Cat attack hospitalizes woman

HAILEY, Idaho – A house cat attacked its owner in this central Idaho town, sending her to the hospital by ambulance with more than 20 bite wounds.

The woman’s cat went on the rampage Wednesday when a neighbor showed up at the door with a different cat, thinking it was hers.

“She went to the door, and her cat went berserk,” Jeff Nevins, assistant fire chief for Wood River Fire and Rescue, told the Idaho Mountain Express.

The Hailey woman in her 60s was taken to St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center with what Nevins described as “pretty serious puncture wounds.” Neither the hospital nor the Fire Department would provide other details Saturday, or say whether she has been released.