French Woman Attacked by Cats

anncoates wrote: »

Any dog that lets a couple of cats bully their owner need to have their dog identity card revoked with immediate effect.

6 feral cats not 'a couple of cats'. The owner was mauled along with the dog. That make her a wuss too?

anncoates wrote: »

Did you read the article? She's French and she owns a poddle.

She owns a river?

I read the article. It seems you didn't. As you assume a poodle is a small fluffy lap dog.

8 of of ten cats prefer poodles.

anncoates wrote: »

How the hell can you be "dragged to the ground" by a couple of hiousecats?

anncoates wrote: »

Any dog that lets a couple of cats bully their owner need to have their dog identity card revoked with immediate effect.

Not that it matters much but it wasn't two cats.



On topic, I've been attacked by a single cat when I was a teen and to be honest it was pretty frightening. Can't image what it'd be like to be attacked by 6 from all directions.
"left with a torn artery which could have proved fatal" ****ing hell..

He added: "Tourists from countries like Britain should certainly be wary – they should certainly not approach these cats, or try to feed them."


LOL

Those idiotic British tourists who insist on feeding our ferocious feral french cats should desist or suffer dire consequences...

Im guilty of feeding wild cats too... This could happen to me :eek:

The cats involved had allegedly been researching phone contracts prior to the attack.

Pug160 wrote: »

I'd say that would be scarier than some people might imagine. Feral ones would obviously be a lot more aggressive as well. I think some of those cats breed with wildcats, which would make them bigger and even more vicious. Some of the commentators on here might be underestimating these cats.

I completely agree with you up to this point.
People underestimate the power of packs of animals, and people underestimate the aggressiveness of hungry animals and feral cats have zero trust in humans whereas domestic cats will rely on humans to a certain degree - for food, affection and companionship.

But, then you say this....

A bigger, more aggressive dog probably would have scared them off

I don't agree that a bigger dog would have deterred a pack of feral, hungry cats that either so hungry they attacked a human, moreso than the dog. (she had a torn artery, the dogs injuries weren't mentioned, just that he was treated). I think it's far more likely the cats were infected with rabies, a virus that attacks the brain and infected animals are extremely aggressive and prone to attack anything it encounters. Feral cats by their nature, while they can be far more aggressive than human cats are usually very wary of human interaction at all.

but do we really need more people with powerful dogs they can't even handle or look after?

Not all large dogs are owned by people who don't train or handle their dogs properly. You're making an assumption that this woman couldn't handle a dog based on the fact that she was attacked by cats. It doesn't state what type of poodle the woman was handling so you're just assuming (along with other ill informed posters) that she must have had a toy poodle. A standard poodle is a fairly large and robust dog, similar in size to a labrador or golden retriever. But sure why let facts get in the way of assumption. :rolleyes:

Single women are the worst culprits for that. They're getting akitas, bullmastiffs and other powerful breeds and half the time they don't even walk them or look after them properly.

:eek::eek:

I would love to see the statistics you have to back up this outrageous statement. Because you must have statistics or facts to back it up, it can't be from observations you've made yourself. Think about what you're saying here....

You must know that these women (of whom you must know a sizeable amount to make a blanket assumption) are all single?? What do you do? Go up and interview them 'blind date' style??

And then you must see them out walking their dogs to know that they have them. But...no wait, "half the time they don't even walk them". Do you stalk these single women and know exactly when they walk their dogs? Even if you had a couple of neighbours or friends who you knew to be single and didn't walk their dogs it's still complete speculation and a ridiculous assumptive statement to make.

If you saw me out, you might assume I was single as my partner doesn't walk with me a lot of the time. I walk all kinds of dogs. My own two are medium/large dogs but I also walk GSDs, huskies, weimeraners, greyhounds...plenty of big dogs (don't get me started on the assumption that because it's a big dog, it must be aggressive or powerful, some of the dogs I look after are the biggest babies:o)

The whole macho dog thing is getting out of hand IMO.

So these single women want to be macho now? I think you're 'sort of' on the right tangent here. Northern breeds such as huskies/malamutes, akitas, and mastiff breeds such as the dogue de bordeaux have become popular with people who like to consider themselves 'hard men'. These breeds have replaced pitbulls etc to a certain degree, so it's only a matter of time before they appear on the restricted breed list.