What affects us affects cats
The belief that a domestic cat could suck the breath out of a baby probably stemmed from a combination of factors: Cats were considered to be witches’ familiars, companions to witches, at the time when people believed in witchcraft. Some people still do. At the time that people believed that cats could suck the …
Why do cats pee on baby things? This is a potentially serious issue because I have just read a post on a baby site in which the husband told his wife that either the cat or he had to go because the cat was peeing on the baby’s things. Understandably the wife got rid …
What do you make of this? The big question is does this black cat calm the crying baby and lull him back to sleep by his gentle touch or is it all a coincidence without cause and effect? We know that cats sometimes form friendships with babies and we also know that cats like …
Using Google search, I can tell that a lot of women who are cat guardians have a problem with their cat having introduced a baby to the household. Their resident companion animal becomes stressed and demonstrates it through peeing everywhere, becoming depressed and perhaps not eating as before. Prepare The problem originates in how …
The description of this cat’s behavior is of a caring cat, Stewie, who wants to settle down the crying baby, Connar, with a gentle, paternal pat on the head. When Stewie first heard Connar he was confused and then he seems to have decided to step in to do his fatherly bit. The video …
This is an irrefutable example of a domestic cat protecting a baby from a man (the father) who pretends that he is hurting his baby. It is a rather bizarre video really because I disagree with the behavior of the man. There is something distasteful about it. However, the behavior of the cat is …
Cynics say that cats trick us into loving them and providing food and shelter through false expressions of affection and that we project our emotions onto our cat and imagine that they have the same affection for us as we have them. I think that this cynical approach to the human/cat relationship has been …
The general answer is that cats normally show little interest in new babies. Either that or cats find babies off-putting because babies are unpredictable and noisy. Cats can be spooked by all the crying. Perhaps, that should be the overriding principle combined with caution. The answer to the question in the title comes from …
