CAT SAVAGELY ATTACKS ROSAMOND RESIDENT.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Kern County authorities are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a gray house cat that attacked a Rosamond man so viciously he needed hospital treatment - and now faces rabies rabies (rā`bēz, ră`–) or hydrophobia (hī'drəfō`bēə), acute viral infection of the central nervous system in dogs, foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats, and other animals, and in shots if the animal is not found. Michael Davis, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, said the cat jumped at his face as he stepped into his darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. garage Tuesday night, and continued to bite and claw him as they tumbled into the house and back out to the garage. ``I thought it was a bobcat bobcat: see lynx. bobcat Bobtailed, long-legged North American cat (Lynx rufus) found in forests and deserts from southern Canada to southern Mexico. It is a close relative of the lynx and caracal. ,'' said Davis, 47, whose arms were bandaged Wednesday from fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. to elbow, one arm in a sling. ``I never saw a domestic cat that acted like that.'' Davis said the attack finally stopped after he hit the cat several times with a small electric fan in the bathroom, then smashed its head three or four times against a washing machine in the garage. All he could think about was getting the cat out of the house to protect his wife, who has cancer, he said. ``He kept it up and kept it up and kept it up, until the very end,'' Davis said. At one point in the bathroom, the cat jumped onto the counter and leapt at him again, Davis said. From the paw prints it left, the cat had been sitting on his car hood when he stepped into the garage to do laundry, Davis said. He said he never saw it before it jumped him, and just barely had time to put up an arm to shield his face. It probably entered through the garage door, left partly open for the family cat, he said. When deputies arrived after Davis' wife called 911, they said they found him lying on the garage floor, barely conscious and wounded on his arms and hands. Blood was splattered splat·ter v. splat·tered, splat·ter·ing, splat·ters v.tr. To spatter (something), especially to soil with splashes of liquid. v.intr. around the garage, and a gray cat was lying on the floor near the washer and dryer in a pool of blood. Deputies put a large box on the cat, but when an animal-control officer tried to snare snare (snar) a wire loop for removing polyps and tumors by encircling them at the base and closing the loop. snare n. the animal to take it away, it fought back violently and escaped. Deputies and the animal-control officer searched neighboring yards around Davis' home in the 1400 block of Burlington Court but couldn't find the animal. ``We're concerned about the cat and the possibility of it having rabies,'' Deputy D. Thompson said. Anyone who sees the cat should call Kern County animal control at (805) 824-4464, deputies said. |
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