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  • Cat Traps Family in Home, Dad Calls 911

    “Yeah, hi, I have kind of a particular emergency here.”

    On Sunday evening in Portland, Oregon, an emergency dispatcher received a call that perhaps she had never received before.

    Lee Palmer, local father, called 911 to report that the family cat had gone berserk and attacked his 7-month old son. Upset over the incident, Palmer had kicked the cat in the rear end, sending the cat into a deeper realm of crazy. Palmer, along with his wife, child, and dog, retreated to the bedroom where they were then trapped by the frantic feline.

    “I kicked the cat in the rear, and it has gone over the edge,” he told the dispatcher.

    According to the Oregonian, Palmer had first tried to call animal services about Lux, the 22-pound Himalayan, but that didn’t work.

    When asked by the 911 dispatcher if the baby needed medical attention, Palmer said that he only suffered “very small puncture wounds” on his head. But that wasn’t the pressing problem.

    “We’re trapped in the bedroom, he won’t let us out of our door … He’s very, very, very, very hostile.

    “He’s kind of a violent cat already … he’s charging us, he’s at our bedroom door,” Palmer said, then asked, “Do you hear him?”

    “Yeah, yeah, I hear him,” said the dispatcher, who remained professional despite the odd circumstance. “I know it’s kind of scary, let’s just try to stay as calm as we can, OK?”

    The frightened father asked if the cops could come and the dispatcher put him on hold while she asked her boss if it’s “okay” to call the police about this kind of incident. When her boss approved, Palmer seemed relieved.

    “Tell them to be careful, the police,” he meekly laughed.

    Once the police entered the apartment at The Yards at Union Station on the Northwest side of the city, the large cat ran into the kitchen and jumped on the top of the refrigerator. Using a dog snare, the officers caught the cat and put him in a pet carrier. Fortunately, no one else was injured.

    Sergeant Pete Simpson later said that while angry dogs are common he couldn’t recall another incident involving a hostile feline in his 20 years on the force.

    “The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city,” the police said in a press release on Monday.

    “We are debating what to do,” Palmer said. “We definitely want to keep (the cat) away from the baby and keep an eye on his behavior.

    “I swear I have never seen anything like it.”

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  • Cat Attacks Baby and Traps Family in Bedroom

    When a 22-pound cat trapped a family in their bedroom and wouldn’t let them out, you have to laugh at the absurdity of the entire event. Apparently, a Portland, Oregon family decided the feline was threatening enough to place a call to 911.

    It happened about 8 pm (PST) on Sunday night, when the cat who is known as Lux, had scratched their baby, forcing the family and a dog to barricade themselves inside a bedroom, CBS reported.

    The family called 911 Sunday night and said that the cat had them cornered because the cat was upset with the family, and admitted that the baby’s father hit the cat after it scratched the baby.

    Lee Palmer, the cat’s owner, told 911 operators that the baby didn’t need medical attention.

    The mother of the scratched baby said, “Every time we opened our back bedroom door, the cat would hiss.”

    On the 911 call, Palmer tells the dispatcher he kicked the cat “in the rear” to protect his child. Palmer says the animal then “just went off over the edge” — leading Palmer and his girlfriend to barricade themselves, their baby, and the family dog in the bedroom for safety.

    On the call, the cat can be heard screeching in the background of the call as Palmer says in a panicked voice: “He’s charging us. He’s at our bedroom door.” Palmer also tells the dispatcher the cat has been violent in the past.

    What is most astonishing about this event is that police were actually dispatched to the home, and they showed up. When they came into the home, the cat was hiding on top of the refrigerator.

    Officers used a dog snare to capture the animal, and placed it in a crate.

    The 4-year-old part-Himalayan cat owner said he’s taking the feline to a veterinarian. A pet psychologist also is due at the house to see the cat.

    “We’re not getting rid of him right now,” Palmer said. “He’s been part of our family for a long time.”

    The police issued a release about the incident that said in part, “The cat remained behind bars in the custody of the family and officers cleared the scene and continued to fight crime elsewhere in the city.”

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