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Humans only lose these fights out of fear. The damage to you is superficial. One successful move from you can end the life of a rat or cat. The animals that at
by corethree 3y ago
Humans only lose these fights out of fear. The damage to you is superficial. One successful move from you can end the life of a rat or cat.
The animals that attack do so at great risk. The animals who run, which is what most animals do is the more logical and ,evolutionarily speaking, successful move.
- Teever 3y agoBut for what purpose? With many feral/semi-feral cats it would be a pyrrhic victory. How many times do you want to explain to people that you're blind in one eye because of a vicious barn cat?
- corethree 3y agoMost animals run. If an animal attacks it's likely to be rabies.
- dylan604 3y agoOr just defending itself when the human is trying to trap it.
- corethree 3y agorunning is the best defense. You don't get it, if an animal kills a human it's hunted and put down. Natural selection has already done it's work so that most animals run. There are pockets of the world where animals don't run. This is in remote places where humans rarely ever set foot. Islands and such. One prominent example are penguins at the south pole. They don't run.
- dylan604 3y agoYou're acting like we're all out on the Savanah hunting a wild predator animal. Just trying collecting a cat to put in a carrier that's just not interested in that. The longer you try, the more upset it will get. It doesn't have to be a cat that doesn't know you.
- corethree 3y agoIf you corner it of course it has no choice. But in general it runs first before it attacks. Attacking is a move of last resort.
- Teever 3y agoHave you ever actually interacted with a barn cat?
- david-gpu 3y ago> The damage to you is superficial A bite is not superficial and thus much more likely to lead to an infection, which in turn can finish you through septic shock. It is not the cat I fear, but their microscopic allies.
- corethree 3y agoHmm. How common is this. Like out of 100 people who get bitten and no medical treatment what happens if they don't get medical treatment? I'm guessing less than one person dies. And less than 1 gets sick.