It just dawned on me that this one is probably mostly a reaction to a show a saw a few nights back where a woman was malled by a large cat. In this dream, the cat was in our yard and came after my son. I got the cats attention and he was after me and ripping skin from my shoulder and head. I yelled at my kids to go in and continued to try to fight the cat. I can't believe it never dawned on me that I had watched that show... darn, I thought it was all about self-sacrifice.
