emerged showing her saving their son Jeremy by pouncing on the neighbor's dog as it attacked him.

Yesterday Tara's owners said she has been best friends with Jeremy since he was born.

She followed Erica and Roger Triantafilo home from a park about six years ago and has been a member of the family ever since, they said.

On Thursday, Jeremy snoozed his way through his first live interview on the Today show as his parents described their shock at Tara's act of bravery.

'It's pretty amazing to see just a cat take on a dog and selflessly put herself out there,' Roger Triantafilo said. 'That dog did not even know what hit him.'

...more at link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -game.html

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What an amazing cat! I wonder why the dog attacked him? What horrible injuries the dog inflicted. Seems like the right decision to put the dog down.

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He's a Southpaw!

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SHE!!!

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Sorry Ginger!

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I think I'm in LOVE

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H/T Puddy, CTH.........

How Tara the Hero Cat rewrote the book on viral video

Opinion: Everyone wants to know how to make something viral but it’s not easy

May 22, 2014, 12:31 p.m. EDT
By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Everyone wants to know how to make something go viral on the Internet, from giant media and tech corporations to small startups looking for publicity to consumers who would like to make a quick buck or have 15 minutes of fame.

So the instant popularity of the video of the cat in Bakersfield, Calif. , fighting off a dog attacking a 4-year-old boy may have some scratching their heads wondering how the grainy, 45-second video from a security camera has become one of the fastest-growing Internet videos, and went viral five times faster than the “Gangnam Style” video by South Korean musician Psy.

“This is a really interesting case,” said Ben Kaplan, founder and CEO PR Hacker , a publicity firm in San Francisco focused on making stories go viral. “It was mass media working together with social media in a way that hadn’t happened before.” Kaplan created a time line of how the video went quickly from the first post at 5:03 a.m. on the website of KERO-TV, a local station in the agricultural town of Bakersfield, to mass media and NBC News at 11:20 a.m.

...more at link
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-thin ... 2014-05-22

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