Dear pent house I never thought it could happen to me…
Oh no wait, anyway yea my wife told me some neighbor said they woke up to a stray cat inside attacking them in bed, I was like psst right?
But then last night I run into a cat in the kitchen, the damn thing just stares at me and starts going that deep MUOWMUOW then hissing and advancing!?! I grab a soda bottle and throw it at the beast and it runs. Before you laugh yes this was an aggressive cat, I’ve seen plenty of stray cats but never one that showed aggression.
It is a different color to the cat the neighbors described(stray cats are a ridiculous nuisance in this neighborhood)
I was googling and found an article from England about a guy attacked in bed by a stray cat too.
Before someone suggests it this country is a no rabies zone. So yea stray cat attack is a thing, my ignorance fought.
There used to be one around here that would leap out and snarl and yowl at me and prevent me from either going into the house or going from the house to the car, depending on what time it showed up. It disappeared eventually, as do most animals smaller than a groundhog in our area. I’ve never had one get into my house, though. Do you have a pet door, or does this particular stray cat teleport?
It is the Caribbean and the house(and neighbors) is fifty years old and designed to maximize air flow with no thought to critters. All windows are burglar barred but some have no glass, entire walls are made out of “vent bricks” which are large holes for air flow.
Anyway there are so many points of cat entry, I’ve never seen one in the house before though. Someone is feeding the damn things probably as they are visible all over the neighborhood recently.
Back when my kids were still in high school and we lived in an apartment, the middle boy used to be the one most likely to go get our mail from the outside community boxes. Once, while he was doing that, one of the neighbors warned him about this horrible cat that would lurk in the tree branches above the boxes and drop down on unsuspecting people, frightening them badly.
As the description went on, it became obvious that they were describing our cat. He was a big orange marmalade who thought that the whole apartment complex was his. He’d go into any open door. He got locked in a time or two, when people were just going in and out and hadn’t noticed that he’d darted or wandered in.
I can’t imagine him attacking anyone, just because he thought of people as his minions. But then I wouldn’t have imagined him dropping on mail seekers, either. No claws out, btw.
We had a big ol’ tomcat who used to hang out in a tree and swipe my dad’s hat off of his head - I don’t think he ever dropped on him, though. Maybe that was what your cat was doing.
We have a cat door in our back door so our cat can go into our cat-proofed back yard. Well, it’s cat-proofed for our 14 year old cat; a local cat who comes and goes at will, not so much. ETA: I wouldn’t be too surprised to see that cat in my kitchen some day.
There is a stray cat that adopted my house while the previous resident was living there. He’s a yard cat that hangs out with me while I do yard work or while I’m working on my car. Last night he was bound & determined to get inside and did just that. He ran through the front door as soon as I opened it, ran past me, shot a quick glance at one of the indoor cats, zipped past my girlfriend then stopped in the kitchen when he realized he couldn’t go straight anymore. The GF scooped him up and tossed him back outside again.
He also has a little buddy thats started hanging around and begging for food in the last week or so. The empty lot next door is basically a stray cat colony so there’s always random felines wandering around my yard. Hopefully they’ll start helping with getting rid of the raccoons. I had to resort to tossing empty cans with fire crackers inside a couple of nights ago to get 3 coons to evacuate my front porch.
I like those sort of roundish pierced bricks [right hand front window area]
Though if I had vent walls like those I would be putting up large screens to keep the bugs out. I have an issue about bugs, especially flies and mosquitos.
I don’t need any stray cats attacking me in my own home, thank you VERY much. I have four cats, and two of them will do any attacking that is necessary. In fact, they will do more attacking than necessary. Usually when we are not expecting it.
A stray cat came out of the woods in the 90’s and bit me on the foot. I had the anti-rabies shots even though the cat didn’t appear to be systemic. I grew up on a farm. Animals doing something strange, then they bite you, never a good sign.
(BTW the shots aren’t the the in the stomach horror you may have heard of. They’re just 6 weeks of shots)
