Man airlifted after fight with cat

Cleveland [TX] Advocate ^ | 5/6/11 | VANESA BRASHIER

[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.

[MarkL]

A friend had a really big male cat named Fang who was very territorial. He would attack any animal, including dogs who came into their lawn. There was a neighborhood German Sheppard who was attacked by Fang and needed nearly 100 stitches to close the wounds inflicted by the cat. The cat was put down after attacking and seriously wounding a child.

Mark

[ßuddaßudd]

I hope the cat is OK and the man gets charged for being stoopid.

[Ditter]

Very cute but you started out right, almost. Instead of cradling the cat in your arm let the cat sit on a table, With one hand, like you said. on the back of the cats head with a finger on each side of the jaw, you move the cats head from side to side to get it off balance. While the cat is off balance you squeeze your fingers and open the cats mouth and quickly shove the pill down the throat.

[NoGrayZone]

It's probably because our cats know it's over and they are going home.

The problem with us owners.....they DON'T want to go! It's just so weird how Mary know it's for her. When it was for the other 2 (now 1), she'd go over, smell it and not hide and freak out.

Thank goodness they don't have opposable thumbs.!

[onedoug]

Cats up.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

MEOW OUCH

[Fire_on_High]

We had a cat who developed brain problems after a reaction to a flea treatment. It was somewhat seizure-like, but instead of a typical grand mal seizure, he’d fly into an uncontrollable berserk rage out of nowhere, then a minute later be somewhat confused and sluggish but otherwise his normal intelligent, loving self.

I nearly lost an eye to him, got climbed and had punctures and tears from calf to scalp on that side, some of which took months to fully heal, and he sent another adult to the ER with her wrist opened to the bone.

Mind you, this wasn’t normal “angry cat”. I’ve dealt with that before. Even the vet agreed it was some sort of brain problem.

We had to put him to sleep over this...he was only 3 years old which made it all the sadder since he was normally the sweetest cat around but we had an elderly person on blood thinners around and since he would flip out with no provocation...just wasn’t safe. Something totally random would trigger it and he’d be berserk...a cough or sneeze, being bumped into, one of our female cats getting a little upset over getting a claw caught in a blanket.

[Nea Wood]

Things like that DO happen. A friend of mine was trapped inside the house by a snarling, vicious cat waiting right outside the door to attack her. My friend kept trying to escape, first via the front door, then the back door, but the cat kept moving, going from door to door so that my friend couldn’t get out!

[NoGrayZone]

This is a pic of the back of my computer chair. When they want attention they have NO problem letting you know, lol.

[Islander2]

What was this guy doing in a cat house with a knife?

[Peter from Rutland]

I believe it. Rule #1: never trust someone else’s cat(s). And yes cat scratch fever is real.

[null and void]

From “Games you can play with your pussy”? Do you have the How to give your cat a bath excerpt?

[Peter from Rutland]

I had a cat that would chase dogs. Otherwise he was very tame.

[Slings and Arrows]

If kitteh ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

[rickomatic]

We had a cat who developed brain problems after a reaction to a flea treatment. It was somewhat seizure-like, but instead of a typical grand mal seizure, he’d fly into an uncontrollable berserk rage out of nowhere, then a minute later be somewhat confused and sluggish but otherwise his normal intelligent, loving self.

We've got a cat that started doing the exact same thing several years back. Our vet said it was a reaction to fleas, not a flea treatment. She would like to sit on my lap at night while we watched tv. One night she had one of these siezures and flipped out while on my lap. By the time I could throw her on the floor she had scratched the hell out of both my hands and bit clear through one. I had to go to the ER for treatment that included a very high potency antibiotic IV treatment. Cat's mouths are dirty nasty things. The vet gave us some flea treatment that absolutey cured her in about a week. That cat now is 20 years old. Talk about 9 lives!

As a side note to an earlier poster, my son got cat scratch fever when he was in jr high. Some gland in his neck swelled up like a goiter and he had to have it drained several times and was on antibiotics for months before it finally went away.

[justiceseeker93]

Could the cat have been not entirely domesticated - perhaps part bobcat? There are some people who have bobcats as pets and manage to domesticate them to the point where they are tame. Wouldn’t recommend it, though.

[Slings and Arrows]

Could be, but I suspect it was a case of booze + stoopid + irritated cat = massive trauma.

[null and void]

I’m thinking more cougar.

They can be VERY dangerous...

[TheOldLady]

[ICE-FLYER]

Here is what any cat would get from me were it to do anything remotely stupid like attacking me or family...