To begin with a recent programme featured a cat who clawed a would be burglar severly in the face as he entered a window. Extraordinary? the cat has been blind from birth. The burglar was arrested at hospital with major facial injuries. Another male siamese confronted a serial rapist at his human's second story stairwell and inflicted wounds so serious the police followed a blood trail several blocks before apprehending the rapist. My own, fiercely loyal Piewacket literally had all 4 sets of claws sunk in my leg while biting and catterwalling without cause as I started to leave my apartment. A huge 200 year old oaktree came crashing down and took out the entire stairwell I was about to descend. Finally remember it was the deliberate extermination of cats as witche's familiars in europe that helped lead to a rat infestation with fleas bearing the Black Death <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />