Awesome.
>Others came to the cat grabber’s defense: “He did what he had to do ... get over it.”
I’m a cat lover and I tend to agree with the pragmatist’s side of things; sometimes the only way to catch the cat IS to grab the tail.
I am not a cat lover but I seem to have adopted a few at my place. (5 daughters tend to attract them)
I have on occasion picked a cat up and tossed it out the door by the tail. It seems that one of the cats likes me and I don’t mind him much. The other one doesn’t have the brains that god give a dog.
Poor kittie. Humiliating him in front of thousands of people is just too too painful. Kittie deserves a special place in the dugout for the rest of the season.
And the ump should go to the pound.
THAT IS ALL
I love kitties, and I’m sure it’s not that big a deal. It happened briefly, and probably didn’t hurt much (but might hurt alot more for the guy who does it). Was this the easiest way he had to catch the cat (catch a tiger by the tail...)?
You always have such great pix!!!!!
We have done a lot of feline rescue work in the past, and we also currently own six cats ... and I will not pretend to you that I have NEVER grabbed a cat by the tail! LOL! Soometimes that is the only way to get hold of them, when they are scurrying by you like a streak of lightning! But it is important to remember that you should NEVER grab a cat by the tail and then toss it around, unless your intent is to hurt the animal. Remember that a cat’s tail is actually part of its spinal cord, and if you go flinging it around by the tail, you can inflict spinal damage.
If you ever find yourself in a position where you have just grabbed a cat by the tail, the proper way to pacify it is to then grab the back of its neck and simply hold it in position on the ground until the cat calms down a bit. However, you also should never lift an ADULT cat by the back of the neck, since the weight of the adult cat on the spinal cord can, again, cause damage. (A kitten’s negligible weight will not cause the same damage.) Anyway, once you have the cat by the back of the neck with one hand, use your other hand to pick up the cat by the body and take it wherever the cat needs to go. You may want to hold the cat’s back feet together so that it can’t kick the hell out of you.
Obviously, humans come first and you should do what you need to do to ensure your safety. But most people do not know that flinging a cat around by its tail can actually inflict permanent spinal injury. Just wanted to make that clear, for those who care.
Maybe he should have shot the cat instead?
O_O