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meee - 05 Feb 2006 22:16 GMT

Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of extreme
displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has scratched him
several times for not giving her enough respect, so for her to allow him to
carry her at all is very unusual!! Needless to say he got scratched soon
after, but only gently....:) this is a step in the right direction for her,
as she came to us extremely shy and refusing to interact with the family or
the other cats. She actually has come out and sat on the chair next to me
lately, with Jasmine in the same room! So she definitely is coming out of
her shell, which is great. she has been the most difficult cat I've ever
had, mainly because of her lack of social skills.

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SuzQ - 06 Feb 2006 12:34 GMT

Sounds like progress.
Suz&Spicey

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jmcquown - 06 Feb 2006 22:34 GMT

> Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of
> extreme displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has
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> great. she has been the most difficult cat I've ever had, mainly
> because of her lack of social skills.

This is progress! The only thing I can add is the cat is probably very
heavy for your toddler. Show him the proper way to pick up a cat and carry
it. Not dangling with arms tucked under the front paws like so many young
children do. That would annoy me, too, if I were a cat :)

Jill

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meee - 07 Feb 2006 04:36 GMT

>> Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of
>> extreme displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has
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>
> Jill

Luckily she is very petite; only 2.5 k and he has been shown how to carry
them...he usually picks them up like a baby doll....so cute! One of the
kittens loves this and licks and pats his nose while he carries the 'baby'
around cooing at it. He even puts him to bed and the kitten loves it!!
Cougar is doing even better today, coming out and snooping around. Since
putting them all in the same room at night (i felt they were ready) they all
seem to be getting on better. I think Cougar was indulged too much at her
last home; she was the breeders favourite and I've had to train her out of
lots of bad habits such as pinching food off people's forks and plates,
being ridiculously picky with food (refusing to eat anything but people
food) and being a total recluse. So i have been gently pushing her to
interact with other cats and people, and it seems to be working. She is much
more confident than she's ever been, and is starting to fit in very well
with us all!

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Adrian - 07 Feb 2006 10:13 GMT

>> Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of
>> extreme displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has
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>
> Jill

I remember seeing a toddler that carried her cat arround by the neck, the
cat, Tabitha, never seemed to worry. Though if an adult had tried that I'm
sure they would have been sliced and diced. The toddler in question was 27
two weeks ago, she now carries her cats properly. ;-)

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meee - 07 Feb 2006 10:39 GMT

>>> Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of
>>> extreme displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has
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> sure they would have been sliced and diced. The toddler in question was 27
> two weeks ago, she now carries her cats properly. ;-)

Lol!!! So you see, I'm training up the next generation of cat slaves (or
maybe cougar's training them!!) I have to admire Master 3's perseverance,
tho, as Cougar has scratched him and drawn blood recently. However he just
keeps going back, to her specifically, so she must be worth it :)

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Christina Websell - 12 Feb 2006 17:42 GMT

>> Just saw my 3 year old walk in carrying Cougar....who had look of
>> extreme displeasure on her face!!! Cougar detests children, and has
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>
> Jill

One of my earliest memories is of carrying my grandparent's cat in exactly
the way you describe. I must have been very small as I remember that his
back feet touched the floor and I kept trying to "hotch him up" a bit higher
so that they didn't.
He was a pure black cat and his name was Tiddley. Yes, he did scratch me
sometimes but my grandparents didn't interfere. I suppose they figured out
I'd learn what he did and didn't like myself by Tiddley's own teaching
method!

Tweed

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jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 12 Feb 2006 20:58 GMT

>> Not dangling with arms tucked under the front paws like so many young
>> children do. That would annoy me, too, if I were a cat :)
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> back feet touched the floor and I kept trying to "hotch him up" a bit higher
> so that they didn't.

LOL. Wasn't there a picture of Dusty (TJ's Dusty) being carried by TJ's
daughter Kelsey, in just that manner? When stretched out, that cat was
about as long as Kelsey was tall (she was about 5 years old in the photo),
so I'm sure his back feet were touching the floor. What I found funny
about that picture was that Dusty wasn't struggling at all. He let that
kid do all kinds of things to him (bury him in crumpled up gift wrapping
paper, dress him up in frilly clothes, or wait - maybe that was TJ :)).
I remember that he was very cranky toward adults, but let Kelsey do
whatever she wanted. I wonder how many cats cut that much slack for human
children?

Joyce

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Wayne Mitchell - 13 Feb 2006 02:58 GMT

>He let that
>kid do all kinds of things to him (bury him in crumpled up gift wrapping
>paper, dress him up in frilly clothes, or wait - maybe that was TJ :)).
>I remember that he was very cranky toward adults, but let Kelsey do
>whatever she wanted. I wonder how many cats cut that much slack for human
>children?

A cousin of mine had a cat that allowed all of those indignities
and more, apparently without the slightest concern or
resentment. I remember that she used to dress him up in doll's
clothes and push him around in a baby buggy for hours at a
stretch.

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Jane - 15 Feb 2006 19:49 GMT

>whatever she wanted. I wonder how many cats cut that much slack for human
>children?

Dogs do it too. My youngest brother used to sit on my St. Bernard's neck
and bounce up and down, using her ears as reins. It's as if they
understand that these are the young of the species, and don't really
mean to do harm. They won't allow themselves to be hurt, but the rest
is okay.

Big exception was our cat Tribble. Tribble had had his tail injured
too many times, so anyone who touched it, adult or child, would get
scratched. We simply kept Tribble away from children. He wasn't the
most sociable anyway, so it wasn't hard.

Jane
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Marina - 16 Feb 2006 04:15 GMT

>>whatever she wanted. I wonder how many cats cut that much slack for human
>>children?
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> mean to do harm. They won't allow themselves to be hurt, but the rest
> is okay.

You just have to look at a mother cat with her kittens, and everything
they do to their mama. They climb all over her, bite her face, her ears,
her tail, wrestle with each other on top of her...

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