Cats never try to save you. True or false?

Domestic cat protects toddler from the danger of falling from a balcony. Video screenshot. This is a remarkable video.

The assertion that cats never save humans is false, as numerous internet videos depict domestic cats saving infants from dogs or falls. These videos seem to show cats taking deliberate, protective actions towards humans, typically infants. This is a cat's mothering instincts emerging in the human-cat relationship.

The claim that cats never perform such acts usually stems from those who dislike cats and seek reasons to justify their disdain, arguing that unlike dogs, cats never come to the rescue. However, this is incorrect. There are many examples on YouTube that contradict this claim.

The use of 'never' by a cat detractor is easily refuted by a single counterexample as seen in the video below.

It is one of the most famous instances of a cat saving a child on video. 

Interestingly, when queried about this topic, AI services like Google Gemini and Bing Copilot do not always reference these YouTube videos. Their responses can sometimes be evasive, which serves as a reminder that AI bots are not perfect sources of information.

The video above is almost as astonishing. It appears to show a cat instructing an infant to let go of the balcony railing, seemingly to protect the child from danger. It's rare to observe such clear protective behaviour from a cat. 

The feline seems to have adopted a maternal role towards the toddler, exhibiting protective instincts. This suggests that the cat has recognized the balcony's height as a potential hazard. The cat's behaviour, which seems to anticipate the risk of a fall, is extraordinary. 

It acted with remarkable insight and a positive intervention. In this case, attributing human-like awareness to the cat doesn't seem like anthropomorphism.

Here are some more:

In this video we can clearly see the family cat protecting the toddler from falling down the stairs:

Below is another story of a cat helping to save a dog this time:

And here we have a black cat jumping in at night to save a family dog from a coyote attack. The cat dived in courageously to drive away the coyote:

There are many other videos. These are examples.

It's quite clear what's happening. Humans often consider their cats as family members, and cats reciprocate by feeling they belong to the family. 

They may see their owner as a substitute mother and behave and feel like kittens themselves. However, there are times when this role is transformed, and they assume the maternal role for a toddler, baby, or even another pet like a dog. 

In this maternal role, they become protective of the toddler, which explains the numerous instances of domestic cats defending toddlers both inside and outside the home.

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74-year-old woman's cat attacked the 60-year-old man who was throttling her

NEWS AND COMMENT: A 60-year-old man was arrested for assaulting a 74-year-old women because she refused to permit him to drive her car which she had allowed in the past. The lady has a cat who dived into the fray and jumped on the man as he throttled the woman with one hand and covered her mouth and nose with his other hand. 

It appears that the man is scared of cats! Job done them. Fortunate outcome and brave of the cat. This is yet another example of a cat companion defending a human, this time an adult human, when under attack. In another post I reported on a female cat successfully defending her dog companion from an attack by a couple of coyotes in the backyard.

In other videos I have seen domestic cats protecting babies and kids from danger including falling down stairs and being attacked by stray dogs. It happens a lot, strongly indicating that cats see themselves as part of the family (and vice versa) and a protective mother to the family members with whom they are close. So much for the domestic cat being 'solitary' creatures. They are not. They've become very sociable.

Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Name of man: Nathaniel Charles Derouen

He is out on a bond of $35,000. A bond is posted on a defendant's behalf, usually by a bail bond company, to secure his or her release.

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Female community cat who became a pet scared off 2 coyotes attacking dog companion

This is another one those impressive cat stories were the modest cat companion protects either a dog or a child or even a toddler from danger including attacks from coyotes. 

This story proves that domestic cat companions living in homes where there are dogs and kids, regard the dogs and kids as companions, even offspring to be protected. It is female cats who appear to regard kids and dogs as their offspring to be protects and defended when danger is present.

They take on the courage of the mother cat protecting her kittens and take enormous personal risks. 

In this video we see the family's black cat, Binx - who the family adapted as she walked into their home as a community cat - notice that her small white dog companion was being attacked by one of two coyotes. The attack was about to be fatal when the Binx intervened and the coyotes decided to leave.

The video is interesting also because coyotes often attack and kill domestic cats in the US. Cats know that coyotes are a predator to them. And yet this cat runs towards them and takes up the larger profile to try and scare them off. She succeeded. 

It is unsurprising in one way because mother cats are fearless when protecting kittens.

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Turkish Van cat lookalike brings her kittens to the person who feeds her in an act of deep trust

The video on Twitter says that this cat was being fed by a person and decided (wisely, it has to be said) to bring her kittens to the person for help in raising them. It is a beautiful example of complete trust from a cat in a human. Good on that human whoever they are.

We are not told but it would seem to me that the video was captured somewhere in the Mediterranean region and perhaps even in Turkey as this cat is a dead ringer for a Turkish Van purebred but is in fact a stray cat.

RELATED: The Real Turkish Van Cat.

The Turkish Van in Turkey is more purebred than the registered selectively bred Turkish Vans in cat shows in America.

Most cat breeds have lost their inherited connection with their origins due to intensive selective breeding by breeders over decades in following breed standards.

Heroic cat charges into large pack of dogs one of which was savaging another cat to save their life

We don't know the relationship between the cat who was grabbed by a dog who was a pack member and the lifesaving cat but this amazing cat charges at the dog with the other cat in its mouth and scatters the pack. The courage was enormous. It is probable that this cat is the mother of the young cat who was attacked and who would surely have died fairly quickly but for the intervention.

The main impression one gets from watching the video is courage and fearlessness. She dives in knowing that there was a strong risk of injury or death. She throws herself at the central dog who led the attack. Her forelegs are in front of her, claws out to smack the dog around the face. The dog releases the young cat. Both cats scram. 

The quality of the picture below (a screenshot) is hopeless but it is on the page to provide a 'featured image' for SEO purposes.

On the internet you will see a lot of videos and still images of mother cats defending their offspring. I can't be sure that's the case in this video but I feel that it is.

Cat brings baby rabbit home and locates mother's nest so that it could be returned to its siblings

Well, this is interesting and a bit different. A woman has videoed her black-and-white cat bringing a newborn rabbit into her home and delivering it to her. Her cat then led her to the spot where the mother rabbit's nest was buried in the ground outside, covered in fur and straw. 

Cat brings baby rabbit home and identifies mother's nest so it could be returned to its siblings. Screenshot from video below.

Inside were the baby rabbit's siblings. She reunited the lost and found sibling with the rest of the family and left them alone. She confirmed that the mother rabbit had returned and continued to care for her family which confirmed that her intervention had not disturbed her parenting.

Her assessment is that the rescued baby rabbit had crawled out of the nest and was found by her cat who took it up in her jaws and brought it inside. The cat was handling the rabbit as if it was one of her kittens it appears. It was totally unharmed.

In bringing the rabbit home the cat was asking her human caregiver (acting as the cat's surrogate mother) to help her reunite the rabbit with its family. That's my interpretation. 

It is unusual but plausible in my view.

The key point is that the cat did not regard the baby rabbit as a prey animal but as one of her offspring. It appears that her motherly instincts were the prime motivator for her actions.

It is an example of a cat performing the task of rabbit rescue as opposed to a human performing the task of cat rescue. Something different as I said.