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Judge Spares Life of Lewis the Cat Tuesday, June 20, 2006 By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press Writer
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A state judge on Tuesday spared the life of Lewis the cat, whose vicious attacks on neighbors landed his owner in court, but the terrorizing tomcat was ordered confined to the house at all times.
"There are no exceptions. None,"Judge Patrick Carroll told Lewis'owner, Ruth Cisero.
If Lewis gets out, even accidentally, Cisero could face up to 6 months in prison, and Lewis'fate would be in the hands of animal control officers.
Cisero had faced a charge of reckless endangerment because neighbors complained that the gray and white cat's long claws and stealth had allowed it to attack at least a half-dozen people. Some who were bitten and scratched ended up seeking treatment at hospitals.
The judge ordered Cisero to complete two years of probation, after which her record will be expunged.
Cisero had fought to keep Lewis, and rejected a previous probation deal because it was contingent on euthanizing the cat.
"I never thought it would come to this,"she said."It's been an absolute nightmare. It's ruined my life."
The cat's case has drawn national attention, with Lewis appearing in People magazine and on his own page on MySpace.com. A Utah animal sanctuary offered to take the cat, but Eugene Riccio, Cisero's attorney, said Lewis enjoys life in southern New England and wants to stay.
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"...and ambush the Avon cosmetics lady as she got out of her car on her neighborhood rounds."
I love it! Good boy, Lewis!
Avon calling..... Ahhhhhhhh.....
"Janet Kettman, one of Lewis" victims, has previous said she and her neighbors on Sunset Circle are always looking over their shoulders in fear the ******* (S T A L K E R) will strike again."
"He attacks from the back," Kettman said. "You never see it coming. He has six toes on every foot, which constitutes a very formidable weapon."
Hmm, how did Kettman count those toes?
"He will not retreat," Kettman said. "His mouth is open and his tail is swishing."
Get 'em Lewis, get 'em!
"Also, he gives out mixed signals," Kettman continued. "He would sidle against you and purr. You bend down to pet him and he'd attack you."
Stupid! Do not pet the damn cat! What an idiot!
"Lewis was put on the antidepressant Prozac, but his owner was worried and took him off it because he became too sleepy."
There you go! This is not the fault of Lewis. Damn doctors turned him into a psycho by dosing him with psychotropic drugs.
Those doctors should be locked in a room with Lewis for a day.
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Cisero had faced a charge of reckless endangerment because neighbors complained that the gray and white cat's long claws and stealth had allowed it to attack at least a half-dozen people. Some who were bitten and scratched ended up seeking treatment at hospitals.
that sounds expensive????
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According to an article in the Star-Telegram, one day last week, in one oof the city's suburbs, a woman who was out walking a dog was attacked by a house cat and very severely hurt.
I've never known of a cat that "knowingly" and "willingly" (how can one figure what a cat knows or intends) attacked a human other than in trying to defend itself. (Except the monster black cat that lives in my house and likes to spring from hiding to attack the huge rat that feeds him. One day, I sware........!!!!)
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I would bet a silver dollar this Janet Kettman is the instigator of all this. Lewis The Tomcat is the victim!
I have a Rentlentless video in my head. Lewis cruises the neighborhood, pissing on bushes, pissing on doors, pissing on tires, digging neat little holes which he covers, and old lady Janet Kettman comes out, yells at him, waves her hands, chases after him.
Kettman trains Lewis those two legged animals are very dangerous. I would bet in every case people approached Lewis. I simply refuse to believe a tomcat would stalk people. That is not an instinctive trait. No doubt in my mind these people somehow caused Lewis to feel cornered and he came out fighting.
I don't know. Maybe his loving owner taught Lewis to be an attack cat.
Behavior described is inconsistent with natural behavior of a domestic cat, even a wild cat.
We have two wildcats which have adopted us. Took us three years just to get them to a point they will come inside our house. One will allow us to pet her, inside our house. Outside, we cannot come within fifty feet of either cat.
I can just hear old lady Kettman in court describing how Lewis the Tomcat leapt from a tree, knocked her down, did a chainsaw routine all over her body, grabbed her by the neck like a Las Vegas show cat, then dragged her up the tree to eat her. Wasn't for a passing by friendly pit bull, she would be dead, for sure.
I would bet she suffered minor teeth puncture wounds, a few scratches from trying to grab Lewis to choke him to death for his pissing on her front yard daisies.
