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Yeah great story chris and really nice pic. Your B/W work is really nice.
Got to say cats are funny creatures. Our old one was lion heart around everything else but was terrified of turtles. (we got one as a pet a while back). Whenever they would run in to each other in the garden the cat would run indoors and be terrified the whole day. The same cat was terrorizing all the neighbors dogs (not to mention the neighbor).
 
Chris101 said:
I'm convinced Chris, that cat claws secrete some sort of venom that inhibits healing.
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They may as well be venomous. Cats claws host tons of bacteria that prevent wounds from healing, same deal with their mouths.

I once owned a huge black tom cat named Dirby who was by far the most vicious and aggressive cat I have ever met. I think he was really just a feral cat that we tried to raise as a house cat. He weighed 23 pounds, all muscle, no fat and had claws that were about a half inch long. Unlike other cats, he wouldn't swat or scratch, he would dig his claws into your hand or face and use them to hold you still so he could bite you. He always drew blood. I still have scars on my arm.

Once he bit my nose between the nostrils and nearly pierced it. Another time he clawed my face from forehead to jaw about a week before class pictures. The one that really takes the cake is when he clawed my hand his claw got stuck in my middle finger. It literally went in one end and was poking out about a quarter inch down my finger. My finger got swollen and infected really bad and didn't heal for several weeks. It was so stiff I could hardly move it. My parents loved that cat, but I wasn't a fan. I can't say I was too disappointed when it came time to put him down.
 
You tell the most wonderful stories, Chris. And I love the pic of the "killer cat" but Molly, who is definitely alert in her first pic, looks very innocent at the same time! :)
 
Great story Chris. I enjoy very much reading stories along with pictures like this.
Thanks for sharing.
 
clicker said:
Cat are good for one thing only-dog food.
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Most dogs I know tremble before cats.

Old Molly, my grandpa's cat described earlier, tore up a pit bull once in a totally unprovoked attack, and she also tore up grandpa's big white German Shepherd mix several times.

One of my friends has a pair of cats who actually work together as a team (unusual for cats, they tend to be solitary hunters) to terrorize her small dog. The poor thing is so frightened of cats that he pees all over himself whenever he sees a cat!

When I was in high school, my parents had a dog that was 75% wolf. He wasn't scared of anything, except cats! I saw him fight a coyote once, and he merely had to look at a rottweiler or pit bull to make it run in fear. Cats, however, scared that wolf to death. He wouldn't even get close to one. Why? Because when my fat old cat, Simba, was born at my parents house when I was in high school, the wolf made the suicidal mistake of LICKING the momma cat's belly while she slept one day. She went totally berserk, ripping the wolf-dog's face up, jumping on his back, and tearing up my father when he tried to rescue the dog!

Simba is now 16 years old. He still lives at my parents house, and they have a Great Pyrenees dog. These are HUGE dogs bred to protect sheep from wolves and bears. The cat terrorizes her constantly, and has even attacked her while she was eating and then stolen her food!
 
anu L ogy said:
Haha this was an awesome story. How the heck did it take down a rattlesnake??
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Grandpa's old cat is actually known to have killed two of them. One of them we know she killed because she brought its head back to grandpa and dropped the thing at his feet, still dripping snake blood. Rattlesnakes have a very distinctive looking diamond-shaped head. No mistaking what it was from! The other one she killed in the neighbor's yard, and the neighbor saw her do it. He said she was walking through his front yard when a rattler jumped up in front of her and began to rattle. She just slapped it down with her claws and jumped on it before biting through it's spine to kill it. The snake was about 3 feet long!
 
As a kid, we used to go crabbing from time to time, scooping blue crabs in a net by luring them in to shallow water with fish process waste tied to a rope. Today it would be non-PC and maybe illegal, but once I gave our cat a live crab. The crab is a perfect size prey animal for the cat, but none of the cat's weaponry is effective against a blue crab shell. The cat instinctively and proficiently avoided the crab claws. It was a stand-off! The cat would not give up though; it only ended when I put the crab back in the bucket.


stompyq said:
Yeah great story chris and really nice pic. Your B/W work is really nice.
Got to say cats are funny creatures. Our old one was lion heart around everything else but was terrified of turtles. (we got one as a pet a while back). Whenever they would run in to each other in the garden the cat would run indoors and be terrified the whole day. The same cat was terrorizing all the neighbors dogs (not to mention the neighbor).
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ebolton said:
As a kid, we used to go crabbing from time to time, scooping blue crabs in a net by luring them in to shallow water with fish process waste tied to a rope. Today it would be non-PC and maybe illegal, but once I gave our cat a live crab. The crab is a perfect size prey animal for the cat, but none of the cat's weaponry is effective against a blue crab shell. The cat instinctively and proficiently avoided the crab claws. It was a stand-off! The cat would not give up though; it only ended when I put the crab back in the bucket.
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My son found a video on YouTube of a cat in Saudi Arabia killing a scorpion. He kept hitting the scorpion's back over and over with lightening fast blows that were too fast for the scorpion to sting. Finally, the scorpion died and the cat ate everything but the stinger, which he left laying on the ground! He knew it was dangerous...
 
chippy said:
ah yes, the old laws that where made to stop KFC encouraging youth to earn a few bucks after hours hehehe ..catching umm animals and calling them chickens. it also put a stop to some restaurants in the old days serving certain delicacies ....;)
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It was certain small restaurants, not KFC. I've worked with the food industry in SA for 10 years and the large chains need way more volume and consistency than you can get from unconventional supply channels.

chippy said:
cats have always held both a favourable (with little lonely old ladies) and bleak (every one else) existence in South Australia, our notorious Dr. John Wamsley has always hated them and the significant destruction they evoke on our habitat, (even though he is a nutter it is true the cat is responsible for the death of many native bird and marsupials each day) so he makes hats out of them...seems a pretty popular thing to do too, both hating cats and making hats out of them!!!
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Western cultures are odd in that some animals are for food, some are pets and there is little crossover. I figure if you're going to eat animals one is as good as another, but the humaniacs obviously had enough influence to have this Section added to the Act.

I tried to photograph a wild cat with my Leica last weekend, but it was too far away. RFs are not the best wildlife cameras some of the time.

Marty
 
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