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Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_fe_st/when_cats_attack;_ylt=AsBjgmFKgjXsN40JCrBkVjHMWM0F

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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday.

I guess their career really went down hill after Stray Cat Strut, but I never thought it would come to this. I guess, such is the life of an 80s pop band.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

That's kind of bizzare behavior. Poor cats. And poor people, but at least they get to just have huge painful shots instead of being euthanized and getting their skulls cut open. [Frown]

Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :

Kitties! [Frown]

I wonder what the heck caused that?!

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

Misused apostrophes. There has to be a method for the dying of the kittens, right?

Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :

When I lived in Idaho, we had lots of cats living in our barn, and occasionally strays would come around too. There was one white cat with a gray splotch on his head that we named Leopold that started eating with our herd, but never let us come near.

One December night we opened our back door, IIRC to air out the kitchen because we'd burned something, and Leopold just bee-bopped right into the house. As soon as I saw him in the family room, I knew we were in trouble, and as soon as he saw me he went berzerk. The back door was still open, but he ran forward and started running around and hopping over things. He climbed up the Christmas tree, jumped over to the curtains, knocking down the rod in the process, attacked my 16 year old daughter and created all sorts of havoc. We opened every door and every window trying to chase him out.

He was only inside for about 4-5 minutes, but when we finally got him outside, the place looked like a cyclone hit it. There were broken ornaments and lights strung all over from the tree, the curtains from two different windows were ripped, several pictures were knocked off the walls (he literally jumped from frame to frame), and my daughter was bleeding profusely from her left hand.

We laugh about it now (it was about 8 years ago), but it was pretty traumatic at the time.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

The headline makes me laugh. I can't help it.

Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :

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Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
That's kind of bizzare behavior. Poor cats. And poor people, but at least they get to just have huge painful shots instead of being euthanized and getting their skulls cut open.

Hmphh. My foot was bit by a cat last year. I spent two months with it elevated, while they shot me full of antibiotics, bum, intraveneous, and also orally. It still aches, and there are still parts of my foot that don't look so good.

Those poor people. [Frown]

I sympathize.

The cat, on the other hand, went to her eternal reward in kitty heaven where she can bite with impunity.

It was really very sad. And frightening.

*sigh*