There's violence and bloodshed well beyond normal?
Saddest thing in the world is to see a Pit Bull or Rottie with a cat planted on their face.
I have had cats that would attack any dog that wandered into the yard. they would leap up attach themselves with their claws to the dogs head and ride the poor thing down.
I have seen on You Tube little house cats attacking and running off bears---funny as Hell.
We have to remember that of all species the cat has never changed its instincts. A full grown cat is no different from the large cats in the zoo---size makes the difference.
Dogs have been breed for different instincts, some hunt, some are house pets. Cats of any size are just all alike from the Lion to your Tabby cat.
We cannot handle a tiger in our home but we can love and be loved by a smaller cat that is thinking as the big boys do.