'Screaming' Rabid Cat Attacks 15 In Neighborhood

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:40:25 -0600, Victor Martinez
wrote:

CatNipped wrote:
LOL! Yeah, right - tell that to Roman and Toby (Toby was the one who was
standing on the back rest of my sofa, hugging the wall, and screaming "Get
her away from me, get her away from me!" ;

Didn't she purr when I pet her?

Sounds like Bandit just knows a catslave when she meets one.

Reminds me of a visit I made to my brother years ago. I was home on
leave and visiting my parents in California. As I was getting ready to
go up to Oregon to stay a few days with my brother Mom told me that he
said he had a house cat, but that when she and Dad stayed for a few
days they never saw the cat. She was amazed when I told her that the
second morning I was there I woke in the morning with the cat asleep
at the foot of the bed.
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CatNipped wrote:
LOL! Yeah, right - tell that to Roman and Toby (Toby was the one who was
standing on the back rest of my sofa, hugging the wall, and screaming
"Get her away from me, get her away from me!" ;

Didn't she purr when I pet her?

That's right, she did! You are among the three people (including me) whom
she hasn't attacked on sight.

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"-L." wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
"The cat came up from behind us and was screaming," cat attack victim
Adam
Maul said. "I mean I've never heard a cat scream so loud. The cat ran out
from underneath the car and bit me in my ankle."

Not to make light of this, but that's Bandit's "normal" behavior -
seriously!

It's also normal scared cat behavior. I need to read to read the
article but I will bet this cat isn't rabid.
-L.

I know, but I can't tell if Bandit does this out of fear or not, though,
because she has *never* taken the chance to escape over the chance to attack
(IOW, with her it's not 'fight or flight', it's 'fight and fight some
more'!).

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NMR wrote:
http://www.local6.com/news/5890364/detail.html

Florida, figures.

When I took in a stray, the very first thing I did was have the young,
pregnant lady checked for rabies and various feline diseases,
surprisingly inexpensive I found.

I guess I am still angry at Florida messing up our presidential
election. Manipulating the election process by abusing the US Supreme
Court (Scalia's logic was unusually contradictory within even his own
very conservative framework) saddens and slightly terrifies me. The
Republican woman, Harris?, in charge of the voting would not allow a
recount. And the Democrats down there did not help by having a truly
confusing ballot. Apparently the woman in charge, LePore?, could not
design a simple ballot but came up with a butterfly ballot all on her
own initiative, completely untested.

This all may be a coincidence but often when I read about people doing
things which show a lack of education or intermediate reasoning skills,
Florida figures prominently.

wrote:
NMR wrote:
http://www.local6.com/news/5890364/detail.html

Florida, figures.

When I took in a stray, the very first thing I did was have the young,
pregnant lady checked for rabies and various feline diseases,
surprisingly inexpensive I found.

I did not have the lady checked for rabies. That apparently can only
be done with an autopsy of the brain tissue. Also it would be unlikely
that tests for rabies would be done since the disease is supposedly
unknown in cats in USA - although the township next to mine has had two
cats with rabies. So there goes that generalization.

wrote:

When I took in a stray, the very first thing I did was have the young,
pregnant lady checked for rabies

Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to analyze the brain tissue of
a dead animal.

I guess I am still angry at Florida messing up our presidential
election. Manipulating the election process by abusing the US Supreme
Court (Scalia's logic was unusually contradictory within even his own
very conservative framework) saddens and slightly terrifies me. The
Republican woman, Harris?, in charge of the voting would not allow a
recount. And the Democrats down there did not help by having a truly
confusing ballot.

And don't forget all those people who were turned away due to Voting
While Black.

This all may be a coincidence but often when I read about people doing
things which show a lack of education or intermediate reasoning skills,
Florida figures prominently.

And for some reason that I can't fathom, everyone in my family moved
there. We're all from Massachusetts, but none of us liked the weather.
I liked the culture of Boston, though, and the San Francisco area offers
a similar culture, but with much better weather. So I'm here, and they're
there, go figure. I'll be in your neck of the woods soon, visiting them.

Joyce

CatNipped wrote:
I know, but I can't tell if Bandit does this out of fear or not, though,
because she has *never* taken the chance to escape over the chance to attack
(IOW, with her it's not 'fight or flight', it's 'fight and fight some
more'!).

