So this morning I was dropping my kids off at school and walking back to the car. There is a little cat who is there daily who loves getting all the attention from walking to school. I do know who owns this cat and wasn’t sure if I should bring this up to her. So I was at the corner of the street about to cross over to my car and the cat stayed at the car, I noticed he was scared and went to hide behind a bush and could hear noises, when I looked around I already saw this lady’s jack Russell dog was extremely aggressive and making weird noises ( sorry don’t own dogs but it just seemed like a very aggressive dog even before this) she had the dog on a lead at this point. Next minute I was getting in to my car and heard noise and turned around and the dog was no longer on its lead ( the owner had let it go) and it was attacking this cat and throwing it around. I obviously got quite disturbed and told the woman to grab hold of the lead of her dog and to stop letting it attack the cat and watching it and letting this happen ( I also had my 1 year old with me who was close to this happening so was also worried in case the dog got more aggressive) the woman got aggressive and came up to my face and started threatening me and spat on me and started telling me “ the cat attacked my dog first, I NEED to let my dog defend itself” meanwhile she has still not grabbed the lead of her dog and is letting the dog attack the cat and not trying to stop this from happening. Whilst she was threatening me I told her I would call the police and also told her that she can see my small child with me and lots of young children walk this road daily to school and that her dog is clearly aggressive, she said she “ didn’t give a sh*t” and that her “ dog would never hurt someone” meanwhile whilst all of this she was not attempting to get her dog under control and was letting the dog drag the cat around and kept saying “ the cat attacked my dog first I need to let my dog defend itself”. She finally grabbed her dog and the cat ran away and I couldn’t find the dog. Another woman who was walking past was asking me if I was ok and I told her what happened and the woman started walking back to me and pushed me back and told me to “ stop telling rumors about her and her dog and that the cat attacked the dog first” blah blah. Am I in the wrong? I told this woman that even if the cat attacked the dog first ( which I don’t believe it did because it was already hiding behind a tree before the dog actually approached because it was ALREADY acting aggressive before seeing the cat) that it wasn’t right of her to say she needs to let her dog defend itself and watch this dog attack this cat and drag it around whilst it was hurting it because obviously dogs are much more capable of doing damage than cats are.
I just find her behaviour unacceptable that she was not attempting to get her dog under control and grab its lead and was instead defending what she was doing by saying “ my dog needs to defend itself” and letting her dog dragging the poor cat around and the cat couldn’t get free from it.
I am going to look for the owner at school tomorrow and will ask how the cat is and if it was badly injured or if she even knows what has happened, I just think no wonder the dog was so aggressive when the woman herself was aggressive and pushing me around and coming close to my face and threatening me. I wasn’t shouting at her and I’m not a confronting person usually I was just worried about the dog and now I’m feeling like I was in the wrong but it just seemed so wrong to me she wasn’t attempting to take control of the situation and wanting her dog to seriously injure this cat because it “ apparently did it first”