Black Death comes to Oregon as man is infected with plague after he is bitten trying to pry a mouse from the jaws of a stray cat

He might have been really hungry

apparently he knew the cat

[...]DeBess said it's not clear whether the man was bitten by the mouse or by the cat. The feline died, and its body has been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing. The cat was abandoned in the man's neighborhood about six years ago and stuck around. Yeargain said the man and his family had a lot of contact with it. He was bitten on the hand.

"Taking a mouse out of a cat's mouth is probably not a good idea," DeBess said.

[link to www.oregonlive.com]

Maybe the cat did the family hunting

That's right! My cats are bringing something in about every night now but as long as they completely finish it up and don't leave a mess of guts on the floor, I haven't tried to throw them - and their meal- back outside. (since I have a cat door, that's a waste of time anyway...) They may be just trying to show me how it's done. If there's blood on the floor in the morning, I clean it up with a little bleach in a spray bottle. But no matter how many times you've heard it over the years, that 'crunching' when they chew them up is still gag-inducing, isn't it?

Plague is usually spread by the fleas on rodents, not by the cat eating a rodent. Hanta virus is a concern, if you have a heavy mice or rat infestation and their urine is around, which is where the virus lurks. I lived in north AZ when that was a serious scare - but it was also right after a very bad year for rodent infestations. You definitely want cats when you live in the country here in the Southwest. They keep the mice population down and since snakes eat mice, you won't find them hanging around as much either.

Sorry that stupid hippie got sick but it was his own fault. I feed my cats far better than I can feed myself but I'd still not interfere with them keeping their hunting skills sharp. They need those skills for their own survival just as the wiser of us humans, even if we don't prefer meat eating, ought to be learning them also.

You answered your own question the hippie liberal in Oregon probably thought it was the right thing to do because the cat is bigger than the mouse and was bullying it.

Last Edited by Red Harvest on 06/14/2012 03:02 PM

Don't be mean guys...
Good luck to him.

Bath Salts

dang!

They really suck at giving us a believable store.

story.

so who did he think he was saving, the cat or the mouse?

maybe he was some obnoxious fuckin' veggie who thought the cat should put down the mouse and pick up a nice fuckin' carrot...

He pried one of those out of a seals mouth last month...

'plague season' I can envision the commercials to come:

"Plague got ya down? Tired of waking up with blood pouring from your eyes? Then try Thera-plague...by the makers of Thera-flu. The only product guaranteed to get rid of those pesky plague symptoms"

gotta love the witticisms

was his name Bloomberg?

The Disney Rat loving Comminist scriptmakers are the culprit !

The Cat is the Fall guy when in fact the cat is the hero that rids off us of sickness and decay !

Screw PETA for that also !

hate to the RAT lovers !

It's like they're letting them all out one at a time!

Remember the 21 yr old girl who was bitten by a brown recluse spider? A "talcum powder" incident with an Indianapolis McDonald's employee suffering from a swollen head?

Things that make you go ...

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I'm thinking the cat was on bath salts.

I mean, what other explaination could there be?

the man's neice explains what happened in the comments section at the link..

[link to www.ktvz.com]

the cat had something stuck in it's throat that he was trying to remove that they thought may have been a mouse.

Last Edited by RTS REDUX on 06/14/2012 04:07 PM

I bet both the cat and the mouse were naked too.

For what it's worth:

[link to www.taosnews.com]

This just came up the other day, first thing I thought of when I saw this thread, This is here in NE New Mexico.

This is soo biizzaaarrr.

I did not know the 'plague' made you BLEED from every orifice! I thought that was Ebola.

Having said that there was an outbreak or Haemorhagic Fever reported in Iran not too long ago of like 7 people who had died from it so now I am wondering if they are 'letting' it spread.

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No STRAY cat with a mouse in its face is even going to let you get near it's ass nevermind let you take it's kill ..your ass would be shreaded befor you got it that's for sure.

Now we'll be injecting our kids with the plague vaccine.

After we're all dead, a group of people or a government releasing the plague into the population will be written in history as a man saved a dying mouse, thus we all died.

If that's true, we owe the hippie an apology. What he did was an act of mercy.
I didn't think Oregon as a very likely place for a disease like this one. All the cases I've ever heard of in the States have been in warmer climates, like here in the Southwest.

thanks, now it makes sense.

Not to me...when a cat is choking the proper response is to laugh...









:Nelsonhaha49823:

it's doubtful that he's a hippie since his son claims he's a veteran and the VA turned him away for care when he became ill..and yea, plague does seem to be sort of rare for that area

plague map [link to www.cdc.gov]

yea ,what would make you get involved with that ... good lesson here .

no good deed goes unpunished...
poor guy, I hope he lives thru it.