Posted on 06/09/2017 8:23:51 PM PDT by digger48
You weren’t wrong to be concerned. There have been a number of incidents in the modern era where “housecats” have attacked people they thought were existential threats. Apparently housecats *do* have a pretty good idea where human jugular veins and carotid arteries are; this seems to be a species memory for them. Apparently a common strategy for felis catus when they decide they need to go for broke against a human is to trip or hamstring the human to get them down on their level and then rip out the human’s blood vessels in the neck, a strategy distinctly unlike their normal hunting practices. Their plan B is apparently to swarm up the human and attempt the same neck damage. Cats will also attempt to blind existential threats by deliberately targeting the eyes and will sometimes do that first then wreck said blood vessels once the target is helpless.
An angry cat that thinks he or she has nothing to lose and has shifted to kill mode is one of the scariest things on the planet.
Forgot to mention - years ago I read a news article about a family who went on an evening out and came back to find their living room floor occupied by one very dead male corpse, lots of blood... and the family cat sitting on the torso of the dead guy, purring and looking very satisfied with herself.
Apparently the deceased was wanted in a series of burglaries in the area and had chosen this family’s house as his latest target. As best the police were able to reconstruct, the burglar broke in through a window and was proceeding through the living room when the cat attacked. The cat tripped him, scratched up one of his eyes, ripped out his carotid and jugular *then climbed up on top of him once he was incapacitated and watched him bleed out and die.* The last thing that criminal saw was a very angry cat waiting for him to cease being.
The Cravenwood gang!
Back in the ‘40s, a deacon in my dad’s church owned a jewelry store. His only security was two enormous Persian cats (not declawed), and they were brutal if there was a problem.
> ... he cat tripped him, scratched up one of his eyes, ripped out his carotid and jugular *then climbed ...
Wow Spktyr,
Good description of events.
That’s almost exactly the way my mom’s cat took out the doberman.
Jumped in the dog’s head, held on with the teeth and front claws then with the hind claws gouged out the eyes and then bit into the jugular and held on until he bled out.
Jack
Thought I heard that name before.
This Has Turned into a
Really Spookitty thread.
Go, Binky!!!
“I’m just here for the typos”
LOL! Then most any thead would do.
I joke with customers about how their cat is just waiting to gouge my eyes out.. At that job I had my plan after a bit, did everything to not provoke but just in case a 12” adjustable wrench was easier and faster to swing than an 18” pipe wrench.. In hindsight it was pretty cool how he made it known that it was HIS crawl space, not mine, and I was NOT welcome. Cats are ok by me, just not my choice for pet.
Said blind cat probably has a better than normal keen sense of smell (or other senses), and she knew the incoming guy was not ‘family’.
I had three blind cats at one time, and they did exceptionally well as long as I didn’t rearrange the furniture.
Agreed that kitties are sinister.
If I thought about it I would never sleep well ever again. Kitties are under my roof.
Total denial here: Kitties are still my best friends.
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I Am warning you it is addicting.
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