-
Too many ads? Join our community of cat lovers now to reduce ads by 90%! Click here to join for free!
Cats And Babies.
- Thread starter gareth
- Start Date
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #3
That's a good question, and the answer is yes.
1. We played baby screaming sounds for a few minutes a day, leading up to an hour a day, throughout the pregnency
2. We set up the cot well in advance and filled it with tins of baked beans, so they learned it was not a comfortable place to sleep.
3. We had friends bring babies and children round to get them used to it
4. We switched to using baby shampoo and body wash ourselves, so they got used to the smells
5. We made sure we had burmese cats
6. We made sure the cats had safe places to go
In terms of introducing her, we got them used to the smells by letting them sleep on baby clothes for a couple of days, but TBH we introduced her immediately and they just started licking her face. We didn't want them to be stuck in a room wondering why they were being excluded. Burmese cats go mental if you try to lock them away from you.
Perhaps most importantly, we haven't tried to keep them separate at all, so there has been no jealousy. The cats don't sleep with the baby in the cot, that's the only rule. I see so many parents freaking out when their cat goes near the baby and picking it up and throwing it out of the room etc, is it any wonder the cats get annoyed. We made a massive effort when Ren arrived NOT to focus completely on her, so all our animals continued to feel safe and loved.
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #5
Not in the slightest. Loki weighs twice as much as Mia and regularly beats the crap out of her until she runs away. With the baby, however, Mia is very much the boss.
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #7
17 weeks. And yeah, she does. she smiles when she sees her, and is starting to reach towards her.
- Thread Starter Thread Starter
- #9
That would actually be awesome.
