Cat attack in Saanich BC
A dog owner will tell you cats have bad attitudes, even on the best of days. But an enormously fat black cat in Saanich took it a step further Friday, launching into a rampage that forced its owner to barricade herself in the bedroom and call 911 for help.Saanich police got the early morning call from a woman “reporting that her 18-pound domestic cat had gone crazy,” said Sgt. John Price.
The hefty feline — comparable ain girth to a small dog — had apparently started biting its owner. The municipality sent out a member of the local pound, teamed with a police officer.
“For backup,” Price explained.
But as anyone who has tried to give a cat a bath can attest, a bad kitty is hard to subdue.
By the time help arrived, the feline had the run of the apartment. Its owner, a woman in her mid-30s, had sought refuge in the hallway of her apartment building.
“It was going crazy, or wild,” said pound officer Bill Storey, who was on scene. “Like the lady said, it would go after people. And it was.
“There were a few times it was charging right at you.”
Nevertheless, the pound and police crew managed to avoid getting run over by the rampaging cat, and cornered it in the bathroom. “It was very difficult to catch,” Storey admitted.
They used a long animal-catcher pole to bag it and restore order to the home.
Everyone is at a loss as to what caused kitty to snap.
“We don’t know why he did it,” Storey said. Local crews have seen the odd incident of cat craziness before, but this was “out of the norm,” he said.
The homeowner had adopted the animal from the local SPCA some five years earlier, police say.
Victoria SPCA branch manager Penny Stone said it was “quite odd for a cat to do that.”
“I’ll be honest with you, I’m more afraid of cats than dogs,” she said. “Cats are fast and sneaky. A dog always tells you what it’s going to do, but a cat doesn’t.”
Police took the cat to the Elk Lake Veterinary Hospital, where a person who answered the phone would not divulge the animal’s condition due to “confidentiality issues.”
Storey said the cat was put down.
The homeowner was described as “traumatized and heartbroken” by the whole ordeal.
From canada.com/ vancouversun
