It doesn’t appear to me like she was protecting the dog. It looked to me like she was kicking at the cat for hanging around.
“Michigan resident Maxx says all she was trying to do was protect her mother’s dog.
This summer she had taken in a stray cat, whom she named ‘Buddy.’
On November 30, ‘Buddy’ attempted to attack the dog and that’s when Maxx tried to shoo him away. “
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