How many cats are needed to defeat a tiger?

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You get to pick the species and strength of the tiger. The cats must he felix domesticus or catus or whatever they’re called. No wildcats allowed!

How many brave and dedicated cats would it take to fight and kill a tiger? We’re assuming the urge to kill the tiger would be greater than fear of death.

I’m posting this in GD because I’m hoping biologists and animal experts can come up with a somewhat accurate (if not exact) estimate. Jokes are cool but I actually am curious about the answer.

**A ridiculous premise obviously. *

Feel free to move to GQ or IMHO if you think it is more appropriate. It’s hard to pick sometimes…

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Felis catus. The only cats with the instinct to fight as a group are lions. I don’t think domestic cats have it in them to gang up on a tiger.

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Could a housecat even injure a tiger in any way? I mean unless you plan to simply crush one with a ton of housecats. It’s kind of like asking how many chinchillas it would take to bring down a gorilla.

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The other issue that might prevent any number of cats from killing a tiger is that cats kill by delivering a lethal bite to the neck. A domestic cat doesn’t have a jaw big enough to do that to a tiger.

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My cats injure me on a daily basis, and they’re only trying to show love… :smiley:

Yes, they have sharp claws and fangs and they are agile.

If we follow in the steps of legendary commander Zap Brannigan and send wave after wave of tiger-fodder cats to swarm a tiger, he will be vainquished within minutes/hours. The question is how many cats are needed.

John Mace: I know cats don’t fight in packs and I don’t care.That is what I had in mind when I stated it was an absurd assumption. :wink: . Surely cat bites would make the tiger bleed, it just might take a lot of them. So, how many cats?

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In that case, the answer is none. It can’t be done. You might as well ask what would cats be like if they weren’t like cats.

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One.

If the cat were frozen, sharpened to a point, and traveling at a sufficiently high rate of speed.

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Sigh. They can’t do it NOW. But what if they were conditionned or drugged in some way? Stop evading the question and give out a number already!

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I answered the original question. The new question you are asking is ridiculous. You actually are asking what they would be like if they were different.

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Yeah, that’s the kind of bullshit propaganda ignorant cat terrorist supporters like you spread around the feline settlements. You should be ashamed of yourself for helping brainwash cute kittens letting themselves be used as litteral ammunition in the Fighter Against Tigers! You, sir, have some serious soul-searching to do!

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Only one: batcat, but he must be prepared

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What? But I said it was a RIDICULOUS PREMISE FROM THE START! Please re-read the op!

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That movie done right would be a major historic achievement for humanity and herald the arrival of what I can only hope be called “awesome cinema”.

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You certainly can’t complain about whatever answer you get then, can you?

One cat should suffice if it were crammed far enough down a tiger’s throat. And since cats don’t have to be cats anymore, make it a hand grenade cat. Then it just needs to be near the tiger.

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Look, if Krosp, King of Cats, can’t get them to do anything useful for more than five minutes, what chance do you have?

Five million, a vat, and a lid. Drown the tiger in kitties.

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184

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Six: one to hold the light bulb, and five to turn the ladder.

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Finally someone with a real answer!

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Well, tigers have 6 hit dice. On a full attack, a claw/claw/bite routine, they get +9+9/+4 on their Base Attack Bonus, doing (2x) 1d8+6 damage for claws, plus 2d6+3 for the bite. They have an Armor Class of 14.

Cats, on the other hand, only have 1/8 of a hit die (about 2 hp). They do a claw/claw/bite at +4/+4/-1 BAB for (2x) 1d2-4 and 1d3-4 for claws and bite, respectively. Fortunately they also have an AC of 14.

Because the cats actually have a negative damage rating and only 2 hit points, it’s pretty obvious from the figures here that no matter how many cats you pile up to fight a tiger, that tiger’s not going to get any XP from the encounter.

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Lace a cat with some convenient poison, feed it to the tiger.