It happened again. A cat trapped a couple in a bathroom.

[Are_grits_groceries]

They called 911.
http://www.wesh.com/news/aggressive-cat-traps-couple-in-their-bedroom/26831992#!bbzuqB

Who are these people? A cat is gonna cat.

[tammywammy]

1. That's why my kitties get a steady influx of treats.

I wonder what made this cat so aggressive? Maybe it's sick.

[Cleita]

12. Sick is a possibility but it could also be genes.

I have an aggressive cat. I've gone to the emergency room three time during his lifetime and was quarantined once with him for rabies. Kitty didn't have rabies and had his shots but sheriffs insisted because of his history. I use a variety of methods to keep him from attacking me, but I'm always wary. Fortunately, in his old age he's mellowing out.

I really don't know what can be done about these kitties. Several vets told me to put him down, but I just couldn't take his life for that.

[tammywammy]

17. Yeah, just their natural behavior.

I've never had an aggressive cat. I don't know what I'd do if I adopted one either.

I have two seniors (13 & 12) and I rescued a kitten last June. After a few days apart the the other two have accepted him. The kitten loves the older female most and tries to play with her (well he tried to jump on her), she wants no part in that. Even when she's hissing at him or swiping, she doesn't have her claws out.

[wickerwoman]

21. Could be territorial or protective...

I had a female friend with a male cat who would get quite aggressive with her gentleman callers. The cat once trapped a guy in the bathtub for over an hour hissing and trying to bite him until she came back from the shops and locked the cat in another room so he could get out.

I wouldn't try my luck against a seriously riled up strange kitty if I could avoid it.

[tammywammy]

22. I wouldn't either.

At least when I kinda push kitty away from old lady cat neither of them have their claws out.

[marble falls]

2. Next time they need to rescue a pound cat.

[Ms. Toad]

4. This one may well have been a pound cat.

We had a Russian blue that was.

[marble falls]

24. And so was my crazy Russian Blue, but my point was over bred cats (or dogs) tend to be ....

more prone to crazy. The average pound cat isn't pure bred and isn't so prone to crazy. Maybe its time to choose temperament over breed.

[hobbit709]

3. What is available in large quantities in a bathroom?

What do cats hate?

Water!

[Ms. Toad]

7. You haven't met our cats.

The one that mostly doesn't want to be touched was rolling around in the laundry tub so I could rub his belly last night. He regularly plops him self down in the sink while I am brushing my teeth in the morning - and for the first time ever with cats (which we've had for nearly all of our 33+ years together) we have to keep the lid down on the toilet because otherwise the cats will go play in it.

Here's how much he hates water. The breadboard is an ineffective attempt to keep him out of the fish tank. It now has a cover, which he still managed to figure out how to fish through - so now the breadboard is on top of the cover.

[hobbit709]

9. A large glass of water thrown in a cat's face will make him back off.

My wife had a cat that like to take baths with her. He still didn't like to be squirted with water.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Probably,

There are any number of videos floating around with cats deliberately immersing their heads in the water stream from the tap. So while it might back off if it came out of the blue, it sill might not be the weapon you imagine against cats who actually like water.

[Feron]

13. Or at least a towel..

With two people it should be a fairly simple operation. Throw towel on cat, one holds the cat down by the scruff and hindquarters, and the other person gets the cat carrier. Put cat in carrier and bring to vet.

My dad and I contained a loose feral cat* in the house with a broom, blanket, and a cat carrier. Poor cat was scared to death, but there were no injuries and animal control picked him up.

*it came in through the cat door and the door locked behind him trapping him in the house.

I have a healthy respect for cats, but I can't imagine cowering from one.

[ieoeja]

18. Bedroom. OP miswrote the title.

Of course, a bedroom has blankets. So there is that solution for getting out of the room.

[greytdemocrat]

5. Kats are evil!!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. This happened last summer, right after the Oregon attack.

Since they didn't have her up to date on shots, they are lucky she wasn't rabid.

[Ms. Toad]

8. The cat is a indoor cat,

And current recommendations are for far fewer vaccinations for at least indoor cats because of the risk of developing sarcoma at the injection site. As an indoor cat, the risk of rabies is virtually zero.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. My cat is an indoor cat. She often slips outdoors...lured by the call of nature.

As such, risk of rabies is virtually zero be damned, she gets her vax every 2 years
.

Also, the wild has been known to come indoors at times. No cat is hermetically sealed in a house. Rabies treatments are no joke and incredibly painful. I'll take the ounce of prevention. They were taking a huge risk.

[Ms. Toad]

14. You may be putting your cat at more risk than is necessary.

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vmth/small_animal/internal_medicine/newsletters/vaccination_protocols.cfm

Rabies is 3 years, not 2, and should be given in the leg so that if sarcoma develops the leg can be amputated. Vaccine induced sarcoma is no joke, either. It is universally fatal if it develops in the traditional location for vaccination.

They don't have to be hermetically sealed - acquiring rabies requires more than what can be tracked in on one's feet/clothing/etc.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I'm going to trust in my vet and continue to do the right thing.

*knock wood* never lost a cat to cancer and would hate to lose one to rabies. A needle stick every 24 months. The vet's advice it is.

[Ms. Toad]

23. Suit yourself.

The risk of this particular sarcoma is higher than the risk of rabies, particularly if your cat is primarily an indoor cat with a very low risk of exposure to rabies.

I know people who have lost cats to vaccine induced cancer. I don't know anyone who has lost a cat to rabies - and we live in a county where rehabilitation of orphaned infant raccoons is prohibited because rabies is present in the wild. The incidence of rabies in all domestic animals, not just cats, is 4-500 cases/year in the US. http://www.americanhumane.org/animals/adoption-pet-care/caring-for-your-pet/rabies-facts-tips.html (Note: this site also says every 3 years for rabies vaccinations, not 2). The incidence of vaccine induced sarcoma in cats only is four-5 times the risk of rabies in all domestic animals, at around 2000 cases a year in the US. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299519/

If you are going to continue to expose your cat to 50% more risk than is necessary to prevent rabies, please at least consider insisting that the vet vaccinate in the hind leg. (I'm betting that if your vet is behind the times enough to still be recommending 2x a year, that s/he is also still vaccinating near the scruff of the neck, which makes it impossible to survive the tumor that would develop.)

[NutmegYankee]

15. As a cat owner, I have to say, what whimps.

Claiming to be locked in a room by a creature 1/10 to 1/20th your size.

[Atman]

16. My thought exactly. Open the door, kick it in the head.

Seriously. I'm a cat owner, I love cats, but no way in hell would a cat trap me anywhere. I might get a scratch or two, but one way or another I'm takin' 'er down! Wimps.

[KamaAina]

20. Florida Cat!

DELAND, Fla. —A DeLand couple called 911 Saturday night after their aggressive cat held them hostage in their bedroom.