YouTube Video Short Circuited Cat

by Paula
(Fort Collins, CO)

This morning I played a video in which a kitty was making a very distressful, horrid meowing. Within one meow both of our cats were up the stairs and by the 2nd horrid meow they completely freaked out.

The big one attacked my arm, which was unfortunately near the computer (frantically trying to stop the video). When he quit attacking me he immediately went after our younger cat, knocking down lamps, tables and going crazy.

I managed to lock them in separate parts of the house and decided, after a few hours, they could come together again. Big mistake.

The little one started fighting, too and when I got him into the basement and slammed the door, the big one attacked me again. After I got him off my leg (which was pouring blood) he had me "cornered" and was in a crouch, ears back, hissing and growling. I got a squirt bottle and backed him off. Within a minute or two I was able to lock him in a room.

After a visit to urgent care for my shredded limbs and some antibiotics and sedatives and some mild sedative spray for the cats, things might be getting better. We're thinking of letting them see each other again this evening. They both seem a little calmer now (it's been 4-5 hours).

I sincerely hope this didn't cause any serious harm to the boys. They've lived together in great harmony for five years and I'm distressed to think a minute of some stupid online video might have destroyed their togetherness. Probably not, but very sad.

The point of this is to be very careful what you expose your kitties to. It NEVER would have occurred to me that something like this could have happened. Has anybody else ever experienced anything like it?