Beware the uninformed

FlaxMilk

I will give this round to you though-if you youtube that video, the cat is wound up and the boy is messing with it and clearly upset. The parents should have separated the two.

Don't know if this part is true, but people on the youtube video state that the mother is telling the baby to hit the cat. If that's true, the parents probably encouraged the kid to mess with the cat from the beginning so they could get it on video. Ridiculous.

MyIdaho54

I've been around cats for over 50 years and have never observed a cat attacking a child in the face. Yes, hissing and snarling to warn but never an outright attack. IMO, there's more to this story than we're shown. In my experience, cats tend to give kids a wide berth until they're convinced the kid will not harm them. YMMV.

My cat attacked a child. The child didn't do anything wrong, but I think my cat perceived a potential attack where there really wasn't one. We don't let children near that cat anymore, but we definitely didn't see that coming.

Sorry to hear that... Good plan to keep the cat away from kids. I think we are really on the same page... Have a good one and all the best!

MyIdaho54

I will give this round to you though-if you youtube that video, the cat is wound up and the boy is messing with it and clearly upset. The parents should have separated the two.

Don't know if this part is true, but people on the youtube video state that the mother is telling the baby to hit the cat. If that's true, the parents probably encouraged the kid to mess with the cat from the beginning so they could get it on video. Ridiculous.

Sad story, what was the mother thinking??? Wrong on so many levels... Grrrr to her...

Take care!

BrainyBurro

Did the op rage quit yet?

Also..

I'm a bigtime cat lover and found that video very disturbing... Yeah, the kid should not have hit the cat but wow cannot allow a cat to attack like that... Must have been an intact tom as they tend to not back down if challenged...

attack?

holy hyperbole batman!

Cait_Sidhe

I read this thread from the beginning. I knew this was going to become about cats!

As you were.

ndj1979

As far as "allowed" goes, well parents do need to be teaching kids to be kind to animals and animals need be removed if they can't restrain from attacking. Not all cats are suited to be around kids. Fortunately most are smart enough to give young kids a wide berth and find hiding places to sleep.

Of course parents need to teach their kids that. I don't know what happened before the kid hit the cat, but unless the kid and cat were already fighting, the parents would have had to be psychic to stop that exchange.

If the kid or cat had already harmed the other prior to this clip, and the parents didn't intervene and allowed this to occur, then yes, I would agree that this is disturbing.

I've been around cats for over 50 years and have never observed a cat attacking a child in the face. Yes, hissing and snarling to warn but never an outright attack. IMO, there's more to this story than we're shown. In my experience, cats tend to give kids a wide berth until they're convinced the kid will not harm them. YMMV.

holy derail batman!

sloth3toes

holy derail batman!