Posted on 08/28/2016 1:43:05 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Nobody puts baby in a corner!
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good kitty
Cats can be pretty vicious if threatened...I picked up a wild kitten once, for about a half second, bloody from elbow down in a flash. Dropped it in a hurry...
When I was in Baytown TX, outside Houston, someone had a German Shepherd that would roam the neighborhood, chase cats, leave land mines in our yards, bark half the night, just a general nuisance.
SO I was sitting on the porch one day reading a book, my cat curled up sleeping against my leg when this dog walked down the sidewalk. He got to our yard, walked up the walkway toward the porch, cat just watched. Dog stopped and stiffened, half growled, cat just watched. Dog took a couple more stiff leg steps, cat stood up, arched hisw back, hair stood up, and just watched. Dog was 6 feet away. Dog growled and took another step, cat jumped on his nose. The fight lasted about 3 seconds, dog ran back down the sidewalk leaving a bloody trail. Nose shredded...
A few days later the dog walked down the sidewalk. Cat again sleeping on the porch, I was reading a book again. (every day thing) Dog got to the corner of our yard, walked across the street, continued down that side of the street. He never came close to our yard again.
That was the only time I ever saw that cat get aggressive. My niece was about 2 or 2½ years old. She would chase the cat...ok wait a minute...we had a large living room, 30 feet long I think, a hallway beside it about 25 feet long, stairs going up to second floor on one side of the stairs, door on each end of the hallway into the living room.
OK, so the kid would chase the cat around this area, through the living room, down the hall, back through the living room. Over and over. couldn’t stop her, she just loved playing with the cat. So the cat would run, finally after a few minutes he would get tired of it, and always just as he turned the corner from hall back into living room, he would stop, turn around and jump in the middle of her chest, knock her down every time. She would giggle like it was the most fun she’d had all day, get up and chase the cat some more. The cat never left a scratch. Not one, ever. Kid loved it, did it almost daily. I watched that cat knock her down dozens of times, she always giggled and laughed like it was great fun, got up and chased the cat some more...The only place the cat could find she could not reach was on top of a 6 foot high cabinet in the hall. That was his favorite place to nap. Any time he came down, kid in her terrible twos was on the prowl...
My pitador had a confrontation with a kitty I had at the time when he was still a puppy. He’d been bothering her for a while. Then I came home one day and discovered him with a gash in his nose about half an inch long and an eighth of an inch deep. He got no sympathy. I just told him he’d had a lesson in kitty manners. It was really funny afterwards, watching him try to whack her with his paw while keeping his nose out of range.
Good kitty. Just last week, my neighbors pit bulls killed another cat that crossed their back yard and the owner said the dogs have that right. And in Petsmart this last weekend standing in line, this Ahole pit owner let it’s dog jump on me not caring until i told him to get his dog away from me. Pit bull owners are a breed all their own ....
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