Good Luck Lewis the Cat!!!

The saga of Lewis the cat is not over. It’s just beginning as tomorrow the trial begins.

According to the CT Post, Lewis’s owner, Ruth Cisero, was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment after Lewis allegedly attacked Maureen Bachtig, on Feb. 5. It’s been said that Bachtig won’t back off until Lewis is put to death.

I mean really.

The following quote was also published in the paper and I have to say, Bachtig sounds like one crazy kettle calling a crazy cat black. (By the way, Lewis is black with white paws.)

"Lewis saw the headlights from my car as I was pulling into my driveway," Bachtig told police. "He then ran to my front lawn. I then told my son who was in the car to run quickly into the house and get his dad. I then became concerned for my son's safety and I ran up the front walk and told Lewis to 'go home now.' Next thing you know I felt Lewis' claw on my left leg and I shook him loose. He then lunged and clung to my right leg, leaving one very deep puncture wound, one long deep gash across the top of my knee and various other more shallow claw wounds."

I guess Bachtig’s going for premeditation here.

So we are to picture the cat laying in wait for an automobile, seeing headlights and running to attack the car. (Lewis is a pretty big cat, but taking on a car seems a bit much.) We are to presume that Lewis is lusting after Bachtig’s thighs planning with forethought and malice to jump up on those fleshy limbs and sharpen his claws.

Then according to Bachtig, she and her son started running all over the front lawn. Then Bachtig ran up to Lewis and told him to go home in English rather than in Cat. If she’d spoken in Cat with a HISSSS I’ll bet Lewis would have high-tailed (pun intended) it out of there.

Somehow we are to believe that Bachtig stops running at some point while Lewis claws, punctures lunges and clings to her legs.

Where the hell was “dad” as he was supposed to come out and help, wasn’t he? Why didn’t he come out and run around the front yard too? Why did all the running around stop at the sidewalk? Why, if she was so scared did she open the door to the car and let her son run around the yard when something as ferocious as a house cat was already preparing to attack a car? Why didn’t she call 911 to report a cat in her yard?

I’ve seen pictures of the alleged wounds and really I’ve done more damage with a razor –I’ve seen worse mosquito bites.

Maybe if Bachtig and her son hadn’t been running wildly around the yard, Lewis would have merely peed against a bush and left.

Running up to Lewis, as she admits she did, could have spooked the poor kitty.

Bachtig and son were the ones acting in an aggressive manner to Lewis and the poor cat probably was scared into baring his claws. (If in fact he did what she said.)

The idea that Lewis saw their car’s headlights and ran into their yard to attack them is inane and Bachtig’s frivolous lawsuit, I hope, will end up biting her in the ass.

What a waste of court time.