Does she have a history of abuse? (Of course I mean prior to you....?)
-L.

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CatNipped wrote:
I know, but I can't tell if Bandit does this out of fear or not, though,
because she has *never* taken the chance to escape over the chance to
attack
(IOW, with her it's not 'fight or flight', it's 'fight and fight some
more'!).

Does she have a history of abuse? (Of course I mean prior to you....?)
-L.

No, but she is the cat I referred to in other posts that I had declawed 15
year ago - before I knew what declawing involved. She turned from a sweet,
lovable kitten into a screaming, biting terror practically overnight. I
endure the bites down to the bone with nary a cross word and accept it as
punishment for what I did (and still it will never be enough to make up for
what I did to her!) I'm just lucky she never had litterbox problems because
of it - but if that changes and she does, I'll also clean up her pee without
complaint. Needless to say she's always been an indoors only cat. We built
a ramp up to my bed and other places because I know she must suffer
arthritis - and I give her a daily massage to help relieve the pain she must
be in constantly. All this because I didn't bother to research the
procedure before I allowed the vet to do it (my landlord at the time said
she had to be declawed in order to live there, but had I known then what I
know now I would have moved in a New York second)! [Can you tell how much
I beat myself up daily for this horrendous act?]

Hugs,

CatNipped

CatNipped wrote:

No, but she is the cat I referred to in other posts that I had declawed 15
year ago - before I knew what declawing involved. She turned from a sweet,
lovable kitten into a screaming, biting terror practically overnight. I
endure the bites down to the bone with nary a cross word and accept it as
punishment for what I did (and still it will never be enough to make up for
what I did to her!) I'm just lucky she never had litterbox problems because
of it - but if that changes and she does, I'll also clean up her pee without
complaint. Needless to say she's always been an indoors only cat. We built
a ramp up to my bed and other places because I know she must suffer
arthritis - and I give her a daily massage to help relieve the pain she must
be in constantly. All this because I didn't bother to research the
procedure before I allowed the vet to do it (my landlord at the time said
she had to be declawed in order to live there, but had I known then what I
know now I would have moved in a New York second)! [Can you tell how much
I beat myself up daily for this horrendous act?]

Don't beat yourself up - you didn't know! I didn't know how bad it was
until I worked for a vet. It does explain her behavior, though, and
her story is, sadly, *really* common in declawed cats.

How many does there have to be like her before vets accept that
declawing *causes* behavioral problems?!? It just makes me sick!!!!
-L.

"-L." wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:

No, but she is the cat I referred to in other posts that I had declawed
15
year ago - before I knew what declawing involved. She turned from a
sweet,
lovable kitten into a screaming, biting terror practically overnight. I
endure the bites down to the bone with nary a cross word and accept it as
punishment for what I did (and still it will never be enough to make up
for
what I did to her!) I'm just lucky she never had litterbox problems
because
of it - but if that changes and she does, I'll also clean up her pee
without
complaint. Needless to say she's always been an indoors only cat. We
built
a ramp up to my bed and other places because I know she must suffer
arthritis - and I give her a daily massage to help relieve the pain she
must
be in constantly. All this because I didn't bother to research the
procedure before I allowed the vet to do it (my landlord at the time said
she had to be declawed in order to live there, but had I known then what
I
know now I would have moved in a New York second)! [Can you tell how
much
I beat myself up daily for this horrendous act?]

Don't beat yourself up - you didn't know! I didn't know how bad it was
until I worked for a vet. It does explain her behavior, though, and
her story is, sadly, *really* common in declawed cats.

How many does there have to be like her before vets accept that
declawing *causes* behavioral problems?!? It just makes me sick!!!!
-L.

Yeah, me too. What made me really upset with my friend recently is that I
know what I've gone through every day for 15 years because of crazy love for
this cat (just today I got bitten while I was giving her a massage - I
routinely get a tetanus shot every 7 years because of her) - and I know my
friend won't put up with that. So they'll get dropped off at the SPCA (*if*
they're lucky and not just dumped somewhere). And at the SPCA they'll
legally have to label them as biters and probably won't even try to rehome
them before they're euthed! *SIGH*

Hugs,

CatNipped