I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords.
Posted on 05/02/2010 6:44:19 PM PDT by Chet 99
Woman after house cat attack: 'I was mauled for the kill' by Steven Pope - KIDK
Originally printed at http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/national/92190649.html
REXBURG - A Rexburg, Idaho woman says one of her cats recently attacked her and tried to kill her sending herself and her husband to the hospital.
The Ostermiller family says their cat was completely normal until three days after it gave birth to kittens. But it soon became defensive, and the family says it tried to kill them.
It began last week on Tuesday at about 5:30 a.m. The Ostermiller's were sleeping when they heard a sound.
"All I heard was rrwwwrrrr hisss," Jackie Ostermiller said.
Jackie woke up and saw her cat, Renesmee, (named after the Twilight character) panicking. Jackie thinks a male cat had wandered by outside the home and Renesmee was protecting her kittens.
Jackie went to grab her cat to stop her from bolting out a hole in the screen door. That's when the kitty made its move.
"I was being mauled literally for the kill. She had got a hold of my nose first, my face first, my arms - I was literally screaming," she said.
Jackie's husband, Blaine, was able to pry the attacking feline off.
"I woke up hearing my wife scream, I didn't know what was going on until I looked over there, until I looked over there seeing (the cat) viciously attacking her," Blaine said.
But the cat had already made its mark. Jackie was left with 35 bite marks and 15 bruises.
The cat wasn't through. When Jackie was washing blood off her face, it came back and started attacking her leg a second time.
"She came at me with the deadliest eyes," Jackie said.
"I noticed she was looking at my wife with a weird look," Blaine said.
But even after this whole ordeal, the Ostermiller family hasn't turned their back on cats. They even plan on getting a new kitten soon. But they do have a word of caution.
"I want people to know how dangerous cats can be, they can turn on you in a dime. Believe it or not - cats!" she said.
Jackie feels that none of this would have happened either, if they had just spayed their cat. The family ended up giving up Renesmee to the Rexburg Shelter.
It's likely that it will be put down.
Postpartum
Ping.
I love that picture! LOL too cute and grumpy at the same time!
Just look at her...she’s GUILTY!
(my sympathy is with the cat)
The cat's name was Steven Pope? How odd.
Damned pitcats.
We had my daughter’s seal point Siamese ‘fixed’ some years ago.
She turned into a male. She would get out of the house and go looking for a fight w/ a ‘tom’.
One day she had a tom cornered under the neighbor’s car.
I reached under the car to retrieve her before the fight progressed beyond growling.
WRONG!! She tore me up. I couldn’t believe how viscous a house cat can be.
I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords.
Never ever attempt to pickup a cat that is starting or involved in a fight, hissing contest, etc. My cats absolutely freak out when another cat is seen outside our house through their pet door (that is locked so they can’t go out). I have to grab a water bottle to keep my cats apart, they will fight each other because they are so upset about the cat outside they’ve seen.
I’m sorry the woman got hurt, but I also feel sorry for the cat.
As opposed to figuratively screaming.
This woman is obviously TOO STUPID TO OWN A PET. It is HER stupidity that is responsible for the cat not being spayed and having kittens she felt she had to defend. Too fat and lazy to keep the cat’s claws clipped, too.
I simply do NOT believe this story, and the bites and scratches don’t convince me either. This fool must have done something to rile that poor mother cat up, with her maternal hormones going crazy. Worst comes to worst, she could have simply thrown a towel or rug over the cat until she calmed down.
I don’t think these imbeciles should be getting a kitten or ANY living thing that would be dependent on their care.
And the poor mother cat and her babies must pay the ultimate price for these imbeciles’ stupidity.
NOT FAIR!
Armageddon is nigh.
I heard of someone who tried to break up a cat fight and the cat turned on her and bit her in the face. The problem was, the cat opened its mouth so wide and was so worked up that they couldn’t get the cat off her.
They ended up going to the ER with the cat still hanging off her face and couldn’t get the cat off until they had tranquilized it so that it relaxed enough to loosen the jaws.
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