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| Bobcat Bites Woman in Her Basement |
| 2004-03-17 |
| Well, she was running away. NARROWS, Va. -- A woman in this mountain town was attacked and bitten by a bobcat in her basement Tuesday afternoon. According to a dispatcher with the Giles County Sheriff’s Office, the woman kept a basement window open so her pet cats could come and go. The bobcat apparently climbed through the window. Pet cats, the other white meat. The woman, whose name was not released by police, went to her basement to get something out of the freezer about 3 p.m. and saw the bobcat, the dispatcher said. "Hello Kitty......oh shit!" When the woman turned to run, the bobcat jumped on her. Normal predator response to prey fleeing. The woman suffered two bites and several scratches before she got away, the dispatcher said, but her injuries were not serious. She was treated at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital. "Now, Miss, just where were you bitten?" "In my basement, see?" "And a nice round, firm basement it is." The bobcat was still in the basement when a game warden and Giles County deputies arrived. The full-grown animal was killed and turned over to the health department to be tested for rabies, the dispatcher said. (channeling muck4doo)"it her own fault leavin window open bobcat only hungry cuz people cutting down forest big tough warden killed poor cat should have been caugth and set free" A dispatcher who has worked with the sheriff’s office for more than a decade said she doesn’t recall ever getting a call about a bobcat inside someone’s home. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #11 try using the gerund form of nouns M4D is doing God's English teacher work. I had to google Gerund. I hope Shamu is mercy showin. I still can't quite grasp it... SH of course has been of the watch list from Day 1. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-17 6:44:12 PM |
| #10 1)Years from now her children will be able to tell their children,"you think this is tough,when I was a kid we had to fight bobcats just to get icecream from freezer." 2)Just another advantage to modern medicine-asking Mother Nature to do a liposuction hurts too much. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-3-17 6:28:21 PM |
| #9 haha very funy. angie im not talk about chainey right now cuz i have source that tell me he currently working on new deth star just beyond our solar sistem. i will get back to you on that when more detail come known. also sometime if animal is rabie it more humane to kill it nad cuz it make other animal rabie as well. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-3-17 5:29:31 PM |
| #8 Around here, it's foxes that kill cats, but usually only small, young ones. As I've said before, animals are adjusting to living among humans, and we'll see more and more "wildlife" adapting to city living. Once they do, it'll be our turn to adapt. They do help to keep down the mice and other small rodents (squirrels are becoming a MAJOR pest) that also inhabit the local area. I have no qualms with it, as long as both the local animals and the humans that live in the area both are aware of each other, and have established a wary truce where we all just leave the other side alone. Sounds like the bobcat followed Fifi home, and decided to take up more permanent residence, only to be surprised to find (gasp!) Humans living in the same area. The ones that survive will learn NOT to enter open windows. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-3-17 3:05:04 PM |
| #7 LOL Steve.... you're on the M4D watch list... that was a little too good. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-17 12:38:38 PM |
| #6 "Bobcats - Why do They Hate Us?" |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-3-17 12:14:05 PM |
| #5 Angie, I think we have more to worry about in teh animal kingdon. Kangaroos are now getting uppity. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-17 12:05:45 PM |
| #4 And you didn't say anything about Chainey. I don't know about in Virginny, but in my neck of the woods bobcats were not that large. One would be damned lucky to take down something the size of an adult human. You'd think it would be more afraid of her. Maybe it was rabid. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-3-17 11:54:10 AM |
| #3 Steve, try using the gerund form of nouns to logically assault the reader in mid sentence. It adds a fingernail down the blackboard for any reader that was not a recipient of a social promotion out of 3rd grade. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-17 11:42:54 AM |
| #2 Pretty close, Steve, but your spelling was too good... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-3-17 11:14:27 AM |
| #1 The "oh shit" syndrome indeed... Maybe he was just lookin' for the litterbox? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-3-17 10:58:31 AM |