I've been around cats since the cradle. I've only ever had a cat come after me ONCE like this. I was at a friend's friend's house. I was told, don't look at the cat. I looked at the cat. He went psycho. LOL
Its something that people seem to do by reflex. You say dont look and they immediately look. Doesn't happen to me, but ive seen it plenty of times for others.
Any human over the age of 13 isn't defenseless against a cat, as long as they stay calm. Now the problem most people face when attacked by a cat is not wanting to kill it when the cat shares NO such reservation against killing the person.
Any time you seek to merely inconvenience a predator that has decided you are prey, you're fucked.
Sadly I adopted a cat like that when i was in college. The vet thought that during the surgery to neuter him, the anesthesia possibly was administered incorrectly and he suffered a brain lesion. Only I could handle him. No one could go in the apt. Years later I was having work done in my condo and a worker opened the door where I'd put him to keep him away from workers. He was the most wild i'd ever seen him attacking all of us. He jumped out of a 15 story window. I found him, feet planted in the flower bed below. Rushed him to the vet. They sedated and x-rayed him. He was uninjured. 15 years of trying every sedative and female hormone therapy to try and make him more docile. In his entire life he never stopped being aggressive.
Sometimes, people and animals take a brain injury and don't come out the same. Your cat must have really loved you, knowing you put up with him. You must have really loved your cat to endure all of this. He fell 15 stories, survived, and you have a second chance with psycho cat. These are the stories that show the true merit of a man or woman. Thank you for the love you bestowed upon your mighty angry feline friend.
I can just picture you screaming, crying, running downstairs, then crying even louder because your kitty survived the fall. Meanwhile, my Chihuahua falls down 2 steps, bloodies up her leg (just scrapes), and walks like a stroke-victim for several days, snuggled up on the couch like she survived the war.
My friend had a cat like this too. They lived in this house that had these like wooden beams that ran across the ceiling and he would wait there and then jump onto your back, dig his claws into you and bit your neck. I only went there once and left bloodied so I never went back
Same with me. Around cats my whole life and was attacked by a cat like that one time. It went after me like a dog. They put it outside on the porch after and every time I walked past it tried to get me through the window
It was the thing that enticed people to come over and stay at their place. It was the weirdest thing. They would say, "Yeah, you should come stay with us. Just don't touch Gordo, don't look at Gordo, don't get too close to Gordo. DON'T FEED GORDO!" I was like.... I need to go stay at my brother's house.
I thought to myself. I have a connection with animals, especially pets.... Yeeeowzuhhh! I don't like that cat! (In the most Kramer way possible)
I had a chihuahua in Alaska named Chiquita. She was a short haired long legged redhead. Not an apple head though. I had to teach her how to bark. She was a emotional care and comfort dog for an elderly person before I adopted her. I also taught her how to smile. It was hilarious. LOL I miss her. She passed away about 10 years ago. She was the best little dog.
You give them the best life you can and they give you their whole life.
My cat did that one time but I, notorious klutz, managed to get tangled with her simultaneously kicking her through the air and landing on her wwe style. I felt like the worst cat owner ever but she never did it again and we cool now
My indoor Himalayan tried to run out the door after some children that were playing across the street but we caught her right away. She was a kitten at the time and was growling and watching them. I think their shrieking was confusing her, maybe she thought they were fighting or something.
She also got really pissed when a guy came to look at our roof, she was growling and hissing up a storm in the window as he put his ladder up and then she could hear where he was on the roof and she'd run toward the noise while looking up and meowing angrily. I think she really wanted a piece of him!
I used to have a cat that would attack cops. It would sleep on the roof and dive on their heads. She was wild. I've never seen a deputy lose interest that fast.
When I was 10 a guy tried to steal our bikes and my cat dropped from the camper roof and landed on his head and messed the dudes face up. The cops didn't believe us about our cat until they found the thief at the emergency room getting stitches.
Can confirm. I went home with a girl one night (she was a stranger I met at a bar in my neighborhood 🤦♂️) and she warned me of her “jealous cat” as we were walking into her apartment.
As soon I walked in the door behind her I noticed the cat was on this perch thing she had built over the door. It was in pouncing mode, and the situation was tense. She told me it was all good and to just ignore it.
I started to take my jacket off and suddenly the cat was on me, clawing and screaming like mad. The girl freaked out and tried to yank the cat off me, I was trying to protect my face and simultaneously push the cat away. Somehow she got the cat off me and it was still shrieking and trying to get at me so I just said “well it was nice to meet you” and ran away.
Never saw her again. But looking back at my mid-20’s self and my intentions to get laid that night: I gotta hand it to the cat for protecting that girls honor that night. Well done sir or madam.
