A 22-pound Himalayan cat held an Oregon family hostage after attacking their seven-month-old baby and forcing them to call 911.
Lee Palmer, the owner of the cat Lux, said the feline scratched his baby son Jesse after the infant pulled its tail. Lee then kicked Lux's rear. This angered the pet and trapped the family and their pet dog in bedroom.
Palmer called 911 for help. "We're trapped in the bedroom, he won't let us out of our door," Palmer told 911, The Oregonian newspaper reports. "I kicked the cat in the rear, and it has gone over the edge. He's trying to attack us -- he's very hostile. He's at our door; he's charging us," he said. He said the cat scratched his baby's forehead adding that Lux had a "history of violence."
"He hit our door, our bedroom door. Did you hear him scream? That was the cat," he told the emergency service dispatcher about the 4-year-old male cat.
After the officers equipped with a dog snare arrived, they saw the cat storming into the kitchen and jumping on top of the refrigerator.
The rescue team then carefully captured the cat and put it into the dog house."We are debating what to do," Palmer said Monday. "We definitely want to keep (the cat) away from the baby and keep an eye on his behavior."
"I swear I have never seen anything like it," Palmer said.
The family, however, decided to keep the cat with themselves. "I've raised him since he was a baby," Teresa Barker, the mother of the baby said.
"He attacked our baby, so we got a bit of adrenalin rush. If you had a cat and you had a baby... I assure you, you'd do the same thing. We were worried about the baby; we could've cared less how the cat felt."
"We gotta watch the cat around the baby" she added.