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I have never cared much for cats...scared to death of them...they are sneaky... but it has always PO'd me that cats are allowed to roam...and poop in your garden and climb on your car and kill the birds that come to bathe in your bird bath, and holy crap...if it's mating...scare your kids to death with their noise (OK..maybe i am just jealous on that one)...and there isn't squat done to the owner... I had a neighbor's cat that kept coming over and getting into my yard trying to "kill" our pet rabbits...I sprayed the thing with water several times...asked the neighbor to please keep it out of my yard...well...the next simmer...our rabbit was in it's fenced in area running around...and the cat came and attacked the rabbit (yes the rabbit died)..this was in front of my kids...I ended up catching the cat..put it in my rabbits cage and carried the dead rabbit to my neighbor along with the cat in the cage...
Knocked on the door... Handed her the paper bag with the dead rabbit...and said "go ahead look in there"...she did..she gasped...i then handed her the cat in the cage and told her...if i see your cat in my yard again...I will bring it to you in a paper bag! Never saw the cat outside again...
I hate cats...BUT..I now live in the country..and took in a kitten that I found on the side of the road...I have 5 LARGE dogs...when we decided to keep her...we had to figure out a name...care to guess what her name is? Dogchow...
Damn cat comes when i call it...walks the kids to the bus and listens better than any of the kids...kinda cool...but i still wouldn't let her roam in the city...
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My pet Bavarian boar Ludwig once attacked a young Mormon prostelyte who came knocking on my door. Ludwig became seething mad when he saw his navy blue suit, and he scurried up the young man's legs and took a chunk of skin out of his left testicle.
The young Mormon was quite upset, so I brought him inside. I had Ludwig fetch him a cold Heineken and we watched "Black Booty Bandits Part 4" together. We never did get to the purpose of his call, but the young Mormon left with a smile on his face. I later discovered that navy blue makes Ludwig violent.
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Well, that could be the case. But as it turned out, the young Mormon had his pen*s ensconced in a jellyroll, which sent Ludwig racing for his crotch. I suppose the jellyroll thing is religious tradition for young Mormons, that's the only explination I could arrive at.
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Plenty of dogs I can't stand... what gets me with the cats...is that "typical laws" are not geered towards the cats or the owners...and many people have them...and just let them roam...it isn't really the cats...it's the owners... Just as with your experience with the dogs was in part the owners fault
Cats smarter than dogs?...well...matter of opinion...kinda like saying men are smarter than women...pretty much would depend on the man or the woman...
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At the corner store, her momma had the brood assembled, plainly imploring, "Give us food, or take one of these offa my hands."
So I took the solid black one. "Riverside Blacks" are a *breed* (spare the obvious jokes) proven to the best mousers almost anywhere. Best example? Younger, I temporarily lived in Arkansas--again, spare the obvious--but came home to visit and picked up the first in a long line of stray, black cats. Named him Almanac. Long story short, he whupped a big ol' thang that was apparently half-lynx, half-feral housecat. Nearly killed him, but he won--against a "beast" that scared dogs offa their feed bowls. High honors...
Since then? All such kitties inherit the title: this one is Almanac VI...
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My cat rules the halls of my condo. Even the big black dog with the deep bark that scares all the neighbors when he walks through whines when my cat is in the hall. We had to take his front claws out for safety reasons(not something I wanted to do) but he still knows how to kick some *ss!
Just last month they had that story on the news of the cat who had treed a black bear. That would be like my boy...he has no fear whatsoever. Just gotta know him enough to know when he wants love and when he's feeling ornery.
My wife wasn't terribly happy with him at first but once we got all the knick-knacks stuck down with quake proof tack she warmed up to him.
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I must live in a low rent state, Bigfoot around here lives in a tree. Don't know tho, he might pay the USFD some kind of pay to hike, or maybe roaming charges for his cell phone.
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quote:Originally posted by Dustoff101: I must live in a low rent state, Bigfoot around here lives in a tree. Don't know tho, he might pay the USFD some kind of pay to hike, or maybe roaming charges for his cell phone.
I thought only chupacabras lived in trees? BTW WB Dusty!
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here's a dog that's not all bravado.... this one looks almost exactly like mine.... but mine will run to 150lbs full grown... this one is about 85 pounds... NoNoBaddog weighs over 100lbs already and he was born Nov 29 '05 this is Jeane Claude, a Red Wheaten, Liver Nose Rhodesian Ridgeback
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