Posted on 06/03/2010 7:57:28 AM PDT by Chet 99
PEARLAND, Texas – A Houston-area woman is recovering after two large pit bulls attacked her outside her home, police said.
Cherry Woods, 39, claims her cat, Lima, saved her from the dogs by scratching and hissing at the animals. According to the Pearland police report, the attack happened May 21 just before 8 a.m.
Woods claims she was walking back to her home in the 2300 block of Short Springs Court in Pearland when she saw the dogs from a distance. When they started charging towards her, she tried to fight them off, but they knocked her down several times.
Her husband, Harold Woods, said he was inside the home when he heard her screams. He unsuccessfully tried to separate the dogs from his wife, he said.
That’s when the couple’s cat, Lima, jumped into the fray. According to Woods, the feline clawed and hissed at the dogs and distracted them.
"Our cat came out of the bushes and scratched one of the dogs, and started hissing at it," he said. "They both turned their attention to the cat. I was able to grab my wife and pull her inside the house."
This was out of character for Lima.
"She’s the most reclusive, timid animal I’ve ever seen," Harold Woods said.
But not on that day.
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Good kitty!
bttt
I can believe it.
Must’ve been raining cats and dogs yesterday
An angry cat is a force to be reckoned with. It it were the same weight as the Pit Bulls it'd have killed them both in short order.
A cat can do a nasty job on a dog’s nose in short order.
A furball of fury.
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
Too bad these cute, harmless, loveable pitbulls had such a bad owner ... /sarcasm
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I think it’s telling that the cat had to do what the husband could not. If I had been the woman’s husband, the dogs would have met up with my 9mm.
Surely we are reading something wrong here. Those friendly, kind, lovable, gentle, furry, little pit bulls would never be roaming the neighborhood in packs attacking people at random.
Was this woman wearing bacon scented perfume again? Or maybe she tormented them from a distance. Perhaps by daring to own a cat.
Have you noticed how similar pit bulls are to moslems? Same pack behavior, same intolerance, same unpredictable and violent behavior. And unfortunately, in the long run, the same solution to the problem.
My eldest cat did the same when a neighbor’s pit bull got into my yard.
"There's a jungle cat in the bathroom!"
SnakeDoc
I don’t understand why anyone in Texas needs a cat to protect her from pit bulls. She should have been carrying and blown the two of them away. Only is “progressive” states like Massghanistan does one need to “hiss and piss” to frighten off pit bulls and other vermin such as politicians. Come to think of it, last election cycle my cat did scare off some jerk trying to deliver campaign literature from Niki “Tax on Gas and Everyhting Else” Tsongas. I guess the reason the politicians here don’t want us to have weapons of any kind including, I kid you not, “shod feet”, is because we might begin to party like it’s 1773 on them.
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