This is a UK cat story. Do you believe it? I don’t want to insinuate that the 80 year victim of a domestic cat attack is lying or embroidering her story but I am sure that we do not have the entire story. The way she describes it and the picture of her face just doesn’t stack up for me.
The Story
Nora Scott, 80, is doing her gardening. She was wearing glasses. A neighbour’s cat, who happens to be black, wanders into her garden, jumps up to her face and attacks her. She is mauled by a domestic cat. Nora is left with two black eyes and some scratches on her face. But the scratches are not that visible in the photo which I publish here under fair use¹. There are some minor punctures. Nora says that “There was blood everywhere…” What from? Two small punctures?
That is the story really. I am very surprised to see two black eyes as if she has been hit – punched – in the face. Could a domestic cat do this when a person is wearing glasses? And why would a cat attack a person in what Nora indicates is a totally unprovoked way? Domestic cats do not make unprovoked attacks on humans. They have to be badly provoked and any attack would be defensive. A domestic would be mad to attack a person. There is no logic to it.
Nora called the police but they won’t do anything about it. The cat’s owner has responded by apologising and has agreed to rehome her cat. Nora wants a law against dangerous cats along the lines of the Dangerous Dogs Act.
The cat has been called a “vicious moggy” by the newspaper that reports the story. Sorry, I don’t believe this story. I know I have trouble believing anything anymore! But this looks wrong to me. I suspect there is a neighbour dispute and Nora wanted to get at her neighbour and fabricated the story. That sounds harsh and may be completely incorrect in which case I would apologise but I have never heard such a fanciful story nor two black eyes being caused by an unprovoked domestic cat attack.
What do you think?
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In my state any call for domestic violence is an automatic arrest. Someone has to go to jail– police decide who– but an arrest is mandatory. That’s because we had those issues years ago where the police didn’t take abuse in families seriously, seeing it as a private issue, and the couple would work it out.
Good point Ruth. The police should ask some questions because it does look someone hit her. The trouble is in the UK, the police are not good at domestic violence. Actually they tend to want to bypass problems and make life easy for themselves. There I go again, complaining about the police….!
She’s a victim of domestic violence and she’s covering up for the abuser. The whole cat attack story is a convenient fabrication. It has nothing to do with the cat or the neighbor who owns the cat. This woman is terrified that if she tells who attacked her he (or she) will retaliate. She’s afraid to leave the abuser, afraid to confront the facts of what’s happening to her and the terrible position she’s in– this whole story about a cat doing it lets the abuser off the hook, allows her to fantasize that, yeah, it really was the cat that did this, and so she can live in denial one more day, believing that the abuser really loves her and this will be the last time he’ll hit her, and if she just tried harder to please him, and he’s always so nice afterwards… The police need to dig into this and find out who really hit her before he (or she) kills this woman. Then the neighbor can get her cat back instead of rehoming it.
Was the neighbor’s cat a tiger?!this is some nutty old woman who wants to start trouble with her neighbor,and is using this stupid excuse!the goverments are killing our dogs,,now they want to kill our cats!!
You are kind. Thanks.
I think she is confused.