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| Bobcat Bites Woman in Her Basement |
| 2004-03-17 |
| Well, she was running away. NARROWS, Va. -- A woman in this mountain town was attacked and bitten by a bobcat in her basement Tuesday afternoon. According to a dispatcher with the Giles County Sheriff’s Office, the woman kept a basement window open so her pet cats could come and go. The bobcat apparently climbed through the window. Pet cats, the other white meat. The woman, whose name was not released by police, went to her basement to get something out of the freezer about 3 p.m. and saw the bobcat, the dispatcher said. "Hello Kitty......oh shit!" When the woman turned to run, the bobcat jumped on her. Normal predator response to prey fleeing. The woman suffered two bites and several scratches before she got away, the dispatcher said, but her injuries were not serious. She was treated at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital. "Now, Miss, just where were you bitten?" "In my basement, see?" "And a nice round, firm basement it is." The bobcat was still in the basement when a game warden and Giles County deputies arrived. The full-grown animal was killed and turned over to the health department to be tested for rabies, the dispatcher said. (channeling muck4doo)"it her own fault leavin window open bobcat only hungry cuz people cutting down forest big tough warden killed poor cat should have been caugth and set free" A dispatcher who has worked with the sheriff’s office for more than a decade said she doesn’t recall ever getting a call about a bobcat inside someone’s home. |
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