Ferocious Felines Flay Family
House cats gone wild in North Platte, Nebraska! The Animal Uprising™ has unleashed it's feline storm troopers on the hapless citizens in that historic location*. Yes, the feline berserkers have taken up home invasion. With intent.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Two stray cats attacked three people after they got into a house in North Platte. "I thought I had seen it all, but I have never seen anything like this," Chief of Police Martin Gutschenritter said Tuesday. A call for help Monday took animal control officer John Pettit to the home of Melissa Breva, Gutschenritter said. Breva told Pettit she had captured two cats in a bedroom.
"She said the cats had gotten into the house when the front door was open," Gutschenritter said, then attacked two women who were visiting Breva.
One, Wendy Holliday, suffered scratches, the chief said, and she was bitten on both ankles, both knees and on her left calf.
"She told the officer it happened when the two cats entered the residence and attacked her for no reason," Gutschenritter said.
The other woman, Rebecca Cheever, was bitten on the right calf.
After talking to the women, Pettit went to his truck for snares — his "cat catchers."
Then he heard screaming from inside the house.
"When he ran back, he saw a young male with blood over his face," Gutschenritter said.
The two ferocious feline commandos were taken into custody and shot as illegal combatants, in strict accordance with the Geneva Conventions. Folks in North Platte know how to deal with the Animal Uprising™ and apparently are quite willing to do so.
* If you are not aware of the history of North Platte, Nebraska, you should be. The residents there ran a canteen to greet the troop trains moving American soldiers across the country. They met every, single train and greeted and fed the men all through the Second World War. They did it voluntarily, they did it for no charge whatsoever and the did it without asking for any thanks or assistence from the government. The Union Pacific Railroad has a lot of pictures of the canteen's years of operation. There's one that shows an older local woman, Lyda Swenson, presenting a cake to a black soldier. They saw American soldiers - and they cared for them. Without charge. Throughout the entire war.
