Years ago my dogs trapped a cat in a tree in my yard one day in August. When I got home it was almost dead from dehydration, so I figured it would let me help him down. I went up a ladder and tried to lift it up from its belly. He used his last bit of strength to bury his teeth in my left hand right at the knuckle. I had to climb down the ladder with it dangling limp from my hand. I had to pinch its cheeks as hard as I could with my right hand to get its jaws apart, then it just fell on the ground limp. I slid my foot under it and flung it about 20 feet through the air! I pushed it into a 5 gallon bucket and left it at the neighbors, then I went to the hospital, bleeding like I had been shot. Its teeth actually scraped my bones, and I was lucky to not get a serious infection.