Angry cat trapped family in bedroom

[Jazzy]

A rampaging cat which attacked its owners' baby and charged at them, forcing them to barricade themselves in a bedroom, is to be given therapy.

The couple had to call the police for help after the Himalayan feline called Lux trapped them in the room in Portland, Oregon.

Owner Lee Palmer said the black and white moggie had scratched his seven-month-old child on the forehead after the baby pulled its tail.

Mr Palmer then kicked the 22lb animal "in the rear" to protect the infant but that only served to antagonise the cat which "just went over the edge".

A 911 call has been released, in which the four-year-old cat can be heard screeching in the background as the owner tells the operator: "He's charging us. He's at our bedroom door.

"I kicked the cat in the rear, and it has gone over the edge ... he's very, very, very, very hostile."

Mr Palmer, his girlfriend and their baby were trapped and only felt safe when the cat was eventually captured by police using a dog snare.

But the couple are not giving up on Lux - he will now be taken to a vet, while a pet psychologist is also due to see the animal.

"We're not getting rid of him right now," Mr Palmer said. "He's been part of our family for a long time."

It is not the first time the family have had problems with Lux, who is described as having a "history of violence".

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What would you do with this cat?

 

[DrLeftover]

I think you know what I would have done with the cat, dog, wild animal, or human intruder, as soon as it threatened bodily harm to my wife or my child, or now, grandchild.

In fact, on a group camping trip several years ago, I did precisely that. I beat a drunken idiot half senseless with an old nightstick and then threw him down a steep hill out of our campsite, and THEN reported him to the park ranger, who, if memory serves, found him and turned him over to the sheriff who gave him some bandages and dried him out. And all he did was to become overly fresh with a friend of mine and didn't take 'hell no, go away and leave me alone' for an answer.

If she had been blood kin, my intervention in the situation may have involved the coroner.

My question is: why didn't they do something of the kind?

 

[Jazzy]

It is not the first time the family have had problems with Lux, who is described as having a "history of violence".

So, knowing this, they thought it was safe to bring a baby into this situation?

But the couple are not giving up on Lux - he will now be taken to a vet, while a pet psychologist is also due to see the animal.

Why wasn't this done a long time ago?

"I kicked the cat in the rear, and it has gone over the edge ... he's very, very, very, very hostile."

Wonder how many other times this cat (before the baby entered the picture) was kicked. Cats usually are not violent and would prefer to run and hide. Sounds more to me, in this present situation, the baby pulled it's tail, got kicked and had enough. It was protecting itself from more abuse.

 

[DrLeftover]

I missed that part of the story.

I therefore change my answer.

If the couple so mentioned abuse an animal in that way, then what are they going to do with a baby?