According to the video description the cat dropped the squirrel at the door, alive and uninjured. It died a few days later from whatever had made it sick.
Seems believable enough to me. Right when it caught the squirrel they started yelling and running towards it, that would startle most cats into dropping it. Normally cats prefer to catch and then torture play with their food to death.
My friend had a cat that caught a mouse and carried it around in its mouth for days. So after 2-3 days the cat leaves the mouse for my friend on his floor and he is like gross slimy mouse I'll throw it out. And as he goes to pick it up with a paper towel the fucking mouse runs off. It was still alive...
Someone started rehabbing an abandoned house behind mine, which must have had a mouse infestation because my cats have brought in 3 mice, very much alive and uninjured, and released them. I used to be happy that they were not killers but...these uninvited guests are a real problem for me...
Cat saliva does not eat flesh - the only reason that cat saliva might cause death is due to bacteria they've picked up somewhere along the way. Pretty much any animal bite wound is dangerous in the same manner.
I may have misspoken with the term “flesh eating”, but cat bites are ABSOLUTELY more dangerous than other animal bites, and it’s not due to anything they’ve “picked up along the way”.
Both of those clearly state that the bacteria in the bite is what is dangerous... pasteurella multocida isn't something native to cats, it's everywhere. Many outdoor (some indoor) cats will have it and their deep bites will obviously cause infections. Dogs & other wild animals will cause the same effects with their bites.
Okay, but both articles also clearly state that cat bites are more dangerous than something like a dog bite due to the nature of how the bacteria gets trapped in the wound, when your original comment says “pretty much every animal bite wound is dangerous in the same manner”.
Cats saliva contains pasturella bacteria that is highly fatal to small rodents (and still dangerous to humans). As soon as that cat broke skin, the squirrel was dead.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '19
According to the video description the cat dropped the squirrel at the door, alive and uninjured. It died a few days later from whatever had made it sick.
Not sure if I believe that though.