[Army Air Corps]

I have seen some vicious dog attacks, but I have never read of a cat attack that was this bad.

[Americanchild]

I used to live near an older lady who had a cat like that. People would refuse to visit unless she had it locked up somewhere! There was something seriously wrong with that cat too; it was crazy even as a kitten.

[A knight without armor]

On a recent thread about a tiger that killed a child (in China?) a freeper noted that if house cats were that size, well..... And isn't that the truth! When you think about it if our pet cats were tiger sized they'd be maiming and killing us all the time. My cat is very tame but if I turn him over and touch his belly sometimes he suddenly grabs my hand with his claws and half bites. That would be horrible if he were tiger sized 400-700 lbs. (according to Wikipedia). I thought that was a very thought provoking idea. Size matters here.

By the way "Four fried chickens and a coke" LOL! LOL! and LOL!

[pandoraou812]

I worked in a animal shelter many years ago. We were getting ready to neuter a cat and thought it was tranquilized enough. My sister in law bent over to check it and the darn cat jumped up and bit into her cheek. It was hanging on her face and we couldn't get it loose. The vet had to come in and actually put it down . We had blood all over and my sister in law lost some muscle control in her face . I would rather be bit (& have been many times) by a dog. When a cat seriously bites its bad.

[U S Army EOD]

When I was stationed near Baltimore in 1966 there was a case of two men breaking into a woman's house and attempting to assault her. They did not count on her Siamese cat protecting her. The cat put both men in the hospital.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I got attacked pretty bad by a cat about 15 years ago. Punctured an artery in my ankle -- lots of blood! Even after I pinned it down to the ground with basically my full weight, got hold of its arm and flung it into a cinderblock wall, it still tried to come after me again. But that was a feral tomcat, not a cat that there was any sign had ever had a home. I had to get a full series of rabies shots, since the cat couldn't be found and was definitely acting bizarre.

[MarkL]

I have seen some vicious dog attacks, but I have never read of a cat attack that was this bad.

I had a friend, who while growing up, had this really big tom cat, who was extremely territorial named "Fang." A new family moved into the neighborhood, and their dog, a full grown German Sheppard, came into their yard and started marking the trees. A few days later, while re-marking the tree, "Fang" came screaming down out of the tree, onto the dog's back. The dog was in really bad shape, and IIRC, took more than 100 stitches to patch up. That dog never came into their yard again (none of the other neighborhood dogs did either. I guess they never told "the new guy."

Seriesly though, a few years later they had to put the cat down, when it began attacking people. It attacked a mailman who maced it, but still needed serious medical attention. The cat was late on his rabies vaccination, so they put him down for the test.

Mark