I saw the woman interviewed on Fox. The cat had attacked her grandmother’s dog (I’m assuming it’s the little dog in the video). She had adopted the cat from some people who were going to have it put down. She said since she had the cat, it had bitten two other people. She was trying to shoo it away when it attacked her.
The bites got infected, she had to go to the ER. The cat had to be tested for rabies. The video was from a security camera the woman had set up. She was upset that the cat was destroyed, but happy it did not have rabies.
I do remember a cat at my aunt’s farm. He was a tuxedo cat. He had a little black mustache so I called him Hitler. If I dared enter his barnyard, he would sidle up and rub on my skinny little bare legs and then just as my guard was down, he would rake me with his claws. So whenever I saw him I threw barnyard dirt at him. He finally go the message and stayed away. It was that same summer that I witnessed a bull mounting a cow. I was about 8 years old and pretty upset. My adults laughed at me. I’m still scarred. By the laughter, not the cat.
The cat was destroyed? I don’t particularly care for cats, but that cat was responding to actual cruelty IMHO. Awful ending.
So the irresponsible witch had a cat that she hadn’t bothered to get shots for?
Any cat bite must be tended to ASAP. The infection starts fast and if you don’t get on the right antibiotics the first day you can be in for major pain and surgery. I’ve worked with feral cats many years and the bites start hurting bad within a few hours. So for those that don’t know, get to a dr. Within the first 12 hours. There is a bacteria in their mouth that at least in my case caused infection every time. Sorry I laughed if she was trying to help the cat. I have been able to turn big old toms into sweethearts, but there was a cat I named bad kitty that cost us over $1500 in vet bills when we moved that didn’t belong to anyone. We relocated him by a water source and away from homes. I feel this cat had been treated badly at some point just like the one in this story. I’ve worked with dozens of them and each time I was bitten it was trying to catch one to get it to a vet or their first vet visit when the thermometer was being stuck up their bottom! That’s pretty scary for anyone!
They put down the wrong animal