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I am reminded of an episode of the (original) Avengers, where various important people were being attacked and killed by what seemed like a large wild animal, but one which could get into surprisingly well-defended places (one fellow put himself in a large cage so that the animal couldn’t get at him - didn’t work!). As you can probably guess from context, the wild animal turned out to be a
trained killer house cat.
Now me, I’ve never been attacked by a cat at all, but since I’m somewhat allergic I don’t hang around them much.
Roddy
I was waiting for someone to ask! About time!
Anyhoo, it may be news to many of you, but cat scratch fever is more than a crappy Ted Nugent song, it’s an actual disease. It’s an infection of the lymph node(s) near the location of a cat scratch. It occurs because of all the nasty bacteria on cat’s claws. My sister’s cat was an outdoor cat and killed many a bird, mouse, etc… and had bacteria ridden claws. Sometime in 6th grade, I noticed a lump on my upper right thigh (the groinal area, as it were.) It hurt a little, but no big deal. I informed my mother (a nurse,) and she said not to worry. But a couple weeks later, it was still there and one night I was in so much pain from it I couldn’t walk. Went to the hospital and had surgery that night to do a biopsy, or to try and drain it, or something (I realize now my parents probably thought I had cancer or something.) It didn’t work, or was inconclusive, or whatever, and so a couple days later I had another surgery just to remove the damn thing, and it turned out to be a lymph node.
So now, because of that damn cat, I have had two surgeries, spent a few days in the hospital, and and sans one lymphnode.
When I worked as a vet tech I dealt with a few crazy, vicious cats. Most animals that acted violent in the exam room (with the owner there) were taken to the larger treatment area in the back, where we could get several vet techs to help and/or use stronger restraints with the animal. Any cat that was hissing and swatting at us through the cat carrier got taken to the back for everyone’s safety. You think it sucks just trying to get away from a cat trying to kill you? Try giving one a vaccination in that condition. Cats are slippery. I never got badly bitten or scratched, luckily. When handling such a cat we would all have “cat gloves” on (sort of like welders gloves), and one person would be holding the back end, one handling the head and front feet, and the vet administering treatment. It was an art.
shouldn’t that be “my evil twin’s cat” ? 