Thompson said she was tending her garden when a group of women walking seven large dogs approached on the sidewalk and one of the dogs showed a friendly interest in her.
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“At first I was just shocked that this cat would go after seven dogs”, she said.
“When we were coming back this woman was gardening, and her cat came out of the bushes and started attacking the dogs”, said Rodriguez.
Beside her lay Baby, the stray, cream-coloured cat that adopted the Thompsons nearly 16 years ago. “She’s a watchdog and doesn’t know it”, he said of his pet. “Cats and dogs don’t get along too well sometimes”.
“There is no ambush about it”, she exclaimed.
When Rodriguez reported the incident to her municipality, she found out Saanich only has bylaws on unsafe dogs. “I don’t understand why that isn’t happening with cats”, she said in calling for the municipality to change its animal-control bylaw.
Her three-year-old dog Bandida suffered scratches to her face, ears and chin.
“If you have an aggressive animal, regardless of what it is, it should be kept inside”.
With multiple bloody scratches on her face, Bandida was taken to the Central Victoria Veterinary Hospital for treatment and was given antibiotics.
On Monday night, a bunch of people were walking their pit bulls as part of a group called Pit Bulls of Victoria B.C.
Since that leak, the province’s Order of Veterinarians has had to backtrack for including unverified lobbying material from pit bull owners and breeders in a report it submitted to the panel.
The Montreal SPCA said shelters and pounds will continue to receive abandoned and stray pit bulls and, because they can not be adopted any longer, “healthy dogs and puppies would necessarily be sentenced to death”. “Bandida could’ve killed that cat, but she didn’t even hurt it a bit”, she said.
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The cat’s owner reportedly apologized to Rodriguez and paid for her vet bill. “It specifically went after Bandida and latched onto her face, and the woman didn’t do anything to stop her cat and was just screaming”.
