fur-flying

Etymology
A particularly vicious fight between cats or other animals is one that sends fur flying.

Adjective

 * 1) vicious
 * 2) * 2006: 'Anticlimactic as it may have been, the news last week that Meredith Vieira would replace Katie Couric on the “Today” show marked the dénouement of a fur-flying, nail-biting, years-long game of musical chairs among television’s leading ladies.' &mdash; The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.