Miles
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So apparently my cat Louie is a total Badass:
I know it may sound biased coming from me, his owner, but my cat is the most docile, super chill, loving, and nonchalant cat (around humans) I have ever seen. He's both an indoor *and* outdoor cat, and likes to love up to almost every human that comes near him, especially my mom, myself, and my dad. He likes to "talk" (meow) a lot if he wants attention, too.
However, when he deems it necessary, he takes on a completely different attitude. If we're outside with him and a stray animal (or someone else's unknown pet) comes nearby, he becomes fully territorial [of our area] and relentlessly protective [of us].
Today, my mother was outside picking weeds around our weeping crabapple tree near the street, and a woman's dog had apparently gotten loose from her grasp on the leash (or possibly just wasn't leashed anyway). I was inside so I didn't see this happen, but my mother says that, as the dog was walking on the sidewalk across the road, it saw my mother and started to bark at her and "bounce" towards her. Louie had been sitting or lying near my mother, and when the dog (a full grown Labrador) started doing that, Louie jumped up and bolted at him like a tiger, throwing paws and claws and screaming like beast. He was absolutely intending to destroy that dog if he needed to. Luckily for its own sake, my mother immediately yelled at this woman to grab her dog. The owner mistakenly thought my mother asked this because she was afraid the dog would hurt the cat, but my mother quickly replied that no, she was afraid our cat would claw that dog a new face. The woman quickly realized her dog had just pissed off the wrong cat, and grabbed it and started to walk away, looking backwards at my cat every few steps in awe of him and his courageous behavior.
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My cat Archie had an epiphany when he realised that our dogs (Labradors as well) were terrible cowards, although thankfully unlike another of the cats he didn't start to bully them* - rather, he just ignored them when they tried to chase him or other such antics that would earn a slap from the other cat. Friendly though he is, I don't get the impression he'd lift so much as a paw to protect me - too busy fixating on catching birds (as opposed to the rodents that he's supposed to be after.)
What is more concerning is his complete lack of fear of horses; he will sit in the middle of the yard and expect them to walk around him - and so far they have.
*said cat is the reason that the local fox now avoids going too near our barn. -
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