>>Sure...
LOL. Yeah, OK! And you're right- on Youtube there's a few videos of cats intervening to save kids.
Not sure whether you've ever seen a dog attack in person? They're quick and if there's more than one proper-sized dog, you're in trouble even if armed with a machete. Even the smallest rat dog deserves respect when its blood's up.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1