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. A call for help Monday took animal control officer John Pettit to the home of Melissa Breva, Gutschenritter said. Breva told Pettit she had captured two cats in a bedroom.
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"She said the cats had gotten into the house when the front door was open," Gutschenritter said, then attacked two women who were visiting Breva.
One, Wendy Holliday, suffered scratches, the chief said, and she was bitten on both ankles, both knees and on her left calf.
"She told the officer it happened when the two cats entered the residence and attacked her for no reason," Gutschenritter said.
The other woman, Rebecca Cheever, was bitten on the right calf.
After talking to the women, Pettit went to his truck for snares — his "cat catchers."
Then he heard screaming from inside the house.
"When he ran back, he saw a young male with blood over his face," Gutschenritter said.
The cats had attacked a boy who had opened the bedroom door.
"He was bitten on his forehead, nose, left ear and right cheek," the chief said.
After some first aid from Pettit, the three were taken to Great Plains Regional Medical Center for more treatment.
When investigator John Stadler arrived and opened the bedroom door, "he saw a gray and white cat baring its teeth in attack mode," Gutschenritter said. "He shut the bedroom door and returned to his car for a dart gun."
Both cats were shot, tranquilized and taken to the animal shelter, where they were euthanized.
The bodies were sent to Lincoln for rabies checks, Gutschenritter said.
Authorities want to find out who owned the cats.
Under city ordinance, cats may run free if they don't become nuisances.
"I'm on the animal commission, and we've never seen anything like this," Gutschenritter said. "We have dealt with dog bites, but we've never had one with a cat."
WOW this is why I own a dog! lol : ) ↓
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| Name: lindalu | Date: Mar 20th, 2007 1:47 AM |
| MEOW!!! Now we have to watch for the kittys! The raskely little devils! I do have to say this post take the prize for originality. ↑ |
| Name: T-rabbit | Date: Mar 20th, 2007 8:15 AM |
What can I say I try.
Killer cat on the loose.
The only animal that I am afraid of. They are so horrible to take out of a cage. A dog will bite and let go but a cat gets them claws in you plus the teeth. Pulling one of these things off your arm is no picnic in the park. ↑ |
| Name: Dawn C. | Date: Mar 20th, 2007 9:35 AM |
| Something like this happened to my M-I-L!! She found a kitten on the side of the road and took it home...it was maybe 4-5 wks. old. It never was a very friendly cat but about a year later out of the blue it ATTACKED her! That damn thing latched itself on to her arm w/it's teeth AND all 4 sets of claws! It took two people to pry the cat off her. Everybody got really torn up! At final count there were over 50 stitches between the three of them. My M-I-L and one other almost ended up in the hospital because the 1st round of antibiotics didn't work. Give me a dog any day!!! ↑ |
| Name: .atomic snowflake | Date: Mar 20th, 2007 11:56 AM |
| Poor kitties :-( They'd probably been abused. Cats don't normally attack people unless they're under extreme stress! ↑ |
| Name: cat lover | Date: Jun 17th, 2008 5:12 PM |
A feral or semi- feral cat, if it feels in anyway threatened it will lash out. Some have no warning but other will growl and express their fear and aggression through body language.
Cats will think about 'flight' or 'fight' as the situation occurs and if it feels its only way of surrival is to fight, it will!
Like all animals (including humans) a cats main aim in life is to carry on its genes and surrival of the fittest is essential.
No body should dislike cats because of situations like the attacking cats, they are amaing creatures who have complex minds.
A domestic cat, if giving the TLC it requires will make a loving and loyal pet.
Unfortunatly the people who did get hurt by the cats were very unfortunate and the chances they are going to have a fear of cats for the rest of their lives is almost certain; which is a shame.
I work in a cattery and we see a very, very wide range of personalitys and behaviour problems with cats; most of them which are easily fixed by getting in a cats frame of mind.
When it comes to feral cats, we should try and help the population by neutering cats and therefore reducing the cat population and also the risk of dieses (Fiv and FeLv) in our domestic pets!!
All the best
The Cat lover x ↑ |
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