Tinley Park Dog Owner Calls Cops -- On a Cat

A small black-and-white pet cat so terrorized a Tinley Park resident and his 70-pound Labrador that the man called the cops, police said.

The man emerged from the cat attack on 71st Court unscathed “due to him wearing pants,” police said, but his dog wasn’t so lucky. The Lab was left cut and bloodied, the man reportedly told police, and had to be cleaned up when he got back home.

An officer went to the man’s house and checked the yellow Lab out but “could not see any redness or wounds on the dog’s face,” police said.

The 33-year-old man told how he had been walking his dog on 71st when an “unknown black cat” darted off a porch and “attacked both him and his 9-year-old male yellow Labrador,” police said.

The cat weighs about 10 to 12 pounds, according to police.

A neighbor told police about a resident who “does own an aggressive black cat that runs at large every day,” but no one answered the door at her house. The dog-owner claimed the “cat had been aggressive for a while,” police said, but conceded “this was the first time it made contact with him and his dog.”

An officer later tracked down a “black cat with a white chest and white paws,” police said. “As (the officer) neared the cat it got onto its back and raised all four paws up in the air.”

The cat was wearing a pink collar and a tag imprinted with the name “Kelli” and a telephone number. It was not clear if Kelli is the name of the cat or its owner.

An officer reportedly called the number and left a voicemail message, then transported the cat to the People’s Animal Welfare Society, a no-kill shelter. The officer “advised the cat could not be released prior to providing proof of a rabies vaccine.”

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