I also have a cat that just plain will lie across my head and go to sleep. All of the studies in the world would not convince me to let that cat sleep in a crib with a neonate.
It is possible a cat might lie across the face of a sleeping child and thus upon extremely rare instances accidentally cause a death, but that is not the old wives’ tale at hand wherein the cat does so with malice aforethought.
Exactly which part of ‘cat might sit on an infant’s face’ is improbable and baseless fearmongering? Some of them certainly do it to adults. Don’t bring up autism, that’s a scientific impossibility while this has reasons for being possible. They’re two entirely different things.
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Would you care to explain how this might be ‘harmful’?
Hey, I’m sorry to be “that poster” about it, but please consider the dangers of encouraging or even allowing the cat crib access.
Your infant can’t protect itself from a cuddly cat that could cause suffocation.
Cheers, and thanks. The baby is still 2 months out, and the cat will not have access to the room once they’re here.
Better restrict cat’s access to the room right now. Once it has been allowed there several times it’s much more complicated to untrain that habit.
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I said consider it.
I also have a cat that just plain will lie across my head and go to sleep. All of the studies in the world would not convince me to let that cat sleep in a crib with a neonate.
Does it have to be a ‘significant’ number of cases to mention the possibility?
Edit: Unrelated snopes links aside, turns out it does happen.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16388009_Can_a_cat_smother_and_kill_a_baby
From their own freaking snopes link:
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Exactly which part of ‘cat might sit on an infant’s face’ is improbable and baseless fearmongering? Some of them certainly do it to adults. Don’t bring up autism, that’s a scientific impossibility while this has reasons for being possible. They’re two entirely different things.
Would you care to explain how this might be ‘harmful’?
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Here’s the result of a quick Google. Huh, turns out it is possible…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16388009_Can_a_cat_smother_and_kill_a_baby
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