Rory had a close encounter of the feline kind. If you use your imagination you can kind of make out the path the paw swiped at him. In defense of our kitties, if ever a child pestered the crap out of an animal and deserved a little retribution it is Rory. He is not mean to them. He does not hurt them. He is just a pest. He like to play follow the leader. This does not amuse the cat. He likes to hug the kitty. Again, not amused. He likes to sit in his Daddy's lap even though the cat was there first. The cat is not amused and pushed off a comfy lap. In spite of this we have mostly tolerant cats. I say mostly because two of them are totally anti child. Pickles refuses to get out of the line of fire but yowls until rescued. Miss Kitty is normally camouflaged somewhere trying to be invisible but WILL tear you a new one if you touch her without permission. To this day only a few people have ever received permission other than me, her mommy. The cat that inflicted the damage was the most tolerant (of kids) and best mothering cat I know.
Clio must have either been startled or Rory hugged a bit too hard. One reason why we do not encourage people/animal hugging in our home. She swiped, he screamed. She must have known that she just did something bad cause she looked over her shoulder at J and then high tailed it to hide under our bed. I wouldn't have punished the cat. Rory knows better than to pester the cats. We have been going over it since before he understood what was being said to him. Some things just have to be learned the hard way. This is not our first adventure into the medical treatment of cat scratches. I doubt it will be the last. Should be a few months at least. Clio and Rory have made up since "the incident". They even shared Daddy's lap the other night. Progress maybe? We shall see.
Rory had a close encounter of the feline kind. If you use your imagination you can kind of make out the path the paw swiped at him. In defense of our kitties, if ever a child pestered the crap out of an animal and deserved a little retribution it is Rory. He is not mean to them. He does not hurt them. He is just a pest. He like to play follow the leader. This does not amuse the cat. He likes to hug the kitty. Again, not amused. He likes to sit in his Daddy's lap even though the cat was there first. The cat is not amused and pushed off a comfy lap. In spite of this we have mostly tolerant cats. I say mostly because two of them are totally anti child. Pickles refuses to get out of the line of fire but yowls until rescued. Miss Kitty is normally camouflaged somewhere trying to be invisible but WILL tear you a new one if you touch her without permission. To this day only a few people have ever received permission other than me, her mommy. The cat that inflicted the damage was the most tolerant (of kids) and best mothering cat I know.
Clio must have either been startled or Rory hugged a bit too hard. One reason why we do not encourage people/animal hugging in our home. She swiped, he screamed. She must have known that she just did something bad cause she looked over her shoulder at J and then high tailed it to hide under our bed. I wouldn't have punished the cat. Rory knows better than to pester the cats. We have been going over it since before he understood what was being said to him. Some things just have to be learned the hard way. This is not our first adventure into the medical treatment of cat scratches. I doubt it will be the last. Should be a few months at least. Clio and Rory have made up since "the incident". They even shared Daddy's lap the other night. Progress maybe? We shall see.
Ouch! Hopefully Rory gets over the incident soon and isn't afraid of cats over it. Kids are usually quite resilient though :)
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