"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 12/28/2013 11:50 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> On 12/28/2013 10:30 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>
>> My cats would curl up and sleep on my wire fox terrier.
>> She would never harm them.
>>
>> > Or more probably a
>>> baby and a cat? Common mistaken myth is that a cat will smother a baby
>>> by curling up on the baby's face to sleep. nonsense.
>>
>> Of course it's nonsense. Someone saw a cat check out a baby's
>> milk breath and leapt the to weird conclusion that it was trying
>> to suck the life out of it.
>>
>> nancy
>>
> I suppose a cat *could* curl up on and smother a baby. Then again, if
> anyone is so worried about having a cat and a baby at the same time I have
> a suggestion: close the door to the nursery. Ya know, they make these
> "newfangled" electronic gadgets called baby monitors...
>
> I felt so sorry for the little boy who lived next door to me when I was in
> TN. His mother said he just *loved* seeing my cat sitting on the
> windowsill. He wanted a cat. She said, "We can't let him have a cat
> because I'm going to have a baby." Uh, what?

My friend has three girls. She got a cute little kitten. The girls all
loved it. She kept it for maybe two weeks then gave it to a shelter like it
was no big deal. The reason? It got fleas and one of her girls got flea
bites and was allergic.

Not long later she got a puppy. I was like... Uh... Wha? Dogs don't get
fleas? Actually I have had both and I know that dogs are far more likely to
get fleas. And I don't know if this is true or not but a vet told me there
is a difference between dog fleas and cat fleas.

This after we were on our way to moving to Cape Cod but stayed with
relatives in PA while they readied our military housing for us. SIL got
fleas in her house and blamed my cat. I insisted that Maui had no fleas but
just to be on the safe side, I did bath her in the shower and used a flea
comb which turned up nothing. I then agreed take her to the vet for some of
that medication that you put on their neck which at the time could only be
gotten at the vet.

The vet agreed that she had no fleas but sold me the medication just in
case. SIL had brought a dead flea in a bag for proof. Vet looked at it and
said that it was a dog flea. SIL apologized to me and told my FIL that he'd
better get his dog treated. She frequently let the dog into her house.