Cat attack left burly builder in hospital

A stray cat attack has left a burly builder in a hospital bed on a drip.

The black feral moggy sunk its sharp teeth deep into six-footer Dominic Tallant's left hand and scratched his right arm - drawing blood - after he cornered it in a bid to stop it pestering his own pets.

For months the stray has been terrorising his family's own four cats, who are now too scared to leave their home in Springville Terrace, Idle.



So, with the help of his wife Lisa and other neighbours, Mr Tallant, 33, a chimney repair specialist, managed to grab hold of the black cat in a bid to get it into a makeshift trap. But it lunged at him, biting his left hand, which swelled and turned red, then purple.

The injury landed him in a hospital bed at Bradford Royal Infirmary where, for two nights, he had to be given antibiotics through a drip.

Mrs Tallant said: He's about six foot tall, so it is a surprise he's been put in hospital by a cat but it is a wild animal and they carry diseases. We are sick of our cats being harassed. This cat has been causing so much grief for three months it has been terrorising our own cats," she said. "They are now too scared to go out to go to the toilet."