Husband threw cat after scratch

[Friarclose]

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 😡

I think this would be DTFA territory for me.

My cat was a vicious thing for years but I never threw her ffs.

My partner, also a cat lover, would never have thrown her across any rooms. I'l don't think I could be with someone that did that.

Toddlers cannot hurt as badly as a cat. They don't have claws for a start.
If you hold a toddler, it won't claw further into you.
If you hold a cat that is angry, well good luck to you.

Your nephew wouldn't have continued to hurt you, a cat would. Your nephew, likely, wasn't trying to hurt you in the first place.

The man’s an idiot.
If you are doing something unpleasant to an animal with teeth and claws, then you immobilise it first. And you don’t use violence against something smaller and weaker than you, because you might seriously harm or kill it.
And if he can’t do that, then you should have been the defleaing the cat.
So next time, think ahead.

Caveman brain: Animals are dangerous threats, babies are to be protected. Which is why we generally act differently when attacked by them.

Another time wrap the cat in a towel. One hold firmly and the other do the drops on head. I use the tablets now as easier. I wrap a little tablet up in a bit of wafer thin ham and then hand feed it in to cats mouth. If my DH did that to any of my cats he'd not be sleeping in my bed tonight.

Cats can be right arseholes but they aren't doing it out of malice. Throwing your cat out of anger is just wrong, I hope he feels ashamed.
Beside if you are doing anything a cat might not like you have to be prepared for violence. An angry/scared cat is basically like an out of control miniature threshing machine!
One of mine bit clean through my thumb, nail included, after a disagreement about a worming tablet. I was so angry I pretty much ignored him for 2 days!

They're little buggers aren't they!

Mine knocked a glass vase off my fireplace and cracked my fireplace. It's marble 🙄

Another time when she was a kitten she went to jump over the back fence and I had to pull her back over by grabbing onto her back legs (she's an indoor cat.)

They're tough xx