So yesterday me and my mum were walking our dogs, a bichon frise and a toy poodle, when a cat attacked us.
We were crossing the side of a house- a walk path, to get from one road to another when a cat showed up at the end of the path right in-front of us blocking our way.
It happened so fast, the cat just showed up in front of us and started biting the toy poodle in the face. I grabbed the bichon frise coz he was right next to me, my mum pulled at the poodle’s leash and basically yanked him off the ground into my mum’s arms but it was already too late. The poodle had already been bitten twice.
We tried to scream for help and run away but the cat kept chasing us. My mum got bit 12 times before the owner grabbed her cat and made it go inside the house.
The owner was just in front of the house at the end of the path apparently letting the cat out to do a poo ‘coz that’s where it usually does it.
The lady insisted that we wait so she can apply some first aid to my mum’s injury so we did while we waited for my dad to bring the car and take us to the emergency room. My mum ended up with 12 bites and a tetanus shot and she has to go back in 3 days. She was bit on her elbow, leg and thigh.
My dog had to get surgery because the cat bit a chunk out of the webbing of his leg near his crotch. The vet gave him 4 stitches, antibiotics, pain meds and a cone so he doesn’t rip his stitches out. He has to go back in 10 days to get the stitches taken out.
The owners of the cat visited us at the vet and at the emergency room and said they would pay for all the vet fees.
Next day my dad rang them up and sent them a copy of the $800 vet bill but they refused to pay because they said they have footage of what happened. They are claiming that their cat attacked us because my dogs were barking.
I was there. My dogs did not make a sound. Not until the cat had attacked my toy poodle.
Is there anything we can do? We live in the Central Coast in Australia (NSW).
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