Little Kitty Turns Out to Be Wild Bobcat CLINTON, Tenn. (UP)-Charlie Phillips will hesitate the next time his wife tells him to fetch the little kitty out from under the house. He crawled under his home Friday at his wife's bidding and the 'ordinary cat" turned out to be a snarling bobcat which charged and hit Phillips head-on. "It was like being hit by a load of bricks," he said. "I w a s knocked at least 20 feet. When I got up I grabbed the cat by the throat and hind legs and started choking him." After about 11 minutes, Phillips finally killed the cat with the help of Louis Patterson of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who planted his foot on the bobcat's middle, while Phillips and his opponent wrestled. The bobcat got his claws in before he died. Phillips was scratched on the hands and chest but was not seriously injured. "It was the first time in my life that I was ever attacked by a bobcat," the bloody Phillips said "and I hope it is the last." Dailey Independent, Monessen, Penn., January 4, 1958