Have you ever been bitten by a cat?

i was just bitten by my unnewtered male cat and he broke the skin bad,had to spend 5 days in hospital, now i have 3 wks of being at home doing my own IV's

8 years ago, I was a new vet tech and holding a cat for a water enema. The cat had enough and reached up with its back claws and dug them into my hand, forcing me to let go. He then turned around and proceeded to bite my hand 6 times. It HURT! It swelled up twice it's normal size and turned beet red. I had to go on antibiotics for 2 weeks, and hold it up in the air as much as possible to prevent excruciating throbbing. Needless to say, I have gotten better at restraint, but they're so fast, it takes you by surprise sometimes. I also got bit once by my own cat, Cajun, while anesthetizing him for a dental...it was just a graze but it hurt too!

I was bitten by Muffin 3 different times when she had the last UTI trying to pill her. All three times I washed the wounds with hot soapy water and poured hydrogen peroxide on them and I never had a problem. Muffin has not been declawed and has been sprayed.

I was bitten by Izzie's mother but it was partially my fault. She was a stray cat who had a litter of kittens and my sister was fostering them in her house. Two days after the cat was in the house, I fed a piece of ham lunchmeat to the cat from my hand. This cat was used to being outside and hunting it's own food. When I wiggled my thumb, the cat bit into it. I think the cat thought my hand was food for some reason. Otherwise, the cat was very friendly and showed no signs of aggression. Anyway, it hurt really bad and within 2 hours the entire thumb was red and swollen. I went to the doctor and got a shot.

I've been bitten by my own cats alot. the worse time was when my 10 month old Siamese slipped out the door on to my porch which at the time was apartment shared by another neighbor. Just as I was getting my cat back the neighbor opened the door and out ran his big Greman Shepard. Well no way was I going to let go of my cat.. She was terrified and she dug my whole chest up and I had at least 15 puncture bites through my hands. I got her inside. And did it hurt I was shaking it hurt so bad. I had to go to the ER for a tetnus shot and to get the bites cleaned and on antibiotics.
I had a male neutered tiger cat who was a lovey cat. But boy he had a mean streak also, he would just bite for no reason.When I least expected it. I ended up with a few infected cat bites from him . Hadto spend 3 days in the hospital once on IV antibiotics.
And I have been bitten a few other times by My Siamese Yowdy hes also neutored. He does give a warning a ugly meowww but I wasn't fast enough and he got me. I love siamese cats but I have found that they often have a kinda mean streak at times. You have to be aware of it and treat them accordling.

I was fostering a semi feral girl Jill, who clawed me up and bit me. Each time, I was either trying to get her in the cat carrier or giving her worm medicine. She got dh once, too, when he held her for me so I could worm her.

I listed it as a feral bite, because it was due to her wildness in not trusting us, and our ignorance in realizing she would think her life was threatened and fight back. I didn't get an infection, she was spayed and not declawed.

I think I got bit by a cat as a child when I tried to break up a cat fight. Duh! That time, I went to the doctor and got a tetanus shot.

Although Jill and I had a few bad moments, over all she was the gentlest sweetest cat. And as soft as a bunny. She ended up being easy to crate (after feeding her in a cat carrier for months.) And I learned to worm her by mixing the medicine in her food!

A tiny , maybe 6 week old kitten that I found in my garden. When I coaxed it to some warm milk ...I reached down and picked it up. I NEVER KNEW SOMTHING SO TINY COULD HURT SOOOOO BAD! It felt like a thousand needles piercing my finger...and it would`nt let go til I shook it off. Boy did that finger bleed and get sore!
Poor kitty was just so scared. (I found the whole litter within a few hours...no mamma...so I do think someone dropped them off.)
They did tame up within a few days of being fed and we found homes for all of them except the one we kept. (Which happened to be the one that had bitten me! We named him Jaws)
Linda

I have a couple of times my female cat bites me... hehehe coz that is also becoz i am trying to wash the (Backside) due to some POO stick on the fur... and I can't stand that they are try to dirty my floor as whereever there are sitting ... so when I hold 4 legs and my wife wash their (backside) they will bite me sometimes... But that wasn't so serious...

Anyother things is my FEMALE CAT (LADY) whenever I try to feed her dewormed pills with my hand i sure will get a few bite gifts from her hehehe...

Well, my cat Perla bites me on the nose as a way of demostrating her love. She's never broken through skin though, but sometimes she gets so exited she does hurt me. Other times I'm playing and I bite her, so I think I deserve it.

Pokemon has bitten me hard a few times, and when it was in the leg he did break the skin. He was my b/f's cat, and whenever I had no clothes or bedclothes on, he'd attack. I never found out why. As soon as he saw naked skin, he'd hit, hard and fast.

I've been bitten hard by strays too, but thats part of the hazard of loving cats. I go to the doctor stright away (he's about 2 minutes from home) and get antibiotics and stuff.

I was bitten theis past year by a freinds cat, it was sitting on my lap playing with the dogs tail and all of a suddeen I think it caught the dogs tail went to bite it and the dog moved it's tail so the cat bit into my knee. It broke the skin with all 4 k-9 teeth and bruised all in between. I had a tetnus shot lot long befor that for another problem so I cleaned the bite out with peroxide a steryl bandage and some pollysporin, I had no reaction i'm lucky.

