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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:15 am 
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Could your cat be a killer?
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An Illinois man planned to kill a rival for his wife's affections by electrocuting him and then framing the victim's cat for the murder. Brett Nash was arrested for the bizarre plot in January and pleaded guilty last week. But the question remains - do cats ever kill people?

Not grown-ups. Rabies deaths notwithstanding, we are unaware of any incidents in which a house cat has killed its able-bodied adult owner.

Cats can, however, inflict a pretty gruesome mauling. In 2010, a postpartum cat in Idaho bit her owner 35 times, going back for a second round of scratches and bites after the owner washed off the blood. Last year, a Cleveland man was airlifted to a hospital after a brawl with his tabby cat.

Fights with humans usually don't end well for felines. The New York Times reported a dramatic scene in 1921, when a pet Angora clamped down on the finger of a Manhattan woman who was riding in the tonneau of her husband's car. The husband responded by strangling the cat to death, although that didn't stop an arriving police officer from drawing his weapon against the lifeless feline. It wasn't the last time the NYPD had to face down a house cat: A year later, after being bitten by a cat on Columbus Avenue, a police officer shot the animal dead with his revolver.

Cats occasionally kill infants, but the deaths are accidental. In the early 1980s, a Norwegian father discovered his cat sleeping on the face of his five-week-old baby. Although the father administered CPR, the child eventually died from the aftereffects of asphyxiation. (A doctor's report suggested that cats might be responsible for some cases of sudden infant death syndrome.) In 1931, a Connecticut cat took a nap on the chest of a 4-month-old child, smothering him. There were several reports of similar incidents in the 19th century.

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Oh mine love to give nips (out of affection) but they'd never try to kill me! They know who loves them!!!! :8


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Maybe if you died? And they ran out of cat food... or the can opener broke?

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Rumpole wrote:
Maybe if you died? And they ran out of cat food... or the can opener broke?

Well, maybe. But I don't think they'd be alone long enough for that to happen. :89


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You do hear of people dying and their bodies not found for weeks... but this convo is getting MORBID.

I might have to moderate myself :95

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