Cats help families of children with autism
This article is about a discussion on the benefits of domestic cats to autistic children and to the families of those children. The first point to make is that a study (764 participants) published...
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Are children born to like domestic cats?
Do children have an innate desire to like domestic cats? Or do they have the opposite innate feelings: a fear of domestic cats? Are children born with a particular attitude towards domestic cats? I...
Which gender of domestic cat is better with kids?
Individual cats have their own character. This probably overrides their gender-influenced character. The question in the title is hard to answer to precisely for that and other reasons. However, on balance male cats are...
Picture of toddler and kitten retaken 12 years later
This is a cool picture from Reddit user: u/lelzpickle. It struck me quite quickly that the pictures highlight the durability of the human-cat relationship. They are 12 years apart. The average marriage in the...
My cat is aggressive towards my child
Some moms are concerned that their cat is aggressive towards their child. They are looking for answers. The key point is that domestic cats don’t randomly attack people in the home for no reason....
Picture of a young child protecting a street cat from the rain
This is a charming photograph of a young child who is demonstrating to the world her cat welfare credentials. I’d bet no adults did this on this wet day. It is an instinctive act...
America’s millennials delay having kids, ‘We wanted to start with a cat, to dip a toe in the water’
An article in the Financial Times written by Patti Waldmeir is interesting to me. She writes about America’s millennials who are delaying having children or even avoiding it altogether and instead adopting a companion...
Ten-year-old’s interview with her cat is charming but not quite right
Gabi’s father writes on his Twitter posting of December 4th 2017, ‘My kid did an interview with her cat’. Below the words is his photograph of the imaginary interview. It is very cute and...
Did this Siamese type tortoiseshell cat save a toddler from falling down stairs?
An in-house security camera video clip shows a toddler crawling towards the top of some hard stairs. In the video, we don’t see the stairs going down but we do see a still photo...
The parents of a pre-teen child who abused a four-week-old kitten should be investigated
Allegedly, a pre-teen child abused a kitten and if this is true the child’s parents should be questioned and held to account if they are to blame for their child’s behavior.
Boys who stole Vancouver cat may face charges. And this may not be their first cat abduction.
This article goes into a bit more detail on the one posted by Michael pertaining to the boys who sneaked up on a family cat named Jack and stole him from a Vancouver, Washington...
Children should help to take care of the family cat
It has to be a good idea to encourage children to assist in taking care of the family cat. I believe that children should be directly involved in caring for the family cat but...
How a child should not carry a cat
The cat’s expression says it all. There is not much to say except that the girls mother took to the photo as an example of why her daughter needed training on carrying a cat....
Schoolchildren are exposed to an unprecedented level of animal abuse on social media
In the UK, the RSPCA have revealed that a fifth of school children aged between 10 and 18 in the Northwest have witnessed animal cruelty and neglect on social media. The point being made...
Ten-year-old girl electrocuted and killed getting kittens behind dryer
A ten-year-old East Texas girl, Greenlee Marie, was electrocuted causing her death while apparently trying to retrieve her kittens, who she loved dearly, from behind a dryer in the home, Fox Carolina reports. It...
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