What about the cat?
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Topic: What about the cat?
Posted By: Aprilfools
Subject: What about the cat?
Date Posted: 15 August 2007 at 9:48pm
| I'm sitting here looking at our very needy cat cuddled up to DH on the couch and started thinking, do people really have to get rid of their cat when they have a baby? I know this may be a stupid question but she's a right little diva sometimes and requires constant company and attention. Not kidding, you leave the room for more than a couple of minutes she follows. What will it be like with a baby?? She'll go nuts. We're more worried about how she would adjust than how we would!! She's definitely the type of cat that would see a baby as something to cuddle. Did anyone have a problem with this? |
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 15 August 2007 at 11:27pm
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Don't worry too much, your cat will adapt to the new arrival. We have a very highly strung Siamese and I have forever been worried about how she would react to a baby in the house. She is 10, very set in her ways, usually quite vicious and downright moody. Plus we treated her like a little person and spoilt her rotten.
DH and I had agreed if she looked like she was going to harm Samantha she would have to go. Anyway, she has been absolutley fine. In fact she is almost protective of Sam, and if she is really screaming, Jarrah will be there glaring at me like I am doing something wrong. She gives me this look as if to say 'here, give her to me, I know what to do'. Makes me feel like a complete idiot some of the time. She has never done anything that makes me think she would swipe, claw or bite Sam, so all is good. Also as a handy hint. To keep our cats out of the cot, we filled it with ballons and when the cats tried to jump in it they burst some. Scared them half to death and they haven't gone near it since  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 6:50am
| no!! my cat was great with my girls, he was a sook around them, cutey. he never scratched or anything either was very accepting- sadly he got run over a few years ago. we tried getting another but it was a disaster, scratched, hissed etc... so we had to give it a new home. |
Posted By: Freesia
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 7:28am
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My sister had a cat that would definitely have jumped into the cot to sleep with bub so they had to keep the nursery door closed all the time. It was a huge room so it never got stuffy or anything. Essentially their cat was banned from going in there at all.
We have an indoor cat and are wondering how he is going to get on once baby comes. We've had the cot set up for nearly a month and he hasn't once tried to jump into it (although he loves sleeping under it). He's not a cuddly cat though and when he's around other babies he doesn't seem to concerned by them. Their crying just makes him curious. And he doesn't bite or scratch either. So we think we'll be alright but it may come down to having to keep the nursery door closed when we're not watching just to make sure he doesn't jump into the cot. -------------  
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 8:38am
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we have kept the door closed that leaves them downstairs (lounge kitchen mumroom etc) and we have no cats upstairs (our bedroom nursery lounge etc) now. They were too curious about Ella and the nursery so decded they were banned! One does howl at the door downstairs every now and again...or on the roof outside out bedrooms!
But when she is downstairs she is fascinated by the cats (and dogs) and they will come lick her or sit by us when she is feeding.... cant wait for her to crawl and chase them....one of them will totally freak out and wonder what the heck hit her!!! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 8:48am
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We have three cats, there is no way we would have got rid of them...they are just not allowed in Maddie's room. *snort* like that stops them!
Bosco is totally Maddie's cat anyway, the things he puts up with!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 9:21am
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I swore we wouldn't get any pets while we had a baby, but very young stray kitten turned up on Christmas eve... I just can't say no to that! So Ella was around 2 months old when she got herself a kitten, and it turned out to be the best thing ever. The cot thing can be an issue, though. I just made the rule that the cat wasn't allowed in Ella's room at first. I think it's easier for everyone if there's a room the pet can't go into, rather than certain areas in that room - they seem to get the idea pretty quickly. (Not that we didn't go back on it later!) ------------- Andie |
Posted By: MILF
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 9:45am
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we worried about the animals at first too, but funnily enough, they dont LIKE the sounds a baby makes, and ours hightail it out of there once jordis starts crying.
we have a problem with the cat trying to sleep in the pram if it is left in the hall (sunny room, sheepskin in pram, mmmmm) but he tries not to go near jordis so we are pretty relaxed about it. the problem is trying to get the cat close enough so she can touch him, as she just LURVES him! even has a special "coo" for him - neither her dad or i have our own special call!!!  ------------- Lyla - mum to Xanthe -  my big 4 year old 
and Jordis - 1 year old 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 9:51am
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We have never had problems with our 2 in regards to sleeping in the cot. Have found 1 asleep in the car seat when I had it inside to wash. But only the once. I have a huge problem with my girl with her constant MEOW. I am so over it. I will not "get rid" of her but would love to stop the constant MEOW. No matter what I do, extra attention it doesn't help. As for my boy, he is so timid the only time Tyrell gets near him is when he is eating and Tyrell throws in a scrap or 2.
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Posted By: Aprilfools
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 10:29am
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Sterryn I love the idea of putting balloons in a cot, I might surround myself with balloons next time I want her to leave me alone. We've tried squirting her sometimes but it works for all of 10 seconds. She's very needy and if DH so much as pats my head she's right there in the middle.
Poor Tigger, she's very confused about which one of god's creatures she's supposed to be. She's been in the family since birth....... Sending her away or shutting her out of a room won't be an option, she's too darn persistant. Won't even play in the garden unless you go with her. I'm sure we'll work it out at the time. |