Cat Fight!

Snickers our older cat has been very patient with Rylen from the beginning and she was the one that would actually sleep at his feet. Every time Rylen would come up to her and crawl over her or pull her hair she would put up with it for a bit and then walk away.
But not this time!
Rylen found her sleeping in our closet on the weekend. He figured out how to climb up into it and then made his way over to the cat. After bugging her for a few seconds (each time I said "no" and pulled him away) Snickers decided to teach him a lesson and fight back. She took 2 good swipes at him.
He sat there in shock for a second and then came the tears. I though she had scratched his hand but when Rylen turned to me for comfort I saw blood dripping from his nose.
The cat scratched him on the nose, in the corner of the eye and down his eye lid. He's very lucky that she never got his eye! Andrew and I both agreed that Snickers had every right to warn him but she did get a very firm "no" and a little smack on the paw.
After all that Rylen never learnt his lesson. Once the tears had stopped I put him back down and he went right back to Snickers.