No, you don't understand. You don't decide to get a new kitten, a new kitten decides to get you. You have no say in the matter whatsoever. Remember, dogs have owners, cats have staff.
No, that's usually not why they do that. In fact, in your case the cat was probably just marking territory. And if the cat rubbed up against the kid it was marking him (or her) too.
We had a cat when our kids came along and he was cool with them. Would even let them pull his tail and ears. (But he was kinda special, we were best buds; worst two habits he had was jumping up in my lap during dinner and taking a nap and actually begging at the table when we were having salmon. He's reach up from the floor and tap me on the elbow to ask for a bite.)
This post was edited by Salt and Red Pepper at October 16, 2017 1:01 PM MDT
I've heard some interesting stories about cats -dogs as well 'course but I always been a cat person. Been a hermitish kind of person a lot of my life and 'course never had a baby. Guy in my building living on the ground floor would let his cat run loose -like anyone else- out into the courtyard and it would go into other people's units and pee on THEIR beds for some reason. So then he allowed the cat out but on a length of leash.
A whole lot of sacrifices... my(haha) cat just showed up at my back door one day and decided to move in. First I put in a cat door because she likes to go out into the back yard, then ten minutes later she is back, and then out again and on and on. At night have to lock the cat door because the raccoons were coming in. As soon as I go to bed, she wants to go out, as soon as I get to sleep she wants in again. If I ignore her she cries, she scratches the door etc and it never stops. Sometimes I say that's it. She's gone. And lock everything up. She will not accept that and she will scratch at the door for hours until I give in. when she gets fleas, she will not let me put on the flea stuff. I have to wait until she is asleep, and if she is laying the right way I squirt it onto the back of her neck. Then she ignore me for days at a time.... .....Jeez what a pain
Nope. When a cat takes over, you have to fight tooth and nail to protect your own proclivities. Cats are EVIL ba$tards. If they had opposable thumbs, they'd wipe us out.
Salt and Red Pepper 