My Cat Beats Up Dogs (well, almost)

This weekend we went for a walk to our local park, about 200m away from our house. As usual our two cats, Toby and Josh, followed us down to the park and waited for us patiently on the edge, not daring to move out of their boundary. As we returned home we encountered a large dog which instantly too an interest to the cats. Toby, the larger of the two cats immediately legged it up the nearest tree, but Josh, ever the adventurer, arched his back, stuck his tail up in the air and stood on his tip toes while hissing - he was trying to make himself look as scary and big as possible. If you know him, you'll know that Josh is FAR from scary...

The dog took no notice of this and kept walking towards Josh. By this time, I was more than a little concerned and tried to put myself between the dog and Josh - didn't want the little guy to get hurt - but unfortunately the dog and Josh were moving too quickly, so I wasn't being of much use. Suddenly, out of the blue, Josh charged at the dog making an awful noise as he went - the poor dog didn't know what was going on, turned, yelping as he went and legged it towards his owner. RESULT! It was so funny to see such a small cat (Josh is only ickle) chase such a large dog away.

I was so proud of the little guy - he was truly an amazingly brave cat. Josh jogged back home with his tail in the air and deservedly had an extra large dinner while I spent time coaching Toby out of the tree... he was all shook up.