This kitty did more than bite the hands that fed it.
It viciously mauled a sweet elderly New Jersey couple that had been generously feeding the stray for years.
The orange feline had become rabid, authorities confirmed.
The unidentified pair were left bloodied by the feral feline outside their home in Warren County Tuesday, the Blairstown Township Police Department announced in a Facebook post.
Police were able to capture the kitty at the scene — and were shocked by the absolute carnage it had wrought.
“The amount of blood on their driveway was absolutely shocking knowing that it all came from a cat attack,” Animal Control Officer Robert Lagonera wrote in a Facebook post.
Blairstown Police Chief Scott Johnsen told The Post the couple were sliced up “pretty much from head to toe.”
“They’d been feeding it for like five years,” Johnsen said. “This particular day they went out to their driveway and the cat just viciously attacked them.”
Photos show the orange cat was suffering from its own intense injuries. Lagonera said, “The nasal cavity was literally exposed.”
The injuries were indicative of a run-in with a raccoon, which can often be rabid. The sick cat later tested positive for rabies, according to Lagonera.
The cat, which was euthanized, had been “still lunging at people with a broken leg,” the chief said.
The couple drove themselves to an area hospital where they were treated for their wounds and received rabies shots, according to Johnsen.
The brutal attack left the couple with injuries all over — and possibly even more scarred by the betrayal, the chief said.
“They’re quite upset about it,” he added.
Lagonera said there’s no current outbreak and no cause for concern to the general public.
“Don’t panic. Every cat is not rabid right now,” he said, adding, “This is quite rare.”
Warren County, in rural northern New Jersey, has a large wild cat population including many barn cats who are more prone to encounters with wild animals that can result in rabies infections.
“Cats is such a tough topic in this world because there’s so many ferals and there’s no place to put them all,” Lagonera said, while warning against ‘open feeding.”
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