--- title: Violent Dog That Was Chased Away by a Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down description: The infamous dog that attacked a four-year-old child only to be fended off by a heroic cat in an episode caught on video has been put down. canonical: https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-26T15:52:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:01.695Z og:title: Violent Dog That Was Chased Away by a Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down og:description: The infamous dog that attacked a four-year-old child only to be fended off by a heroic cat in an episode caught on video has been put down. og:url: https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Violent Dog That Was Chased Away by a Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down twitter:description: The infamous dog that attacked a four-year-old child only to be fended off by a heroic cat in an episode caught on video has been put down. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dog That Was Chased Away by Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down > Sponsored content. 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But thousands of people had signed onto online petitions like this [one](http://www.yousign.org/en/bakersfield-dog#.U3pBpNh46IQ.twitter) requesting that the dog, who was voluntarily surrendered to animal control, not be euthanized. Tara, the “hero cat” who launched herself at the dog in the video, [threw out the first pitch](http://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/) at a minor league baseball game last week. \[[_TMZ_](http://www.tmz.com/2014/05/25/hero-cat-dog-euthanized-attack/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/"},"headline":"Dog That Was Chased Away by Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down","datePublished":"2014-05-26T15:52:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:01.695Z","description":"Scrappy, a labrador-chow mix, was euthanized despite opposition from animal groups and online petitioners","url":"https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","cat","Viral video","Dog"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/116252/scrappy-dog-tara-hero-cat-euthanized/","name":"Dog That Was Chased Away by Heroic Cat Has Been Put Down"}}]}] ```