The attack happened at around 7pm on Sunday at the edge of a wood in Belfort, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg. The 31-year-old woman had apparently been out walking her pet poodle when she was set upon by half a dozen blood thirsty moggies. The victim’s mother Josette Galliot described the mob attack.
"They scratched and bit my daughter and really went for her," Galliot said. “They jumped on her and managed to knock her over. The wild cats bit her on the leg and on her arms. They even pierced an artery," she said. Her daughter was then taken to hospital where she received precautionary rabies treatment. In a separate vehicle, the dog was transported to the local vet.
“My daughter thought it was a living nightmare,” the woman’s mother added. “She’s still traumatised today – and is bordering on depression. The vet told us that, in his 20 years in the job, he had never seen such a thing. He couldn’t find a single explanation for the cats’ abnormal behaviour,” she said. “We must get rid of this scourge,” continued Galliot. “There are too many cats in the neighbourhood, many of which are strays. There are also lots of children here. We don’t want it to happen again.”
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This is bizarre. I have never before heard of cats acting cooperatively, or as a pack. Has anyone else?
Lurker111
Textbook rabid behavior. A shotgun will solve that problem quickly.
I was just talking to my daughter today about how cats would never really cause damage to a human, beyond scratches.
My 2 cats have gone after a dog in our yard when there were kittens present. Perhaps they were just protecting their territory from the dog?
As usual the response is "kill the cats" - if people took up Trap, Neuter, return and these colonies were managed, then problems like this wouldn't arise.
If colonies are wiped out, then, they will recur, because nature abhors a vacuum and many people abhor behaving responsibly when owning pets. These animals all originate from once owned pets.
The cats were most likely protecting kittens. The behaviour of feral colonies has changed a lot over the last 50 years as environments change and their existence becomes more precarious, it's no surprise that a perceived threat led to an attack.
These cats only exist because people dumped unneutered ones, when they should get them neutered and rehome them responsibly
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