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Husband threw cat after scratch

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Friarclose · 19/08/2024 21:36

Tonight while trying to hold her still for a flea treatment, our cat severely scratched DH, drawing blood. DHs immediate kneejerk reaction was to throw the cat to the floor, hard. She missed the corner of a wooden table by about 4 inches.

DH is fuming that my only reaction was to scream at him for throwing her and not caring that he was bleeding. I know he was hurt but to throw her like that???

AIBU? was it just a reaction to being hurt or would other people put the cat down carefully regardless of being hurt? I'm really upset 😡

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GhastlyOldFossil · 19/08/2024 21:40

Cat scratches can be really painful, it sounds like a knee jerk reaction.

TartanJambo · 19/08/2024 21:40

No, I don't think that's a normal reaction at all. Swiping your hand away, maybe pushing the cat off your lap? As knee jerk reactions.
But to physically throw a cat hard on the ground? Nope. I wouldn't say that's a normal reaction. His instinct was to hurt the cat because the cat hurt him...

vodkaredbullgirl · 19/08/2024 21:40

What a wuss, you would put the cat down and not throw the cat on the floor.

Shade17 · 19/08/2024 21:39

Sounds like an instinctive reaction to the pain to me.

Overtheatlantic · 19/08/2024 21:39

He’s an asshole. I have nothing else to say except that my husband would be shown the door. Violence towards animals is Never acceptable. She must have been terrified.

ComtesseDeSpair · 19/08/2024 21:39

Unless he’s usually impatient and cruel around her, which presumably would have been an issue raised before now, I’d accept that it’s just an involuntary reflex to pain. If you touch a hot surface you don’t actively “think” about recoiling; your hand just reflexively does it. I suspect this was much the same. The cat will be fine, they’re hardy creatures.

Flossyts · 19/08/2024 21:39

Nope, I’d probably drop the cat. If I’m honest I couldn’t promise I wouldn’t drop a child.

Its a jerk reaction to pain- I think you’re being quite hard on him.

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