June 10, 2006
Picture of the Day: The Cat Who Scared The Bear
This week might not have been the best week for small dogs but fat felines should certainly be proud of their kind. Why? Well look at that picture above. That's Jack the cat protecting his owners yard in West Milford, New Jersey from a visiting black bear.
When the bear first came into the yard Jack went after him and scared him up a tree. After fifteen minutes the bear finally got the balls to come back down, only to be chased up another tree minutes later. Finally, worried for the safety of their 15-pound-pussy Jack's owners called him back into the house and the bear went away. Not exactly New York news, but still, how cool is that cat?
Photo by AP Photo/Suzanne Giovanetti
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That picture is fantastic.
And I thought my childhood cat was a bad ass for chasing a Red Fox around the lawn.
Orange Tabbies are always badasses.
Can I borrow Jack for tomorrow? He\'d probably come in handy at the Puerto Rican Day parade.
But why\'s the cat sitting at the bottom of the tree? It\'s not a dog. It should be able to climb right up after the bear.
More proof of the over-development of suburban sprawl in New Jersey. How many bear stories have we had from New Jersey in the past few months?
Jack is an indoor housecat and his front paws are declawed.
Jack is one cool kat.
That is amazing. I hope Stephen Colbert picks up on this for the Threatdown.
I love it! Thanks for posting this pictures!
Errr... if he\'s an indoor housecat, what the heck is he doing outside.. with a bear?
By the way, declawing is barbaric. Shame on you.
Wow how stupid. Did anyone else notice that they have a 15 pound pussy. I bet that 15 pound pussy is nice an comfortable.
I have a 15 pound who kills mice and brings me home snakes, well now he is going to have to step up to the plate and meet this challenge!!!
Just got to find a tree and two bears!!!!
I just stumbledupon your site... and found my favorite photo from the newspaper. You obviously have good taste.
This is incredible!You would thought it would be the EXACT OPPOSITE,and the BEAR would have CHASED the CAT up the tree!Oncontraire,the CAT chased the BEAR up the tree!!Way to go JACK,you COOOOL cat you!!!!
Jeez. That made my day!
I've sent this picture to friends all over the country. It's one of the best I've seen in a long time.
Great Job - cat and photographer. Just love it.
Er, don't try this yourself at home, Moggies.
You know I telling a friend at work. That this bear is acting like and elephant and he see's a mouse and starts dancing all around (Scared). He could easily just squash it. But, then my friend replied to my comment and said well, when I see a mouse and I am bigger than it I jump too.
HA! HA!
Come on, this can't be true.
It's either faked, or the cat is a lion borned a few days ago.
Otherwise that is not understandable :P
the comment by 'mark' is both assumptive and ignorant. we don't know who do declawed the cat or why. maybe it was adopted this way, as was one of mine. The important thing is...Jack kicks ass! Even without claws, Jack would probably make 'mark' piss himself. Hooray for Jack.
This is too cute! (In reference to both the bear and the cat)
I can do pics like this with image editors. So it isn't big deal!
I have a pet Bengal who would really chase him up the tree! lol
I just don't have anything to say , but shrug. So it goes. Not much on my mind recently. I can't be bothered with anything recently.
My life's been pretty dull recently. Shrug. My mind is like a void. I haven't gotten anything done lately. I can't be bothered with anything recently.
This has gone straight to facebook as a shared link. I've seen cats chase bears before, but never up into a tree while keeping them there! Nice