my 2 year old is determined to let the cats kill her

she won't leave them alone. i can't just throw them outside all the time, but she's relentless. she traps them where i can't reach her easily, then "cuddles" them half to death. she's like elmira. and then they freak out and scratch or bite her until she's bleeding somewhere, and then she does it all over again. what's the deal?!!

 

Please don't take this the wrong way - but your cats prolly stand a Much better chance of getting killed than the 2 yr. old. I'm sure the scratches don't feel good; but I've Banned my neices whom I dearly love from "playing" with my outside cats.
I Always hope they will just Run from the girls, but the smaller the child, it seems the quicker they are! Quick to pick up by the head/neck, tail etc.
When I Know they are coming, especially the 2 and 4 yr olds, I will actually hide the smallest kittens.
When my brother was 2 to 3 yrs old, he used to "love" the cats, kittens mostly, literally to death. (Squeezing their necks and guts with those strong little hands.)

 

so i don't really know much about the cats and 2 years thing, cause we have dogs, but everytime i've ever had my 2 year old around cats they just run away, but the letting them bite and scratch, not too sure about all that.

 

my cats are super mellow, and very big. fat cats, if you will. bigger than joey. they do love her, they cuddle with her at night and stuff. but she gets this bug up her butt to "play" with them. she's relentless. i hide the cats, throw them in the back yard, whatever i can. she just won't stop.

 

LOL - I do know what you mean. One of my big fat foolish cats will drive us all Nuts to go get close to the 2 year old so that Kiara can "play" (torment) him. Not only will Kiara not stop, you can't keep some (at Least one) of the cats away from her!:cheers2:

 

Oh man, when my twins were 2 years old, they did the same exact things to our poor cat. They were relentless, tormented the heck out of her. Except sometimes they would even sit on her, or squeeze her half to death. We didn't have a cat when my oldest son was 2, but I can bet he would have done the same thing.

My 2 year old nephew does it too, doesn't try to cuddle much with the cat persay, but he just won't leave it alone. *laughs* I think it must be a thing with 2 year olds.

 

Poor cats, you say your cats are calm at the moment but if she hurts one of them they will be so scared of her that they wont wanna be near her and maybe you.

Does she listen to you? It might be a good thing to teach her no - get a star chart and for everyday she doesnt annoy the cats let her have a star - when shes got 10 buy her a presnt. Hopefuly then she will leanr not o annoy them - and it will stop her getting hurt - theres so many bugs in cats claws x

 

she doesn't listen to me at all. not even a little.

 

My two year old started walking because of the cat. He couldn't wait to catch him.

We had to give away the kitten, though. I was afraid they were going to kill her. Carrying her by the neck, and trying to snuggle her. Which for some reason involved them lying on top of her. Fighting over her, literally tug of war. Poor thing.

 

My one year.. loves the cats too... we are actually convinced she was a cat, so maybe that's why she plays well with them most of the time... she can be rough sometimes too but I taught her to be "gentle" and she loves how excited I get when she's "gentle" so most of the times she'll listen to me, sometimes she's very rough too but the cats will give her a tough, non-claw swing back, so I don't really have to worry about the cats or her, just a little referring does pretty good.

Maybe try to really, really overemphasize and demonstrate being gentle with them... and if she responds to pain, try to overemphasize pain when she's rough with them, like saying "ouch" really loudly and dramatically acting out the pain when she's too rough... it has worked for me, but could just be that my little tyrant understands cats really well, she acts just like one, even says meow.

 

ugh...this drives me nuts.....if your pets are harming your child, the pets gotta go, or your kid needs to learn to respect the animal. But I love my kitties, you will probably say. It is a damn animal, it gets no rights over humans. Get over it!!!!

 

It's not the cats fault she tortures them. This happens with all kids. It will pass. No need to go throwing cats out all willy nilly.

 

Who lit the fuse on your tampon?

I'm pretty sure a less-drastic solution can be found for this problem. You've obviously never owned a pet.

 

yes, I have owned pets, and in my world, kids will always come first. So what, you are gonna hope that the kid and the cat learn to like eachother?? And in the meantime, hopefully the kid doesn't get seriously hurt. People get so obsessed with there pets that they lose sight of what is important. It is an animal, think of your family first.

 

you're a tad ridiculous. overreact much?

there's no doubt my daughter adores the cats, and to be frank, when she's till, they cuddle her constantly. it's just TOO MUCH LOVE. like that big dumb dog in the old WB cartoons.

 

Jack is the same way with our cat. I get mad because I feel bad for the kitty, I dont want him to get hurt and also I dont want him to hurt Jack. Whenever I find him doing something to the cat, pulling his tail, or picking him up by a leg I tell him to not be mean to the kitty or I tell him not to do that. He gets sad and throws himself in the floor and says "Aura. I miss you Aura", because he knows Im mad at him, but give him a couple of minutes and the story will be repeating itself.

 

My cousin has a 3 year old daughter who likes to pick the dog up by its neck.

 

so, i taught joey that that sound my cat's are making when she hurts them means "OW!" it makes her stop. it's AWESOME. finally, something sank in. that baby girl is so damned hard headed, she's just like her father.

 

I am glad you got thru to your child. Cat scratches can make a person sick.