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Smudgie Doesn't Like Little Children
Over the xmas holiday we had 2 lots of children visit us. There were 4 kids
in the first lot, a 10, 8, 4 and 3 year old. Smudgie was fine with the 3 eldest kids but took something of a dislike to the 3 year old. She fluffed her tail out and growled at her, then ran away and hid! She let the others stroke her beforehand. The other child who came round is 4, Smudgie also growled at him and ran away! Not sure how she decides who she doesn't like. The two 4 year olds are about the same height. The first lot of kids belong to the family we rescued Smudgie from. Perhaps she remembers being squeezed too tightly by the little one? Perhaps I should set up one of those height measuring devices they have at theme parks by our front door. "If you are shorter than this, you can't come in!" lol Sharon |
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Smudgie Doesn't Like Little Children
sounds a cat with excellent taste to me, Lee, NO maternal instincts where
harmed in the production of this message "Sharon & Smudgie" wrote in message ... Over the xmas holiday we had 2 lots of children visit us. There were 4 kids in the first lot, a 10, 8, 4 and 3 year old. Smudgie was fine with the 3 eldest kids but took something of a dislike to the 3 year old. She fluffed her tail out and growled at her, then ran away and hid! She let the others stroke her beforehand. The other child who came round is 4, Smudgie also growled at him and ran away! Not sure how she decides who she doesn't like. The two 4 year olds are about the same height. The first lot of kids belong to the family we rescued Smudgie from. Perhaps she remembers being squeezed too tightly by the little one? Perhaps I should set up one of those height measuring devices they have at theme parks by our front door. "If you are shorter than this, you can't come in!" lol Sharon |
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Smudgie Doesn't Like Little Children
I've always trusted cat's judgement of people. That's more evidence of
their superior judgement. sounds a cat with excellent taste to me, Lee, NO maternal instincts where harmed in the production of this message |
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Smudgie Doesn't Like Little Children
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:52:16 -0000, "Sharon & Smudgie"
wrote: Over the xmas holiday we had 2 lots of children visit us. There were 4 kids in the first lot, a 10, 8, 4 and 3 year old. Smudgie was fine with the 3 eldest kids but took something of a dislike to the 3 year old. She fluffed her tail out and growled at her, then ran away and hid! She let the others stroke her beforehand. The other child who came round is 4, Smudgie also growled at him and ran away! Not sure how she decides who she doesn't like. The two 4 year olds are about the same height. The first lot of kids belong to the family we rescued Smudgie from. Perhaps she remembers being squeezed too tightly by the little one? Perhaps I should set up one of those height measuring devices they have at theme parks by our front door. "If you are shorter than this, you can't come in!" lol It's rare for the cats around here to be exposed to little hoomins. Though not an adult only complex, all the apartments here are one bedroom, so tenants with kids are rare - usually just here a month or two while waiting to move into one of the two other complexes only by the same folks which have one, two and three bedroom apartments. This past summer we had a single mom with a couple youngsters, a pre-school girl and a boy a couple years older. They drove poor Frank, the neighbor cat, crazy, and he actually spent more time at home than on my patio. The problem was that as soon as they saw Frank they try to run up and pet him, which just ended with them chasing him. I tried to teach them not run at him, and the little girl actually got to pet him a couple times. |
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