Harriet, one of two cats at my job (bookstore) has been attacking my
co-workers all day.  I got to work at 11:00am and she was fine.  The
manager, who got here at 10am, said she was fine when she got in, too.
During the early afternoon Harriet came downstairs (offices are in the
basement) and was hanging out in my office for awhile, acting perfectly
normal.  She was drinking, eating, using the litterbox.  She left my office,
around 1:00pm, and one of our temporary workers (for textbook rush) walked
by to get a book for a student.  Harriet turned around, followed him down
the aisle and attacked his leg.  He walked back with the book and she
followed him and attacked his leg again.  She was hissing & growling the
whole time.  I picked her up and she was still mad but didn't try to attack
me.  I brought her back upstairs and she went to one of her usual spots and
lay down.  I came back downstairs to my office and as soon as I got here,
the manager paged me and said I had to get Harriet because she was attacking
them (manager & another worker).  I went back upstairs, picked her up and
brought her to my office and shut the door.  Harriet was acting fine around
me - no noises, no attacks.  I went out around 2:15 to get lunch, leaving
Harriet in my office.  Came back with lunch, offered her some (not
interested, she doesn't really like any human food other than salty cheesy
chips) and she lay down.  A little before 3:00 I let her out, and she
immediately attacked someone else.

Harriet is 5 years old and had been declawed by her original owner(s).  She
sometimes gets nasty, but usually only if people pet her when she doesn't
feel like being pet.  And then, she bites the hand of whoever is bothering
her.  She's done this leg-attack thing thing a few times in the past but
after the first attack, she's always calmed down.  She's never gone after
four people like this.  After the last attack I picked her up again and she
seemed pissed but still made no moves for me.  Right now she's with my boss
in his office, because too many people come in & out of mine.  My boss said
that she's acting normal around him.

I don't know what set her off.  None of the people she attacked even
acknowledged that she was there, they were just going about their business.
She's not just attacking people as they walk by, the manager she she stalked
her third victim upstairs, all around the store.  Usually when she's really
mad, she finds Stinky (the other cat) and attacks her.  She was heading down
an aisle toward Stinky, after I let her out of my office after lunch, when
she attacked the fourth person instead.

Liz