Cats Big and Small - Page 4
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We see our pet cats pounce on things, or at least we know they do when we are not looking, and I’m sure many
of you like myself often feel sorry for the prey and feel that it must have somehow suffered.
But do they?
We cannot ask them, but humans who are attacked by the big cats can tell us. Sir Edward Bradford had his left
arm munched away up to the elbow by a tiger, and sat at dinner one night with Rustem Pasha, who had lost his
right hand and left arm to a bear. Both men were able to say that they had no suffering during the mutilation.
They agreed that probably their intense desire to defend themselves prevented them from feeling the pain.
Interesting!
Dr. Livingstone, who was terribly bitten by a lion in Africa, had a different and deeply
significant theory. The shock, said he, produced a stupor, similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse
after the first shake by a cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was complete consciousness of
what was happening, but no sense of pain, no feeling of terror. It annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of
horror in looking round at the beast.
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