Posted on 03/12/2014 7:18:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono
The Oregon cat that attacked a baby and trapped his owners in their bedroom over the weekend won’t be losing one of his nine lives due to his antics, but he will be spending at least one of them undergoing therapy.
Lux, the 22-pound Himalayan house cat that prompted his owners to call 911 after a violent outburst, will be visiting a pet psychologist after he takes a trip to see a veterinarian.
The 4-year-old cat will remain a part of the family, despite his actions on Sunday. According to his owners, Lux has a “history of violence.”
“We're not getting rid of him right now,” said owner Lee Palmer. “He's been part of our family for a long time.”
Palmer’s seven-month-old child received a few scratches on the forehead from the cat after the baby pulled his tail.
“Officers arrived and cautiously opened the door to the residence, where they saw the black and white Himalayan dart into the kitchen, attempting to flee custody. Officers were able to outwit the high-strung Himalayan, who climbed on to the top of the refrigerator, and get a snare around the cat and safely get the cat behind bars in its crate,” according to a Portland Police Bureau press release.
“Officers then told the family that it was safe to come out of the bedroom. The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city.”
They are not pack animals but one usually rises to the top in my experience. It's always the male who keeps everyone else in line.
According to his owners, Lux has a “history of violence.”
Sounds like a feline version of “A Clockwork Orange.”
What’s the odds of the kid pulling a kitty’s tail again?
Thinkin the same thing TR. Drop kick works good too. Worth the tattered forearms!
A seven month old is a mobile infant, not a toddler, they can’t be left unsupervised period. They grab for anything in grabbing reach and have just learned how to crawl. Any cat worth its salt knows not to stay in the same room with a 7 month old
Seriously?! Amazing how daddy has the equipment to procreate, but lacks the testicles to subdue an angry cat. Throw a damn blanket over the beast and throw the wadded up thing outta the house. I’d arrest the guy for being a candyass.
They probably thought it was cute at first. Then the cat reacted like a cat.
Pulling a cat’s tail can seriously it’s spine. Then it got kicked, so it was upset?! You dont say!
There are ways to avoid these situations. The ones to blame are the adults.
This article deliberately leaves out the part where the guy kicked the cat.
So, starting from the beginning. The kid pulled the cat’s tail. The cat perceived a threat and tried to protect himself. The cat scratched the kid. The father kicked the cat which became hysterical and went after the humans.
The cat does not need therapy. The cat needs to be in a home without kids and a man who kicks cats.
Cats have claws. Letting a cat go near a baby is dumb. Cats have instinct, not ethics or morals.
Don’t pull the cat’s tail. :-)
A buddy of mine was supposed to inherit a cat when he got married. As a gift, I made him the Original Dr. Wacko Feline Disposal Kit. It consisted of a claw hammer and a hazardous waste disposal bag.
These people are dumber than dog poo.
I had a cat that liked to get up on the kitchen counter. I kept a hockey stick just around the corner in the dining room. For fun, I’d come around the corner and flip kitty off the counter. I called it “going for the top shelf.” After a while he grew tired of playing “top shelf” and stopped getting on the counter.
He turned out to be kind a weird cat. Can’t figure out why.
Okay I’m an animal lover but sometimes you have to put an animal down when they go bad
I see that you and a couple of others here are a voice of reason, and don’t delight in dreaming up ways to kill a pet cat for reacting to an injury. I grew up with cats and dogs in the house, and so did my kid-and you are spot on-never trust a baby/rug rat/toddler/kid under 8-10 with a pet-any pet, even a bird-that is asking for a domestic disaster.
I’ve fostered cats for a neighbor who runs the local animal welfare shelter-some of them were feral-because I have a cat-friendly Husky, when those cats get adopted, they are loving, dog tolerant pets-but they won’t put up with being hurt, nor should they.
Any parent who allows a baby to be alone with, or grab a pet-cat or dog-has no business with a pet. Probably has no business with a kid, either, but that is none of my concern.
I also have a 22 pound cat-a Maine Coon-and my two much smaller cats exercise due caution when roughousing with him, breaking off the game if he gets too rowdy, and I never allow him to play grab my hands-that is just dumb. If you don’t know enough about the animal to live safely with it, don’t get it just because you think it looks neat-way too many people do just that.
And the p***y boy who endangers his kid by allowing it to yank on a pet, then kicks the pet and calls 911 is beyond my contempt-adoptive families are interviewed at out shelter, and that family would never get a pet there, dog or cat-they need a pet rock...
Uh-make that “our shelter”-sorry...
These people must be related to the couple from Mass that called 911 when they were stuck in the corn maze.
Rehome the cat. Neuter the boyfriend. Spay the mother.
Bravo!
One bat to the child by the cat can hardly be considered an attack - it is what cats do when their tails are pulled. Look at the pic of the child - that cat was not trying to scratch the child - probably a bat to get the child to release its tail. Not even a full scratch.
Now, after the guy kicked him, the cat was probably in full attack mode - and I don't blame it one bit.
I think the family needs therapy and the cat needs a home with someone with an understanding of cats. I say this as someone that has raised many animals, including cats with several children. I have tamed many feral cats as well so one going “wild” to the point of treeing a family is just funny to me.
Thank you-people whose solution to a pet that reacts to abuse by biting or scratching leave me cold-and that pet altercation would be downright funny if it were not for what started it, and the dumbass dad-I’d be shamed beyond belief if I were called a p***y by Shepard Smith-and I’m a woman...
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