Yesterday our neighbor was having a BBQ. As we walked back and forth between our houses with various food and drink, our cat Bellini was watching us curiously and seemed to want to participate in the action. She's an outdoor cat who's very adventurous, so we decided to encourage her to follow us to our neighbor's backyard. We didn't plan to let her in the yard, but thought she could hang outside and watch us through the fence until she got bored and went home.
As I entered the yard, our neighbor's rambunctious dog came tearing out of the house and pushed past me out the gate before I even comprehended what happened. The dog raced after Bellini as she took off running. According to bystanders, the two went flying around to the front of the house and Bellini barely made it up a tree before becoming dog food! The dog was called off and taken back to the house, but Bellini stayed up in the tree a good 30 minutes before we could coax her down. Since then Bellini has been uncharacteristically subdued and didn't even sleep with us last night. I think she quite literally had the bejesus scared out of her and it will be a couple of days before she's back to normal!
Below is a picture of Bellini in her normal, pre-dog attack mode. This is a picture of her up on our roof. I told you she was adventurous!
Puck would totally sympathize with Bellini, as this is a regular occurrence at our house! Our dogs are fine with our cat as long as he doesn't dare to set foot in the back yard - then all bets are off.
ReplyDeleteHope she has recovered from her near death experience!