Cat tail grab causes uproar
Cat tail grab causes uproar
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 5:44pm
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
Tom's Cat
Leading Actor Joined: 2/21/09
#2re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 6:37pmThe Trib reader was right. May he gag on a baseball-sized fur ball! Never, ever, EVER grab a cat by the tail.
#2re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 7:10pm
what Tom's Cat said.
Douchebag
#3re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 7:30pmI'm not sure that Tom's Cat can be impartial.
Yawper
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/13/04
#4re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:34pmConsider 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).
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#5re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:37pmNope. It's meanness and stupidity. No need to have done that.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#6re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:48pmHas 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?
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#7re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 8:58pm
#8re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 9:34pmWhat 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.
Tom's Cat
Leading Actor Joined: 2/21/09
#9re: Cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/22/09 at 9:54pmI'm quite sure that Tom's Cat can't be impartial.
#10cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 11:25amall 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.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#11cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 11:34amOuch! Poor cat must have been scared out of its wits.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#12cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 11:59am
"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.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#14cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:17pmyou call dubya tabby, q? kinky.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#15cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:19pm
Well, papa, you know I thought he was a p****
#16cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:25pm
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.
#17cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:31pmyes, because the groundskeepers there have all had their hands replaced with mechanical claws that feature the same closing power as a car door.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Tom's Cat
Leading Actor Joined: 2/21/09
#18cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:36pmIt'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.
#19cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:45pmthey tend to go limp when you hit them with a shovel too.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#20cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 12:53pmThe real outrage is Milton Bradley's batting average - .043!!!!!
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#21cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 2:05pm
"they tend to go limp when you hit them"
Some, on the other hand . . .
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#22cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 2:09pmGrapping a ****'s tail can also cause a great roar!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#23cat tail grab causes uproar
Posted: 4/23/09 at 3:06pmGood thing it wasn't a guinea pig. If you pick a guinea pig up by the tail, it's eyes fall out.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
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