When KITTENS attack...

[brooklynite]

Apparently a slow news day in Indiana...

SPEEDWAY, Ind. -- A 24-year-old man called police to report that a kitten attacked him on Thursday, investigators said.

...snip...

An officer said the man told him he grabbed the kitten "and tied to tie a string around the kitten's neck," prompting the kitten to bite him on the thumb.

The man showed the officer a puncture through the top and bottom of his thumb.

"Both punctures were minor, with little bleeding," part of the police report read.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/28124255/detail.html

Want to bet this is the kind of guy who hates Lawyers and their "nuisance lawsuits"?

[sakabatou]

1. "Ah, it bit me! Now I have to hang it till it dies!"

:puke:

[Wait Wut]

2. Hey, give the guy a break.

That happened to me 12 years ago when a friend said, "Can you watch her for me for a month while a tour?"

The little monster bit right through my finger.

I still have her. She's still psychotic. But, she doesn't bite me anymore. Everyone else, yes. Not me.

Her name is Brigit, but she's called Little Bear. Smallest cat I've ever had with the biggest attitude. A calico, of course. Never called the cops on her, though. Thought of calling SWAT.

[alstephenson]

4. I've got me a psycho calico, too.

Rescue cat. We've had her for years now but she's still a little psychotic. She must have had a tough life so we are tolerant of her issues.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. I think it's a calico thing...

My little calico Bella is a bit...er...challenged...as well.

[Wait Wut]

10. "Challenged"

What a nice way to say sociopathic.

[kestrel91316]

11. Take it from one with decades of on the job experience. It is, indeed,

a calico thing. Tricolors (calicos and tortoiseshells) are notoriously, ahem, "fractious".

Not all of them, of course, some are quite nice. But the majority bear close watching when handling.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Bella is a doll...when she wants to be, on her terms. Which is usually

at 3 AM when she's walking all over the bed and breathing in my face. Her sister Izzie (an orange tabby) is one of the cuddliest, neediest cats every born. Their big brother, Kittimus Prime (black tabby) is just a "good boy". Never causes trouble.

[alstephenson]

21. Ha! My calico's name is Bella, too.

[Wait Wut]

9. I dunno.

I've had three calicos and my sister has had two. They've all been nuts. Chances are, yours was a rescue because she killed her human family and was threatening the government.

Was reading an article to the husband about calicos. When it got to the part where it said, "Calicos are the redheads of the cat world" he lost it and said, "I can see that!". I'm a redhead. I wasn't sure whether to throw an ashtray at him or Brigit.

[alstephenson]

22. That's hilarious.

[1monster]

15. I was checking on a neighbor's cat several years back while they were on vacation.

He was lying on the couch when I came in to feed him, and stopped to pet him and love on him. The cat was purring up a storm when, with no warning and quick as lightning, he sunk his teeth up to the gums into my wrist. I had four very deep puncture wounds in my wrist. Three of the punctures heal up, leaving no evidence, but I still have a shadowy scar from one.

When I told my neighbor about it on a call, she thought I'd been over reacting for going to the doctors (they reported it to animal control which opened a whole new can of worms), until she got home a week later and saw the bites.

Cats do give "love bites" which are truly bites of affection, but this was something else altogether. Yet the cat would still wrap himself around my ankles when I came to feed him. (I never petted him again though: Once bitten, twice shy!)

I'm told the cat is an incredible ratter, killing a rat with one instant bite. Having experienced that bite, I believe it.

[provis99]

16. girl cats are just nastier than boy cats.

I've got two boys, and one girl. the boys love to be cuddled, but the girl shrieks and hisses, and bites if she is held.

[Ikonoklast]

17. Calling a SWAT team would be pointless.

Against a psycho kitty?

No chance.



"Your men are already dead."

[comtec]

20. I miss my little girl

got her when i was 9?
she was gray with calico patches, white on her tail ear and paws.
She had the loudest purr i've ever heard from a cat.
she was a semi rescue and semi wild.
My mom's best friend has a farm, and she was one of the kittens the resident mama cat has every year.
Not directly wild since they fed the cats, but otherwise they lived on mice, ran away, or met cars head on =<. they live on the delta East of the SF Bay area.[br />
she died maybe 10 years ago at 16 meeting the wrong end of a car, as mom tells it.
I wish i could have taken her with me, but she spent most of her life at mom's place.
She was so loving, a real lap cat, but also a mouser.

our old cat (died at 21) seems to have passed on how to kill gophers, cuz i came home one day and she was licking something on her paw. she saw me, flicked it aside and pranced to me as if to say "oh hi master".
I went to see what she tossed and it was what was left of a mole.

I pet her like the good girl she was, and laugh still at the memory :)

[joeybee12]

3. Tied a string around its neck?

Idiot.

[REP]

5. First, the kitten was defending her/himself from an idiot; second, this is news?

I thought the Silly Season was August.

[hifiguy]

6. Most likely the kitten is judgment proof

and I think there's grounds for a plea of kitty self-defense.

[kestrel91316]

12. This situation is what we call, in veterinary parlance, a "provoked attack".

IOW, the guy asked for it.

A string around its neck??? WTF??? He had to be drunk.

[nebenaube]

7. I had a psycho tom cat once...

Three cop cars responded to the neighbors house and we picked him up from the pound two days later...

[damntexdem]

14. A young kitten called the catcops today to report being attacked by a 24-year-old man.

The man attempted to bind the kitten around the neck with a ribbon. The kitten successfully fought the man off with a bite to the thumb. "The resulting punctures were effective in driving the man off, although they were unfortunately insufficient to adequately punish the miscreant," part of the catcop report read.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. Cat bites often get infected.

We can only hope.

[DainBramaged]

18. The 12 odd ferals I feed bite me regularly, in appreciation.

Love bites. I don't complain......