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37 sats \ 7 comments \ @flat24 10 Apr Animal_World

When I was a child, I remember having kittens 😺 and my grandmother had forbidden me from sleeping with cats in the same bed. She mentioned the following:

Cats can feel the throbbing of the main veins in the neck, and that attracts them to bite... They can attack you while you're asleep.

🙀🤯 WTF did my brain say 🧠!! And I never slept with the cat again.

I remembered this anecdote because while I was walking home from work, I saw a mother walking with her son, a little boy of at least 6 or 7 years old. The boy was carrying a small kitten in his arms, but he tried to rest it on his shoulder, and at that moment his mother said: "Son, don't put the cat on your shoulder, because it can bite your neck."

🤔💭 I immediately thought of what my grandmother said.

What do the Stackers think? True or False? Or just popular wisdom (obviously incorrect wisdom)

I'd love to read the opinions of the kitty-loving Stackers 😻 who obviously possess a lot of "feline" wisdom 😸

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 10 Apr

Why would the cat want to kill you in your sleep? You are its provider of food.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 OP 10 Apr

Why would the cat want to kill you in your sleep?

It is a great question, 😂 although that cat could easily keep on its own once it had grown, hunted mice, birds, and once I saw it trying to hunt a dove 🕊️

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 10 Apr

When I was born our family's Siamese cat would sleep with me in my crib. My Italian immigrant grandmother would scream at my parents that cats can kill babies by suffocating them. It was an old Italian superstition that started when people believed cats would suck the air out of babies' lungs.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 OP 10 Apr

That is the famous popular wisdom.

I honestly did not know about that superstition, thanks for commenting.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 10 Apr

Sounds like something parents would say to scare their kids instead of arguing with them about the real reason

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 OP 10 Apr

I totally agree, between superstitions and absurd beliefs often end up reasoning through ignorance. with the intention of using fear as a means of reprimanding children.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 11 Apr

My mother told me the same thing when I was little: in Venezuela, cats are very loved and abundant, and they can infect you with a disease called toxoplasmosis if they are not vaccinated.