When a dog attacks a cat, it’s not news. But when a cat attacks a dog, it can be. Especially when it happens on a school playground with lots of children around. And especially when the dog is smaller than the cat.
It seems Rosie the Cat was hanging out at a local primary school’s yard in Cruden Bay, Scotland, as she loves to do. The children give her lots of attention, and she enjoys playing with them, according to the Evening Express.
Then a hapless Yorkshire terrier wandered into the cat’s “territory,” and Rosie apparently attacked him. Reports don’t say if the dog was hurt. It seems the dog was probably more frightened (and perhaps embarrassed).
Rosie’s owner, Angela Blanchard, had no idea her cat had been having a hissy fit at a canine when she got a personal visit from an officer from the Scottish SPCA. The officer told her about the incident, and said it’s under investigation.
Blanchard says Rosie does not, indeed, like dogs. Rosies a lovely little family cat, she is very placid, but I suppose she could attack a dog,” she said.
She told the Evening Express it was “ridiculous” that someone reported her cat to authorities instead of coming right to her.
“What bothers me is that he now has to go away and file a report on this incident. The whole thing has been a waste of the Scottish SPCAs time and money. They do an important and difficult job, and they could do without calls about a cat supposedly attacking a dog,” she said.
