As tough as it is for us to lose a cat, it’s even tougher for a child to deal with it. They have fewer resources, more confusion, and less experience handling their emotions. If we had a hard time dealing with a pet’s death when we were young, we can have even more trepidation over [...]
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Cats & Expecting: The Mother of All Myths
The biggest old wives’ tales about cats are probably all gathered together under the heading of “Cats and Pregnancy.” Not the cat’s pregnancy. Their human’s. Click on picture for larger, readable size. It takes two doctors (Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua Sparrow) to give this much wrong-headed advice to pregnant cat owners. Dr. [...]
How Cats Can Teach Humanity
Empathy is the highest virtue. This is a complex ability which needs considerable exposure and practice. Sometimes, especially for our children, this can be best expressed through a relationship which is not human to human. Human relationships tend to be a web of interrelated obligations and considerations. One of the reasons we love pets is [...]
Cats and Small Children
There’s no reason a well-adjusted cat can’t get along with small children. At this very moment, throughout the world, there are hundreds of untouched babies with a fistful of cat fur. see more crazy cat pics Cats will be curious about this new person, cautious about their noises, and will quickly make themselves scarce if [...]
