Cats and Children

Children enjoy very much with any pet and a cat or a playful and sociable kitty is ideal in order that there is a positive influence between one to others. To have a cat is also a marvelous method in order that the children learn something on the responsibility and the satisfaction to take care of other creatures.

However, it is necessary to teach the children since they were a child being nice with the cats and to respecting their needs. A pet is not a toy but an alive and never allow that they should treat them badly. Children have to know that the cats – the same as themselves- need time for them and to rest and that, sometimes, is better for the cat-and equally satisfactorily for the owner – monitoring him instead of taking and to start playing with him.

Cats and little children
A baby and a cat can coexist, but it's better to restrict their contact. Although a baby or a very small child are too big in order that the cat is wrong and confuses them with a prey, there are other dangers. A baby is not capable of taking a cat from him and there is a certain risk that the baby could be suffocated by a cat that get into the cradle. For this reason, it is never necessary to make the cats alone with the very small children. It is suitable to prevent that the cat sleeps near the child and to place his basket in a different room where the cradle of the child is.

If the owner of the cat is pregnant, it is not necessary to allow that the cat should sleep on the cradle or the bed clothes of the child. It is necessary to be accustomed to the animal to sleep in another place before the child is born.

It is necessary to to be accustomed to the cat to a daily routine of eaten, play and polishing, but it is necessary to do it at the present time, not after the child comes. It is necessary to be realist with regard to the time that it will be possible dedicate to the cat as soon as the child is born and share the responsibility with other members of the family, prevent the cat from having jealousies of the baby if one neglects him. The cats are curious for nature. When the baby comes to house, it is necessary to allow that the cat should see him and smells him monitored very closely, certainly. Allow him to satisfy his curiosity for the things of the child, before putting them to good security in another place.

Q/A My 10-year-old daughter has already had several rabbits and guinea pig. She would like to have a pedigreed cat to be exhibited. What breed do you recommend me?

You should think about a Ragdall or about a Scottish Fold (Scot of fold ears) because of his calm and tender character, or about a sociable cat as a Siamese, an Egyptian Mau or a blue Britisher. It is important to remember that the behavior of any cat it's a product both of the environment as of his genes and that is fundamental to educate them well since the beginning.

Our cat Daisy polishes herself too much and her tail´s hair has fallen almost completely. She started doing it when our son Daniel started clumbering and now she avoids him. Is there any relation between these two things?

Margarita's behavior is due to the nervous that causes to her all that Daniel is doing, specially if she was not with children when she was a kitty. Make sure that Daniel should not damage and scare to her and never let them alone when they are together. Give a place to the cat where she could retire without Daniel follows her. I would advise you also to take her to the veterinarian in order that he examines her and to see if, in case of Daisy, would be some ansiolitic medicine. Also it is possible that the responsible of the excessive polishing could be to an allergic reaction to the products that put on your child.

We have picked up a small Britisher cremates in abandon, its named Henry. He is very kind with my wife and with me, but although it cuddles in my daughters lap, after a while he jumps off grumbling at her from another side of the room. Is the girl doing something wrong?

It seems that a child had ill-treated to Henry previously and was losing the nerves when he is calmer and vulnerable. Continue encouraging him to be with your daughter in short meetings of caresses and do that she is giving the eating and brushing him, if he likes it. He will have more confidence with the time, but your daughter has to have patience.

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