Animal care worker thinks cat claws defeated cobra fangs
2015/09/10 20:21:26
Taipei, Sept. 10 (CNA) A woman in Taitung said Thursday that she thinks eight cats at an animal shelter where she works may have saved her from the poisonous fangs of a cobra near her dormitory.
The woman, who works at Taitung Animal Caring Center and lives in a dormitory there, said she and a male colleague were approaching the dorm Wednesday evening, when the eight cats surrounded them, leaping and meowing, preventing them from entering the front door.
The cats then ran to the back door of the dorm and the two workers followed, according to the woman. She said that when she and her colleague turned on the lights, they were startled to see a big cobra lying there with slash wounds all over its body.
It appeared that the cats had attacked the cobra as it was trying to enter the dorm, the woman said.
She related the story to her friends and other colleagues, saying that the homeless cats that the center had rescued over the past two years had most likely saved her life.
She was relieved to know that the cats' claws had proved more deadly than the poisonous fangs of the cobra and that none of the cats had been injured, she said.
(By T. C. Lu and Lillian Lin)
