Nobody attacks my owner but me!
My cat does not attack me. Mere minutes ago she walked up, brushed her side on my shin and meowed for pets. Because she’s mentally healthy. Someone living here should be, might as well be the cat.
My cat and I wrassle for fun sometimes tho. Usually when she’s on the nip and I’m high
Cat bites are particularly nasty if one actually attacks. I’ve never been bitten, but my mom has working at a vet for so long. Their bites are no joke and often cause infection. If bitten, you’re basically already dead.
That’s true, I’ve died five times from cat bites already!
My cats never attack me. Probably cause they’re never bored. Big wild yard with lots of plants and trees. Lots to do. Lots of neighborhood cats visiting. They live a life of privilege. Now city cats on the other hand… you wanna keep one in an apartment, you better be working full-time entertaining that thing.
Yeah, my wife scooped up two black cats off the street and brought them home 12 years ago. One, Rudi (RIP) was the temperamental one, she would come lay on your lap but if you brushed her too many times she’d get pissed off. The other, Bruce Willis, is the coolest motherfucker alive, a real credit to his namesake. Rudi might go as far as my porch, but Bruce is a neighborhood wanderer.
That being said, Bruce has been in fights with other animals many times sometimes winning, sometimes losing, always really loud and in the middle of the night and I have to wake up and sort things out. Rudi got in one fight because we forgot her on the porch. Poor Rudi. She would later swallow something and it killed her. She was a pain in the ass but we still loved her.
I mean my cats come to keep the dogs in line via slap when they get into trouble, it’s kind of a problem tbh.
Should not the last read: I attack my servants?
Cat Owner essentials checklist:
- Litterbox
- litter
- food
- water bowl
- carrier
- hydrogen peroxide
Hydroperoxide actually worsens the healing process of cuts. Use plain water & soap, and some rubbing alcohol of you feel you need it.
Hopefully it’s better than the Mercurochrome that we grew up with
Ha I’ve never actually looked into it, thanks. Never used H2O2 growing up but my partner did from my father in law.
My personal experience tells otherwise 🤷
One day I was in the kitchen and my cat jumped on the heating radiator because she wanted to get pet. When I finished petting her, she turned around on the radiator and her toe got stuck in the grill on top of it. She immediately started screaming and I tried to free her. She was in so much panic she bit and scratched me. My other cat was upstairs but he came down and jumped in my back to defend her because he heard her scream as if she was being murdered.
I managed to shake him of my back and to pull her toe free. I was worried she was injured, but luckily she had no wound and walked fine afterwards. There was blood on her, but it was all mine from when she bit me.
That was the only time she bit or scratched me and she is 14 years old now. The other cat is now 16 years old and I do occasionally get scratched by him. Most of the times it’s because he’s a bit clumsy. One time when I was trying to sleep, he decided the best way to cross the bed was by walking over my face. He slipped and scratched my nose. Last week he scratched my neck when he tried to get on my shoulder but misjudged the jump.
“Scratch all the Masters”
Cat bites are no joke, I was recently bitten by one and my arm hurt for almost two weeks. Not sure if putting on a tourniquet was the best idea, but tbf I did think I was gonna bleed to death without it, so that seemed more important than disinfection. Fortunately took only ~15min to have it seen by a doctor and get prescribed anti-biotics.
You probably had cat scratch fever
Nah, it was really quite serious actually, the area around the bite started yellowing under my skin, the whole area got swollen and the pain was numbing. I was prescribed 7 days of anti-biotics but I probably should have had it extended for a few days as the pain hadn’t gone away and the skin was still yellow. Its all good now, fortunately
I’m confused as to why you don’t think you had an infectious disease based on that.
No, I knew then later that I had an infection. That appeared maybe 3 hours after the bite. What I tried to say initially was that my immediate reaction to the bite wasn’t disinfection, instead I put on a tourniquet and applied pressure on the dirty bleeding wound
