Comments on: 3 Reasons Why You Should Let Your Kids Get a Cat https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/ Helping Moms Enjoy Their Life, Kids and Family More Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 By: Melanie Hawk https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30941 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:23:21 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30941 We have two cats. Halo is a beautiful female white with some grey siamese cat. Mr. Pickles is Halo’s brother and he is all black with big yellow eyes siamese cat. We rescued these two kitties 2 1/2 years ago. We also have an 8 year old blue wiemerinier dog named Bella, and she is a rescue dog. My home is me, two boys aged 14 and 8, 2 kitties, and one dog (and yes we all fit into my bed for those rare days we snuggle and watch movies). My youngest son is a special needs child. Halo is his best friend and is basically his therapy cat. She is amazing with him! Bella and Mr. Pickles are bestest of friends. He follows her, guides her, and makes sure her food bowl is full (he is very concerned about Bella and tells me when to feed her). We all three participate in the care of all three animals. I do clean out the litter box and pick up doggie poop. I just feel that is my job. My special needs child feeds Halo as part of his chores. My oldest son feeds Mr. Pickles as part of his chores. I feed Bella. Our kitties love to play ball, hide and go seek, play “boo”, and are the best snugglers. I am a single mother with 5 kiddos I often say. Two children, two kitties and one dog. Life is full of blessings. 🙂

]]> By: star https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30937 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 21:28:08 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30937 Our cat Lenny was 3 when our daughter was born. He followed me and sat on the bed whenever I nursed. He would paw at me when she cried but when she became mobile he started running away. He did swat at her a few times and barely got her once, pretty close to her eye. We knew he didn’t mean it he was just scared by her. But we did have to keep a close watch over them for awhile. Our daughter loves Lenny and keeps trying. She’s now almost 3 and he’s just starting to let her pet him. He still paws me when she cries.

]]> By: jodi https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30929 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:40:33 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30929 In reply to jodi.

My daughter LOVES helping take care of Kitty…except the litter box!

]]> By: jodi https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30928 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:39:40 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30928 We had one cat we adopted about 2 years ago. My daughter named her Super Starlight. But EVERYONE (including my daughter) calls her kitty for short. This year for Christmas we adopted a second kitten (it’s a surprise for my daughter) so she does not have a name yet. We are all guessing at what she will come up with! So far our guesses are: C’mere, Ivana and Cat.
That way she can call both kitties at the same time
“C’mere, kitty”
“Ivana Kitty”
“Kitty Cat”

]]> By: Samantha D https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30914 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 03:38:33 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30914 We have 2 cats. One is a rescue named Darnell but we call him Mr. Meowgi. My 1 1/2 year old loves to cuddle and pet him. He has learned alot about being gentle from him and Darnell has started coming over to him to get attention. Our other is from a farm and is fuzzy. She is still pretty nervous around our little guy and has only started being brave enough to stay in the same too with him. Our little guy hasn’t done any chores yet with the cats but loves playing, petting, and cuddling.

]]> By: Tara Short https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30897 Sat, 19 Dec 2015 21:48:23 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30897 I have an indoor kitty named Miss Ellie Cat. The kids enjoy playing with her and snuggling up on the couch together. 🙂

]]> By: Amy Z. https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30886 Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:14:15 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30886 Our cat’s name is Mochi! My daughter loves getting to help feed her and play with her.

]]> By: Marlene maguire https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30862 Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:48:16 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30862 Cat cat I love my cats

]]> By: Walt https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30830 Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:44:43 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30830 We brought this itty-.bitty puff ball home last June. Our two year old daughter got to hold him for the first time, hugging him snugly in her car seat. It was love at first sight. We brought him home, welcomed him into this new, strange, scary world, and little Lo was right there, walking him through the house, introducing him to his cat house and cat in house-out house. My wife named him Samwise Gamgee, because she knew that this particular creature would become one of the best friends ever. Now a year on, Lo makes sure her Samwise is taken care of, she helps feed him and makes sure his water is always full. When she cries, Sam is there. When she is restless, Sam is there. When she needs a friend, Sam is there.

]]> By: Sandi https://www.therealisticmama.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-your-kids-get-a-cat/#comment-30829 Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:38:15 +0000 https://www.therealisticmama.com/?p=6977#comment-30829 Our 2 cats which I have rescued are named Kayna and Mr. Kitty.

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