PUSS-WHIPPED: $5 MILLION SUIT OVER 'CAT ATTACK'

NY Post ^ | September 2, 2007 | JANON FISHER

[Fawn]

I remember seeing a show once on a woman who got badly bitten on the hand by a desparate kitty, and was told by the vet to go the ER instead of just putting some bacitracin on it at home like her inclination. The ER doctors told her she would have lost her hand if she did that. She needed several surgeries to remove the infection.

see...that's the difference between cats and dogs. A dog would have just ripped the part off completely on first bite......the cat gives you time to save that part.

[GovernmentShrinker]

From the picture caption: SCRATCH FEVER: Adalberto DeSousa during his one-month hospital stay to recover from wounds he says were inflicted by a Persian cat inside a Village bodega. He is now suing the bodega owner.

He's full of it. Every bodega in the city has a cat (the owner's denial of this fact is to be expected, since it wouldn't do to have the health department officer show up brandishing a newspaper clipping in which the bodega owner is confessing to keeping a cat in the store). The cat at the bodega a couple of blocks from me is name "Robert" (pronounced "Rrrrrow-bear-t" -- this IS a bodega, after all). Robert is a tabby. No bodega in the city has a PERSIAN cat. First of all, they're useless at mouse-catching, having been bred to sit on velvet cushions and purr while their food is brought to them by their human servant, pre-killed and pre-cooked. And second of all, they cost a few bucks and no bodega owner is going to spend money to buy a cat when stray kittens are free.

Plaintiff is a liar. Case closed.

[ApplegateRanch]

You about have to be on death's door to get that long of a stay in a hospital these days.

I can easily believe the story of a month;'s stay.

When I worked in a county hospital in California, we had a female patient in isolation for 6 weeks from a cat scratch. It had infected, ('cat scratch fever' and then induced 'cellulitis') requiring a course of antibiotics...and, for some unknown reason, 100mg of Demerol every four hours.

Thanks to "patient rights", she refused all medication...except her Demerol fix.

Turned out she was a druggie, and the doc had ordered the Demerol more to keep her from going into withdrawals than for any real pain control needs.

She wasn't the only case of manipulation, Welsh acting, general goldbricking, and just plain mopery & dopery that resulted in inordinately long, publicly financed, inappropriate hospitalizations, though she is the most memorable.

[dragonblustar]

[Lazamataz]