That reminds me of an equally funny story from years ago, this time a medical emergency.
“Cat mauls man while he bathed parrot
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Four carloads of police, two ambulances and an animal-control officer were needed to control a cat that mauled an elderly man.
The commotion was so great that police responded in force because they thought they were dealing with a domestic dispute, said Marc Gaudreau, a spokesman for the Trois-Rivières-Ouest public security department.
Touti, the caramel-coloured feline, cornered Gerard Daigle and Francine Gagnon, both in their 80s, in their bathroom.
The cat was spooked by water when Mr. Daigle turned on the shower to bathe his bird, an animal-control officer said yesterday.
Guy Theriault, who captured the pugnacious pussy, said the cat was scared and reacted with force.
"It was scared of the water," he said. "It felt threatened."
Mr. Theriault noted that cats put up a horrific fight when they're cornered, and will twist and turn to fight off any attacker.
"They're very agile and very fast. You don't have much of a chance."
Mr. Daigle was jumped by the cat on Tuesday, just after he had given his parrot a shower.
Hearing her husband's cries, Ms. Gagnon beat the adult cat off him with a broom as it clawed him in several places, inflicting deep scratches, which needed stitches. She also had some scratches.
The couple barricaded the bathroom door with a broom and cowered there until help arrived at their apartment in this community that's halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.
"I saved Gerard," a shaken Ms. Gagnon said of her spouse. "Otherwise he'd be dead."
The cat, which weighed about four kilograms, was put down, and an autopsy was being done by Agriculture Canada. Mr. Theriault, however, said it was unlikely the cat suffered from any illness.
Mr. Theriault acknowledged that while his office responds to about four such calls a year, he had never seen such an extreme reaction: "There was lots of blood, lots in the bathroom, on the floor."”