Begle1

That's awesome.

dodgezilla04

i bet that guard cat would love to eat begle's turkey

Begle1

A 40 pound turkey would beat the stuffing out of any cat and you know it.

dodgezilla04

you're killing me

Howy

My father-in-law told me his family used to raise Peacocks from time to time. He also explained that if you came within 20 feet of them theyd peck the crap out of you until you're a bloody pulp!

Kinda got me thinking of Peacocks as a nice perimeter defense!

Justwannabeme

10 below zero and two days had my Siberian dog parked his body near the pond and the road.
thought he was fooled by the catbirds in the pine trees across the road heheh stupid dog.
my son walks out to see what's going on and looks UP.

tiny orange kitten up 30 feet in the tree. we play fireman and rescue it.
it attacks my gloved hand so fierce that I shake it to get it off of me!!
toss it right at the dog, who caught it with open mouth, tail hanging out.
dog yipes and i get cat back, on my throat.
my son is laughing so hard now, he has tears.
I get it off my throat with BOTH hands and hold it for him to take.
sucker curls up in his gloves and starts purring......#$$%^&*(!

just over one year old now and everyone including sled dogs loves this cat.
free roam of the 95 acres and brings back more flying squirrels, chipmunks, big field mice, moles, frogs and baby racoons. it will go into the creek too, for crayfish.
I am still learning about cats and never thought i would like them, but seeing how it walks among the dogs without fear and climbs the side of the barn to get in at the eaves. I believe it has earned a place here, one tough animal.

can't beat begle1's turkey though, he smokes!

Hvytrkmech

I had to rescue a cat from the top of a tree a couple years ago, go figure, I get detailed from my truck co. to another truck co. on the other side of the city for the night and the 1st call we go to is a "good intent call" to rescue a cat from the top of a 100' tree. (we normally won't rescue a cat, here's why).
I have all my bunker gear on including my neck collar, and gloves. I fly the bucket through the trees as far as it will go, (100ft), and I'm still 10ft short, so I call the cat with the standard cat calls and the dam thing jumps right onto my left shoulder/chest area and digs in with all its claws and is leaned back looking at me with its ears back and hissing like hell. Not a big deal I can't feel it through my gear, well I pet the cat to calm it which works suprisingly well. Now that it is all relaxed and just laying on me and not clawing into me, then driver decides to bed the platform from the turntable, well as soon as the platform started to move through the trees that cats attitude changed real quick, I thought I was holding the cat from the movie Pet cemetery. It started clawing my face, so I take my right hand to the back of its neck and as I am doing that it turns its head and locks onto my thumb with its mouth and it won't let go, I thought my thumb was in a vise and I could feel it bleeding through my glove along with all the blood dripping off my face. Now the cat is in ulta freak out mode and will not let go of my thumb, (my right thumb was bit off from just above the center knuckle then reattached in an unrelated incedent so there is no feeling in it). So I start to SQUEEZE the cat and move it to the floor of the platform, all the while this thing is clamping down even harder and pi$$ing all over me. Well the platform finally gets bedded and the Captain is there with a small cage to put the cat in, we jam it in the cage then he looks at my face and says *** happened, hence the preceding story. As if this isn't bad enough, I have to go to the E.R. to get checked out where it just so happens half the nurses on duty are married to guys on the job, so they tell everyone that is working in the E.R.
Well everyone had their turn coming through my room laughing and making comments like "I did not think you guys rescued cats" my reply was; we probably never will again after this report hits the chiefs desk.
7 butterfy bandages, a bandaged thumb, some very large doses of antibiotics, and 2 weeks out of work, all for a stray cat. Besides,I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree. It was keystone cops for sure on this one. Sorry for such a long post.

Totallyrad

RaaaawllllllRaaaawllllllRaaaawllllllRaaaawllllll I'm still laughing, that's a funny mental picture!!!

Taste like chicken???

Micaiahfied

i have a confession to add to shawns original story (he knows already) my friend and i arrived where we were swapping the trannies before shawn did. it had already been a trying morning (only 7am at this point) my grill which i was going to make steaks for us for lunch popped out of the truck after hitting a LARGE bump at 70mph on the interstate but thats a whole other story. so we get there and are talking and this cat comes up... i can't stand cats. i think they know, it kept rubbing against my leg, stupid thing. so i push it away it comes back, i swing my foot not trying to hit it, it runs away but comes back. ok at this point i am fed up! this time it come close enough and i kick some of the gravel drive at it BULLS EYE! nailed it. man that thing shot off like a bullet... didn't see it for the rest of the day! story over, or so i thought, till i get a PM from shawn telling me what happened!

Timberman

One sure-fire way to get the cat out of your tree is to use a load of #4's and a turkey choke. It'll come down.

My wife has two cats. Duals. I like them for the most part, but they've never clamped down on my thumb either. A biting barn cat would only be tolerated for as long as it takes to load a shell.

notomas

I was driving home from a friends house when a cat ran under my truck and got his head stuck between the duels. I tried to pull him out and he wouldn't budge. I pulled hard enough on him that something cracked and he went limp, I thought I had broke his neck, turns out he just passed out. Now I had to crawl home. (no tools in the truck, I just got it) I had just had a new fender installed from a rock going through it, and didnt want to have to buy another. I started to drive home, feeling sad about the cat when he started hollering, every time the wheel came around and thumped him on the ground.He lived for about a block or so at about 5 miles an hour. Thump raaor, thump raar,
It cost me 40$ to have the duells split and the wheel well cleaned out the next day and my girlfriend was pisssed off enough that we broke up and all the girls in town hated me all because I couldnt save the poor cat.

PanteraGSTK

WOW.....


You know all of these stories make me wonder why cat owners don't get sued and forced to put their cats down. Dog prejudice....

BigBlue

Personally, I love dogs, but I am definately a cat person. They take themselves to the bathroom, they don't beg for food at the table, they don't chew anything when they are babies, when they want attention they get it and when they've had enough they leave, they are a lot easier to have sleeping on the bed considering how small they are, they kill mice and other rodents, you can leave an entire bag of food out for them and they only eat what they want and save the rest for later unlike a dog, they aren't near as dumb as some of the dogs I've met, and I find them a lot funnier than dogs.

Begle1

But you're girlfriend is guaranteed to be allergic to cats...

Redleg

Where the heck are all the women allergic to cats?! Might not chew stuff up, but everything gets clawed apart. Nothing like finding bits of litter on the bed, step on it barefoot walking to the bathroom at night, cats on the counter with the same feet that use the litter box..... mightn not beg, but try to keep them off the table while setting dinner out and you leave the dining room for 1/2 a second.