'Screaming' Rabid Cat Attacks 15 In Neighborhood

WKMG TV6 ^ | January 7, 2006 | author not named

[goldstategop]

Demented Viking Kitty Zot Ping!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Sabatier]

Wonder if they have Trap/Neuter/Return in that county? No that's not Congress, that's the policy where feral cats are neutered and returned back to the neighborhood.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Yet another reason feral cats should be exterminated.

[HighWheeler]

The rabies virus can infect any mammal. Birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish can not transmit rabies.


I would like to know if mosquitoes can transmit rabies from mammal to mammal.

[IonInsights]

Do rabies shots still consist of a series of a dozen or so painful shots in the abdomen?

[Safetgiver]

ZOT!

[x_plus_one]

I wonder if they have Trap/Neuter/Return in that county?

TNR doesn't prevent rabies or any other diseased animal from spreading its sickness. /how many of the 15 above people will go in for the full round of rabies shots? Rabies shots can cause a serious reaction. It's better to trap and release far far way or even humanely put down the feral animal.

[Hardastarboard]

LOLOL!!!! Amazingly clever. I sent your description to several cat loving (and cat hating) friends. The amusing thing is that it actually seems like it might work, as long as the cat isn't too dirty.

[horse_doc]

It's better to trap and release far far way or even humanely put down the feral animal.

I used to believe that too, but it just doesn't work. Another cat will ALWAYS move into the territory.

Every survey ever done shows that it is actually cheaper to trap a cat, spay/neuter it, give it a three-year rabies shot, and release it again. The cat will defend its (rabies-free) territory much more effectively that than an expensive animal control officer ever will.

Yes, it took me a long, long time to come around to this, but the numbers are always the same. If I thought that I could control rabies more effectively by killing feral cats, I would, in a heartbeat. A feral cat's life isn't worth one case of rabies, in either humans or livestock. It just is more effective to let the cats guard their own turf.

[Dallas59]

[JCEccles]

When a cat getrs that way, it's nothing but a flying, screeching ball of knives, teeth, and fur, definitely NOT something to get near.

Pinky the cat needs a good home.

[KillTime]

Very funny. I took the liberty to modify your post to translate it to the author of the lists typing skills...

how to kleen kat

1. mak toilut kleen
2. lift bof lids n ad sampoo
3, find n suuth kat az u karry him too bafroom
4. n 1 quik mov placc kat in toilut, klooz bof lids n stand on top, so kat kan not excape
5; kat wil self agitat n mak many suds
(ignoor noiz from nside toilut, kat iz reely njoyn dis)
6- fluss toilut 3-4 timz. dis maks power rince n iz quite efectiv
7. hav sumone opin outsid door, stand az far frum toilut az possibul n quikly lift bof lids
8' kleen kat wil rockut out ov toilut n outdoorz were he wil air dri
9. kat iz kleen and happi

urs, cincerly,
the dog

[Wilhelm Tell]

It seems to me that "fixed" feral cats that have had rabies shots would be beneficial. They eat rats and mice and other vermin. I have seen cats do useful things like kill roaches. Good pest control.

[RabidBartender]

LOL.

I don't care who you are, that's funny.

[COEXERJ145]

Do rabies shots still consist of a series of a dozen or so painful shots in the abdomen?

No, they're given in the arm now and consist of a total of five shots.

[Lady Jag]

[maggief]

[pollywog]

We tried to give our cat a bath a few times -- she won!

LOL. Funny how nearly every time you hear the words 'cat' and 'bath' in the same sentence, you also hear the word 'try'.

Exception to this is our Buttermilk. She is 9 years old and has just LOVED a bath from day one. Hubby bathes her and she goes limp in the water as if floating in a sauna in Hawaii!!!

[Slings and Arrows]

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL!