Joined: 12/31/69
So a cat ran on to Wrigley Field during a game last night, was chased Keystone-Cops-style by security guards, scratched and nipped its captors, and was eventually hoisted by its tail and unceremoniously lowered into the stands.
On a comment board on the Chicago Tribune's Web site, one reader wrote: "Grabbed the cat by his tail? This groundskeeper should be hung up by HIS TAIL."
Many others came to the cat grabber's defense: "He did what he had to do ... get over it."
And he's a cute Calico cat too
The Trib reader was right. May he gag on a baseball-sized fur ball! Never, ever, EVER grab a cat by the tail.
what Tom's Cat said.
Douchebag
I'm not sure that Tom's Cat can be impartial.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
Consider it kitty cat punishment for running out onto the field and disrupting the game. It's on par with a human getting hard tackled (though the human would have an additional financial penance to pay, too, at the least).
Nope. It's meanness and stupidity. No need to have done that.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
Has the guy never seen a nature show or, even, The Lion King? Isn't it common knowledge that picking up a cat behind its neck is the preferred, "approved by animal mommies the world over," method in situations like these?
What a louse. There are much better ways to pick up a cat. I can imagine that all the cat lovers in attendance let out an audible gasp when he did that.
I'm quite sure that Tom's Cat can't be impartial.
all of them highly paid arms on the field and not a one of them could take that tabby out with a fastball? all of them bats laying around and no one could drive even a single with the little meow mixer? pathetic.
Ouch! Poor cat must have been scared out of its wits.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
"all of them highly paid arms on the field and not a one of them could take that tabby out with a fastball? all of them bats laying around and no one could drive even a single with the little meow mixer? pathetic."
That's what went through my mind when I saw footage of W throwing out a first pitch.
you call dubya tabby, q? kinky.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
Well, papa, you know I thought he was a p****
Terrible. I'm just glad the cat didn't get injured. I think in most cases, a tail injury would mean the cat has to get part of their tail cut off.
That's what happened to my sister's cat when she got her tail caught in a closed door. Fortunately, it was only the tip.
yes, because the groundskeepers there have all had their hands replaced with mechanical claws that feature the same closing power as a car door.
It's extremely painful for us, too! There's a nerve that runs down the back of a cat's neck that will make them go completely limp when pressed. Mom-cats know this from instinct and that's why the little kitties don't kick up a storm when mom carries them from one place to another by the back of the neck. They can't! They've been rendered completely numb when mom takes hold there. Vets know it too and they'll pick up a fighting kitty by the scruff of the neck with one hand and the other under kitty's tush. In neither case would they consider going after the tail.
they tend to go limp when you hit them with a shovel too.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
The real outrage is Milton Bradley's batting average - .043!!!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
"they tend to go limp when you hit them"
Some, on the other hand . . .
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
Grapping a ****'s tail can also cause a great roar!
Joined: 12/31/69
Good thing it wasn't a guinea pig. If you pick a guinea pig up by the tail, it's eyes fall out.
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