Could be me but you need to watch out with cats, for serouse, if a cat isn't your, just don't touch it. I might sound very stupid at the moment but you can get a seriouse infection if 'he ripped hlaf the skin of your arms'.

I have a friend who this happend to... compare it with what happens when a dog bites you...

Yeah, you gotta watch the strays. When I was in florida I got scratched froma stray and ended up with, and I'm not making this up, "Cat Scratch Fever"...I swear that's exactly what they called it. It can last from 1 week to 5 weeks. And if you get it there is nothing they can do for you, all you can do is take aspirin you ride it out. The reaction of it ranges from mild headache full blown hurl your guts out and everything inbetween. You can have one or all of them together. One minute you feel great the next your begging someone to shoot you.

Just wait til the scratches start to itch. Aaaaaaaaaaagh.

Thank you MGiff! He was pretty calm and relaxed and happy till I got him up about a foot and a half off the ground and then he turned into a little firecracker lol. Actually I hope he comes back so I can either adopt him or find him another home. I'm not thrilled with the spraying thing though....it's nasty and with the amount of work I do in my flower beds I really don't need a cat that sprays around here....he seems to be probably around 9 mos. old or so and my concern is if he does come back it might be too late for a neutering to stop the problem...

Yeah the odd part is....I know better than to try to pick up a strange animal....he sure had me conned!!! He was so cute....all rolling and happy and when I petted him he was all lovey dovey.... *sigh

Yeah...I know better... He caught a tendon in my forearm pretty good......I have a little bit of swelling locally but some loss of motion and it's pretty painful for such a small puncture....there's alot of bruising around the teethmarks but he only really went deep with one tooth by the looks of it. I'm keeping it cleaned out and using ice packs on it periodically to keep the swelling down. I've been bitten by dogs before...it feels about the same....just smaller lol.

I've heard of Cat Scratch Fever...it's nothing to mess with! The innocent sounding name doesn't come close to describing the sometimes dangerous results...like what you described webgizmos!

Anyway......on to another misadventure today.....I'll probably get stung trying to get more closeups of bumblebees

BRAVO !~!
I have 5 cats..4 are strays..and I have experianced the fraidy bratty cat....

Its My Secret

Geeeeeeeeeee

we women are kinda like that from time to time aren't we???

(cue the angelic music and radiant halo)

My arm is sore as........well...you know.... It's starting to localize now in the worst of the bites.....the other ones have finally opened up and got the infection out with a little not so gentle coaxing.... nasty!!!...

slowly but surely keeping poisoning at bay with alot of peroxide, isopropyle (ow!!! dang!!! ) and antibiotic cream and lots of ice...elevation...

sheesh!

Last nite by flashlight tracked the little bugger a ways back in the woods....was fighting with my Lar.....not cool......and like I said.....not sure if I really want a spraying cat around the wild raspberries...geeze

this is NOT my idea of fun, man.......I'm not necessarily amused by having to dress seepy wounds 3 times a day...ack

ah well.....live......let live......and learn....

Hate cats. nothing to it.i cant stand those little pesky furballs, i mean they are kinda cute but when they grow up and bring dead bunnies to your door and seperate all the limbs from the body for you, thats when you start to get annoyed my cat has been doing this for the past two weeks and i am thinking of gettin a dog.

But Pyro, they do that to show they love you! Did you ever see the thread I posted with the snake picture that my baby brought me? Alive. Inside the house???

Ha, I agree with you! She's not done it again!

I was laying comfortably on my couch, half dozing watching tv...a peacefull quiet eveining, all of a sudden, I grunted as my oldest cat.. chipdip.. pounced on my belly. and what the heck was that thing on my chest?..Oh No, a mouse, I sat up quickly screaming to get the mouse and the now baffeled cat off me !~! I got the mouse off me, and instead of just falling to the floor, it ran..a live mouse I saw the mouse heading for the hall closet...nice gap under all doors..hmmm. I grab chipdip, the cat haha and open the closet door flinging the cat in headfirst. Now the whole famdamily has arrived to see what all my screetching was for....4 cats watching me, while the 5th sat back looked at the mouse, now clearly hiding in my shoe. Well it took an hour to catch the mouse Even after catching the mouse and waving it under my cats nose, they just looked at me kinda funny.
I mean really, my cat had been so kind to give me a gift, the least I could do was hold onto it

Yes Mrs _footsie_ us women are all alike Suckers for a sad story and a cute face

Its My Secret

I am also constantly getting scratched up. I got scratches ontop of scratches. My wife says I look like a patchwork quilt sometimes. I invariably am in the shortest route to whatever my kitties happen to be going after at the time. I have 12, so i end up as part of the race track quite frequently. Not to mention Top Springboard, Launching ramp, and quick turn around. And let's not even begin to talk about bath day! My latest problem is that, My wife collects thimbles, and several of the Cats have discovered her thimble racks hanging on the wall, which are precariously close to a napping spot. You know Thimble roll, and bat very nicely. I get to catch Hell! all of a sudden they all become my Cats as well. when they are Bad Kitties, they are mine, and when good, they are community Kitties.