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Originally Posted by DougB
Dafoe, you will find that TOTVers think everyone needs their advice on how to run their lives. I believe the only thing you asked was if anyone wanted a cat.
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So true. Dafoe, please don't let the naysayers brow beat you for making an effort to find a loving home for your grandkitty. Yes children can be taught how to treat animals at an early age, but we can't always teach kitties that the children mostly want to play and will learn to play nice. Children and adults often move too rapidly frightening animals, so they act out in order to protect themselves. One daughter's kitty was living with us temporarily, when step-daughter's children came for a visit. Step-daughter's family are not cat people like us. Step-granddaughter was petting the kitty and all was fine, until step-grandson decided it would be funny to pull the cats tail. Step-granddaughter was scratched because she was in the cat's line of sight. I had to rescue kitty from an angry Grandpa, tell grandpa what had happened, end result, step-grandson was punished, but wouldn't you know, he did it again a couple of days later. He was 10! He was punished again, but we were not giving him a 3rd chance, so for the cat's "protection" and to avoid sending the sister home full of scratches, we moved kitty to another part of the house under lock and key so grandson could not torment a loving kitty and change his personality. Twenty years later we found out that step-grandson had convinced his sister that the cat was evil and told his mother that kitty had scratched granddaughter for no reason. Fortunately grandpa saw the second incident so we were both able to tell his daughter that we had not put their children in harms way by housing an evil cat. Due to that behavior and so many others step-grandchildren were never invited to visit without parents again! Some times kids and animals are just not a good mix!