Zatara (Tara for short),[5] is a female tabby cat who rose to international fame in May 2014 when she stopped a dog attack against her owners' four-year-old child in Bakersfield, California, United States.
[5][8] On May 13, 2014, Jeremy Triantafilo, a four-year-old boy, was riding his bicycle in his family's driveway in Bakersfield, California when Scrappy, a neighbor's eight-month-old Labrador-Chow mix, came from behind and bit his leg.
[1][12] The eight-month-old Labrador-Chow mix Scrappy was surrendered by its owners to the City of Bakersfield Animal Care Center on May 13.
Animal Care Center director Julie Johnson said they were also flooded with phone calls asking for the dog to be saved.
[16] However based on the observations in the kennel during the quarantine period, the dog remained classified as "vicious" and "dangerous"; so adoption requests were denied.