My cat got stung by a bee...
By Lore2009
@Lore2009 (7378)
United States
September 3, 2010 1:26am CST
A bee has stung my cat a while back, on his lip because he caught it in his mouth. He is fine now but it seems like he is traumatized by anything that buzzes. He freaks out if there is a fly by him and runs away. Are all cats like this? Or is mine just silly? How weird is you cat/pet?
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@zionsphere (673)
• United States
4 Sep 10
My cat freaks out when she hears other cats fighting, but she only tries to eat bees. How do you post a pic in a response? HTML?
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Sep 10
It's not uncommon for a cat to be freaked out by an experience like that. When my cat, Pounce, was a kitten, she went chasing a wasp, and before I could get her away from it, it stung her. She didn't go after wasps after that.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Sep 10
That's the only time I've ever seen a cat get stung too.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
3 Sep 10
Your cat is lucky and smart, he equates catching a bee with pain, a lot of cats just can't connect the two and keep on trying to catch bees.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
3 Sep 10
Hey, that's true, he may have learned his lesson, haha. But the other time, my cat was chasing a wasp! It sounds a little different from a fly or a honey bee so I think he was confused.
I think my cat knows that to open the door you have to touch the knob, because he touches the knobs of closed doors often.
@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
3 Sep 10
I think a lot of cats are easily traumatized. And they must have memories like an elephant. If something bad happens to them they tend to remember and it is often hard to retrain them. I had 2 (of 6) kittens who we had to worm at 6 months of age- unfortunately we had to chase them around a 3 room apartment to catch them and then of course they hated being wrapped in a towel and having a pill forced down their throat. Those cats remained terrified of people (me included) for the next decade. They lived indoors and only one of the 2 ever let me pet him- but only while he was laying in bed with me. the other I would have to sneak up on -walking backwards slowly... while he was sleeping and then pet him and hold him there for a second.. He enjoyed it while I did pet him.. but that wasn't enough for him to break his trauma.
When I got my house.. after a year or so they started going out, and coming back in the open window... and then one day they discovered that my neighbor fed all the wild cats in the area.. and they moved over there and never came back,
Sadly I saw one of them killed by a neighbors dogs as they were terrorizing the neighbor hood. We were on the phone with 911 for about a 1/2 hour trying to get animal control to come and catch them.. by the time they got there.. they had killed my No-na-me' (no nah may)(or NO NAME as it said on his first trip to the vet as a kitten - I worked with it.. lol)
The dogs later got loose again and killed 2 of my babies and attacked a small dog on another street. -after that they made the owners put one of them down.
I hope you enjoy your new little kitten- I am enjoying my two-- took a ton of photos today of them wrestling.. they were just too cute!
