What affects us affects cats
Human bites can be as bad as cat bites when it comes to bacterial infections so we should not brand the domestic cat as being endowed with mouth bacteria which surpasses all other species, which I think is a tendency. Dogs far outstrip cats and humans on the number of bites. I am not …
I don’t know the percentage and I suspect no one knows it but I’m sure that a good percentage of American cat owners do not report it to their doctor when they are bitten by their cat and it has caused an infection. They treat the wound themselves with anti-inflammatories and antibiotics provided they …
This is a strange case in which a woman who fed a stray cat, and who loved that cat, died after the stray bit her. The woman’s name is Gabriele Kreichgauer. She lived in London. She was not a frail old lady but she may have had a compromised immune system. She called her …
Are diabetic people justified in getting their cats declawed because they have an increased chance of getting an infection from a cat bite or scratch?
The cat must have perceived a territorial threat and made a pre-emptive attack on both the dog and the owner simultaneously. The cat might have been a female defending kittens. It is extraordinary. The dog owner falls to the ground while the cat continues to attack them both. The cat’s guardian tries, throughout the …
“You can see he is ticked…I don’t know what I have ever done to make him not like me…he bit me….” “My sister’s cat, Max, hates me for some reason. The first time I saw the cat it hissed at me right away, and that is pretty much the way it has been since …
Another cat has attacked it’s owner, this time in the Roseville, California area. This time the owner’s decided to remain anonymous. Here’s a video describing what happened. Three family members had to be rescued after the family of a year-and-a-half old housecat named Khat called the police department, saying the normally docile kitty had …
Beware internet newspapers as they can distort the truth. This is another case in point and it concerns the Daily Mail, a major UK newspaper reporting on cat bites. I’ll just stick to the central point and present the two versions. This is the truth Over a three year period, 193 people presented themselves …