Mav has bitten me a few times but never hard and has never broken the skin. Jupiter only bites his food!

My husband and I adopted two Balinese sisters, Sasha and Sarah. I can't remember which one bit me. They were both psychotic. They would tear around the house, eat all of the plants, (poinsettias and others) which never bothered them. They would threaten my husband for whatever he was cooking, by getting up on the counter and attacking him. They were the most bizzare cats I have ever encountered. We finally decided that we couldn't deal with them and were returning them to the breeder. One of them retreated under the bed just before we were leaving and when I tried to retrieve her she bit my thumb. I am positive her intention was to remove it. We got her out and took them back. The next day my thumb swelled to twice its normal size and I wound up in the hospital having my thumb cut open and a huge sack of pus removed. That was 14 years ago and I still have a scar just below my thumbnail.

I had to vote "other," because I've actually been bitten many times, and for a variety of reasons (mostly my own dumb fault). I was bitten by a friend's cat who hated people; I eventually succeeded in befriending her, but it was hard work and took a lot of time, love and patience. I've been bitten by strays, ferals and sexually mature unaltered kitties while helping at a shelter. I've been bitten by my own cats, but only when they were stressed or otherwise unhappy. Yep, my shots are all up to date and I'm covered in scars!

I've had 2 bad bites, and Tybalt has had two as well. All were severe enough to warrant antibiotic therapy, and one made me lose 2 days from work!

My first bite was from a friend's cat (spayed adult female) who I was catsitting in my house. It was my fault, I admit readily; she had gone under a chair to hide and I was trying to coax her out and reached for her. She bit my right thumb HARD and within hours it was swollen three times larger than normal. It took 2 antibiotics in combination to treat this.

My second was from Ulysses, who was semi-feral when we got him and had just been neutered. He had been acting sweet and friendly, I was petting him and let my guard down and BANG he struck at me like a snake and got me on the right hand, just below my index and middle fingers. I called the doctor and she called in a rx for antibiotics for me, but they didn't work and I lost the ability to move my fingers! I went in to see her and she put me on more antibiotics, and had me soak my hand in warm water with epsom salt for 3 days. That finally worked, and everything went back to normal!

Tybalt was bitten by a feral that we were helping to socialize, a scared, newly spayed female, and again by our sweet Ulysses.

By the way, Ulysses still does bite, but not as hard or as often. He likes to play rough and sometimes forgets himself... But all you have to do to get him to be the sweetest boy on earth is hold some food. He will turn himself inside out to convince you to give him some!!!

Yes, I have been bitten once by my sweet, loving male cat. It was not his fault though. I was sitting at my desk on the computer. He tried to jump up onto the desk, lost his balance and went to fall back. Of course, out of instinct, I tried to catch him. On the way down, he caught his back foot in the top drawer and panicked with his foot being caught, and me screaming trying to catch my baby. He bit me on the top of the hand right through a vein. He ran under the bed and was totally okay, but I was standing there with spurting blood. I was crying my head off, not because of my hand, but because I thought my baby was hurt. I had to go to the ER to get it looked at and was even more upset when they had to fill out an animal bite report. I was freaking out thinking they would take him away from me. In the end, I got a tetanus shot, had it cleaned up and he was fine!!!

Originally Posted by gardenandcats

And I have been bitten a few other times by My Siamese Yowdy hes also neutored. He does give a warning a ugly meowww but I wasn't fast enough and he got me. I love siamese cats but I have found that they often have a kinda mean streak at times. You have to be aware of it and treat them accordling.

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As a meezer lover and owner of at least 4 of these wonderful cats, I have to disagree that Siamese have a mean streak. I don't think they are any more mean than any other cat when reared, socialized and raised properly. My 4 experiences with Siamese have been overwhelming loyalty, love and gentle disposition. Siamese get a bad rap and I don't like it. Our current 2 are changing a lot of our friends' minds and feelings on Siamese and it's all to the good to the point where two of our friends have gotten kittens from our breeder and my Avon lady and her 6 yr. old daughter (whom Mika absolutely adores) will be next on the list.

Ok, now I can get off my soap box.

i voted i have never been bitten hard enough to break the skin

I have been bitten a few times with the skin broken, and I've never had any infection or anything. And I was young, so I had never thought about cleaning with disinfectant or anything and everything healed quick with no problems.

Originally Posted by Yosemite

As a meezer lover and owner of at least 4 of these wonderful cats, I have to disagree that Siamese have a mean streak. I don't think they are any more mean than any other cat when reared, socialized and raised properly. My 4 experiences with Siamese have been overwhelming loyalty, love and gentle disposition. Siamese get a bad rap and I don't like it. Our current 2 are changing a lot of our friends' minds and feelings on Siamese and it's all to the good to the point where two of our friends have gotten kittens from our breeder and my Avon lady and her 6 yr. old daughter (whom Mika absolutely adores) will be next on the list.

Ok, now I can get off my soap box.

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I agree, I've had Siamese typed (not pure breed) over the years, and none have ever been mean. My Perla is noble, caring, deeply affectionate and slightly egocentrical. When I'm feeling bad she and Pooka are the first by my side, and she will top me with her nose and give me cat kisses until I start laughing. She's intelligent and beautiful. FOr those who wish for a very loyal cat I recommend a Siamese.