Posted on 05/09/2011 9:17:54 AM PDT by Huntress
A Cleveland man was attacked by a housecat Friday afternoon and the man's injuries are so severe that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
The altercation between the man and the animal occurred at a home on CR 3182 a few miles south of Cleveland in Liberty County.
At some point during the attack, the man and the cat reportedly were injured by a knife the man was holding. The man was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center before being transported to Houston.
Game wardens Danny Diaz and Adam Broll captured the cat. It was taken to Big Thicket Animal Hospital for examination.
The man's identity is unknown at this time.
Rachel Corrie got into a fight with a CAT and the CAT won! ;-D
We should send you to D.C. Maybe you can persuade the marxist/barbarian/animal/fruitcake to leave.
whatsamatter? cat got your tongue?
The alter-CAT-ion? Bwahahahahahaha!
Life imitates art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sAF8gMN9c0
Must have been a long tail cat and he stepped its tail.
That’s pretty serious right there.
was this a bayonet charge?
Is that cat foo fighting?
Well, my late wife had a Doohickey Long-haired Box Pooper SomethingOrOther that positively would go absolutely bat doody just about once a month.
The vet said it was a result of psycho problems created by in-breeding to get the particular breed that it was.
But that cat was able to rip the heavy drapes off the wall of our quarters, these were Army-issue drapes, and totally shred them.
If I picked the cat up to put it in it's cage, I used welding gloves and the demon spawn still bit through them.
Our vet refused to treat the cat.
After my wife's death, I attempted to give the cat to a good home, but every one seemed to sense the evil in that thing.
I finally had it put to sleep by the vet, and he was glad to do so, having been mauled a few times my it.
I, myself, have no particular use for house cats.
OXYMORON ALERT!
It was an alligator until they clipped its tail and painted stripes on it.
I used to “cat sit” a bachelor-friend’s cat while he was away. The cat had the bachelor all to himself until a woman entered the picture. She was (and presumably still is) a very nice person; I can’t imagine her harming the cat. Yet, after that the cat hissed, spat and was generally hostile to any female that entered my friend’s house, even females the cat knew prior to the entry into his life of the dreaded girlfriend.
“Rachel Corrie got into a fight with a CAT and the CAT won! ;-D”
Makes sense why the man was airlifted to the hospital. He was pancaked by the cat!
Hey, I don’t blame the cat. Stupid human tricks are the cause of most animal attacks.
Amen.
LOL
I actually had to do this for a cat dying of cancer.
Wrapped her up in a towel, tight as swaddling and no one got hurt.
Cat didn’t make it but then again who cares?
Funny thing is the cat was cremated and its remains are in a real nice box.
The cat we got to replace the dead cat loves to sit on the box with the ashes of the dead kitty.
I’m always amazed at how vets can do it so effortlessly.
TeaPartyReveler, I thought the same thing until my best friend called me one day and said she’d been attacked by her brother’s cat and that she was recovering at her mother’s house. To be honest, I thought she was..well..full of it, and that she was being a bit of a sissy.
So I went over to her mother’s house, and guess what I saw? She had be shredded to ribbons! Her legs were a mess, her face was a mess, and her left breast was so badly mauled that it bears the scars of that attack to this day.
She had been cat sitting for her brother, as she’d done MANY times in the past. The animals had both known her since kittenhood and had never displayed this type of aggression. The attack came in the middle of the night while she was asleep. She managed to fight it off long enough to get to the bathroom and hide. Fortunately, her brother’s apartment had a phone in the bathroom (this was in the days before cell phones), and she called her other brother to rescue her.
Her brother came and when he saw her, called an ambulance. The bedroom looked like a murder had taken place in it, as the bedsheets were heavily stained with blood (they took pictures). Animal control was called and both cats were taken to their vet (only one of the cats had attacked her).
The ER cleaned and dressed the wounds, the cats’ vet declared that both cats were healthy, and my friend went home to Mom for a few days. The cats’ owner chose not to put the attacking cat down (I would have), and she never set foot in his apartment again until the beast was dead.
I tell you...I’d never seen anything like it — had never HEARD of anything like it! — and felt terrible that I thought she’d been BSing me.
I don’t know why these cats freak out like they do...I’ve had cats all my life and none of them have ever done so, but whenever I hear of a story like this, I remember what happened to my friend. I still shake my head in disbelief when I think of it.
Regards,
PS: She also got what I guess was cat scratch fever...she ran a very high temperature for days afterwards, and swelled up like a balloon wherever the cat had scratched her.
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