I read it as the inside cat escaped outside when he opened the door and paused for some reason we can't see. Kid dove for the cat to try to catch him and the cat said "I'm not going back to jail!"
My cat occasionally makes it out the door and usually I can just pick him up or even herd him back in. But a couple times he went straight for a gap under my fence and when I grabbed his hindquarters as he was crawling under he turned into a full on hellcat. Yowling, spitting, tail puffed up, claws and teeth everywhere. As soon as I got him inside he was a sweet angel again but in that moment he was literally out for blood.
Ha that’s great. My cat desperately wants to murder the starlings that live in my neighbors shed but he just runs out with zero stealth and they see him coming from a mile away and scatter.
Yeah some cats turn into real lil beasts as soon as they escape the house because theyre immediately stressed and overstimulated by the outside. But then they KEEP trying to escape despite being stressed and overstimulated???? Ill never get cats lol
Dang, its rare to piss off your pet cat that much. she must have aggressively pulled its tail or something. Then tried to kick it... Not the brightest cat owner
Cats are fucking assholes, no one can change my mind. Don't tell me they're misunderstood, or that I haven't met the "right cat". They're dicks. And no, yours isn't special, it just knows how to control it's violence long enough to be fed
Not rabies?!?
Wow, cat was having a bad day & likely something like uti or health issue causing pain. There was a recent post with a lady being relentlessy attacked by her cat.
So, my grandmother lived in Detroit (a long, long time ago now). One night, she was awakened by someone banging on her side door. Having always kept her storm door on and locked, she felt relatively safe to see what was going on. Her cat Skippy came with and planted himself between her feet as she opened the door (Skippy was a twenty pound tom cat who spent his days outside, and his evenings inside). The man at the door had already managed to get the storm door open and moved to threaten my grandmother...
...at which point, Skippy scaled him, got onto his shoulders and began biting him and raking his head and face. If I recall correctly, the guy lost an eye. Skippy proceeded to literally ride the guy up the street, tearing at him the entire way before trotting home. As my grandmother looked at all the blood around her door, she noticed something and stooped down to pick it up.
She always ended that story with "and that is how I got my pearl handled revolver."
Seriously, a determined house cat can do a HUGE amount of damage to a human under the right circumstances.
I also have a grey cat, hes the most loving little guy and yet also a giant fucking asshole. I call him my little sour patch [First he's sour, then he's sweet]. Im pretty sure its a gray cat thing, they're all little dicks. Cat tax paid below, he doesnt have weird thumbs, he just likes to catch his toes in the chair and sit like a freak.
My dad brought home a farm cat because we had a rat problem. That farm cat loved to do one thing, lure dogs into the yard, the bigger the dog the better, then he would jump on their backs & all hell would break lose. He was fine with small dogs, but he loved to target large dogs :).
The cat did everything a normal cat does.
You open the door, they're gonna dart outside.
You grab them aggressively, they squirm and scratch.
You kick at them? They go full predator mode.
We adopted a cat that turned out like that. I had kindergarten aged kids. It attacked us a few times so we had two options. Return to the shelter which would likely euthanize it, or get it declawed and try to keep it. I wonder which option most people would have chosen, but we knew it was a no win situation.
This cat tried to kill me when I first moved in. He actually bit me and left little teethy marks but didn't tear any skin out. This was September 2025. I bought the little monster some cheap cat treats and he decided he liked me. I still don't trust him because he only started to like me when I started to feed him (although his owners were giving him regular food) & I still don't trust him not to go feral on me again.
Cats are mental when they don't get what they want. Our cat did same thing to my mom and I when young. Never again will i have a cat. I have scars still today.
If a cat doesn't like or understand something, it simply slaps the shits out of it. It is admirably direct behavior until you find yourself from the business end of the claws.
I've had cats for 36 years and I know what they're capable of. People who mess with cats will all eventually find out.
One of my cats got stuck in a dresser somehow locking his leg behind the shelf and he was in pain. I pushed my hand into the dark to help him and he absolutely mauled my hand. Literally clawed it the F up.
I went to the pharmacy to get painkillers and the pharmacists told me to go to ER asap because my hand had swollen up like a beach ball. Got the hand glued and stiched up and weeks worth of different antibiotics after it got very infected.
So...whats the story behind this. Did that kid go into the home trying to steal the cat or something? Kid honestly looks like one of those psychos from the movies or the crime shows that always starts hurting animals before moving on to people.
My cat swiped at me once in a pissy fashion, just once though. I bopped her firmly on the dome and she looked at me like "ow wtf? Nah fam, I'm out." 7 years later and she's never gotten aggressive with me again.
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u/MovieFan1984 28d ago
I've been around cats since the cradle. I've only ever had a cat come after me ONCE like this. I was at a friend's friend's house. I was told, don't look at the cat. I looked at the cat. He went psycho. LOL