You always hear about dogs chasing cats. Seldom do you hear about a chase where it's the other way around! I witnessed a hilarious incident here on Sunday. I wish I would have had a video camera!
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| Milo, our ferocious protector |
I was going for a walk down the trail towards the beach with our dog, Spirit and 3 kitties following behind, (Harley, Lexy and Milo), which they often do.
Harley and Lexy are both females about 5 years old and Milo is a one year old neutered male. (Got him last summer from friends who own a farm near here so he's a real outdoor boy.) Milo is friendly and loves to cuddle. He has loads of energy, and runs along keeping up with Spirit on our walks. If fact he usually runs ahead and has to be first!
The 2 girls were lagging behind on the trail so I turned around to check if they were still coming. I saw Lexy suddenly run 20 feet up a tree on one side of the path and Harley went bolting up a tree on the other side. A large young blood hound called Hank came jogging around the corner at that moment, explaining the cats' behaviour. Hank is young, dumb and relatively harmless, and has come to our house a number of times in the past to play with Spirit and bay at our cats.
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| Lexy up a tree |
Milo was standing next to me on the path at that point.
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| Harley, our expert tree climber |
He suddenly puffed himself up and rushed down the path towards Hank, hissing and spitting. Hank took one look and turned and ran! Milo chased him down the path all the way back to our neighbor's place. Even Spirit quickly got out of Milo's way. I quickly walked to the top of the hill near our house and broke out laughing as I watched the chase.
Every time that Hank stopped and turned around, Milo ran after him again and they ran all around our acreage, around the neighbor's yard and through the environmental reserve, out of sight behind the trees. It was so hilarious to see this little ferocious cat chasing this huge dog 10 times his size!!!
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| View from the top of the hill towards the house |
Hank is nothing if not persistant and he finally caught up with Spirit and me at the top of the hill, but so did Milo. Hank was determined to walk with us, but Milo kept him at bay, and wouldn't let him come too close, until Hank finally gave up and left.
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| Spirit, our shepherd/husky cross |
The 2 girls were lagging behind on the trail so I turned around to check if they were still coming. I saw Lexy suddenly run 20 feet up a tree on one side of the path and Harley went bolting up a tree on the other side. A large young blood hound called Hank came jogging around the corner at that moment, explaining the cats' behaviour. Hank is young, dumb and relatively harmless, and has come to our house a number of times in the past to play with Spirit and bay at our cats.
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