You know, I was hoping that story was going too have a happy ending.
Well, it's a little upsetting, but I had to behead a cat with a machete back in Africa. It was a stray and my girlfriend, who was trying to adopt it, stupidly picked it up and cuddled it. It bit her, of course, so we got the ol' Peace Corps health manual out and read the protocol for stray cat bites: kill the cat and bring its head to Libreville for rabies testing. The poor cat turned out to be fine. It just didn't feel like being hugged.
How many bald eagles have you seen in the wild?