--- title: Cat Fights Off Three Coyotes in Security Video description: Footage captured by a security camera shows Max the cat fending off the trio coyotes as they attempt to gang up on him. canonical: https://time.com/5763740/cat-fights-off-coyotes/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-01-13T15:49:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:02.161Z og:title: Three Coyotes Don't Impress This Unfazed Cat Much og:description: Max the cat wasn't going down without a fight og:url: https://time.com/5763740/cat-fights-off-coyotes/ 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: Three Coyotes Don't Impress This Unfazed Cat Much twitter:description: Max the cat wasn't going down without a fight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Three Coyotes Fail to Impress Unfazed Cat Named Max in This Showdown > Sponsored content. 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Cats may have a reputation of being standoffish creatures who show their owners affection merely to fill their tummies_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 13, 2020 3:49 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 13, 2020 3:49 PM UTC There’s nothing better than when the underdog comes out on top. Or, in this case, undercat. That’s exactly what happened during a recent showdown between a particularly plucky [house cat](https://time.com/5748791/cat-filter-reaction/) and three [coyotes](https://time.com/5656480/chicago-coyote-pup/) outside a home in the [Los Angeles](http://content.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1844490%5F1844431%5F1844091,00.html) neighborhood of Highland Park. Footage captured by a security camera shows Max the cat fending off the trio of larger attackers as they attempt to gang up on him in the alley behind his house. Max, for one, wasn’t having any of it. “He’s always been crazy,” Max’s owner, Maya Gurrin, told [CBS Los Angeles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVqA8Rs7AM). “Like if this were to happen with any cat, it would be him.” Gurrin added that Max’s time as a freewheeling outdoors cat has now come to an end. But she said that she’s planning on building him an outside enclosure so he can still get some fresh air without being in danger of ambushes by wild animals. 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