Scaredy cat bites Santa Claus’ wrist
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Santa Claus posed with a huge kitty on his lap -- and now he might need rabies shots.
Jonathan Bebbington was playing the jolly old man at a PetsMart store in Hamilton Township, N.J., when Benny the cat panicked because of dogs and bit him on the wrist and hand, Bebbington said.
At least one witness thought it was a bobcat, estimating it weighed 30 pounds. Owner and cat vanished.
“Her last words were, ‘I have a permit and the cat has all his vaccines,’ ” Bebbington, 47, told the Press of Atlantic City.
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