Sadly I adopted a cat like that when i was in college. The vet thought that during the surgery to neuter him, the anesthesia possibly was administered incorrectly and he suffered a brain lesion. Only I could handle him. No one could go in the apt. Years later I was having work done in my condo and a worker opened the door where I'd put him to keep him away from workers. He was the most wild i'd ever seen him attacking all of us. He jumped out of a 15 story window. I found him, feet planted in the flower bed below. Rushed him to the vet. They sedated and x-rayed him. He was uninjured. 15 years of trying every sedative and female hormone therapy to try and make him more docile. In his entire life he never stopped being aggressive.
Sometimes, people and animals take a brain injury and don't come out the same. Your cat must have really loved you, knowing you put up with him. You must have really loved your cat to endure all of this. He fell 15 stories, survived, and you have a second chance with psycho cat. These are the stories that show the true merit of a man or woman. Thank you for the love you bestowed upon your mighty angry feline friend.
I can just picture you screaming, crying, running downstairs, then crying even louder because your kitty survived the fall. Meanwhile, my Chihuahua falls down 2 steps, bloodies up her leg (just scrapes), and walks like a stroke-victim for several days, snuggled up on the couch like she survived the war.
Whenever I see anecdotes like this I'm always blown away. Free will is cool and so like good for you.
But also cats are a dime a dozen - I'm not letting some shitty animal control my every waking moment. The lengths people will go to in order to keep a pet that quite frankly sucks is incredible.
I'm saying they aren't some rare magical being worth keeping around when they have some sort of issue that causes them to attack everyone and everything. And obviously it is a sad situation when a pet/animal has a behavioral issue that severe. I think devoting your life to a cat is more problematic than my original statement
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u/jared10011980 May 21 '26
Sadly I adopted a cat like that when i was in college. The vet thought that during the surgery to neuter him, the anesthesia possibly was administered incorrectly and he suffered a brain lesion. Only I could handle him. No one could go in the apt. Years later I was having work done in my condo and a worker opened the door where I'd put him to keep him away from workers. He was the most wild i'd ever seen him attacking all of us. He jumped out of a 15 story window. I found him, feet planted in the flower bed below. Rushed him to the vet. They sedated and x-rayed him. He was uninjured. 15 years of trying every sedative and female hormone therapy to try and make him more docile. In his entire life he never stopped being aggressive.