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Conference misery::feline

Title:Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
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Moderator:JULIET::CORDES_JA
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1079
Total number of notes:28858

869.0. "cat/human pregancy" by NEACS1::WENZEL () Mon Mar 27 1995 13:42

    This may sound strange but do cats know/understand when their
    human mom is pregnant?  I am about four and a half months pregnant
    and swear that my little Ashley knows what is in there!!!  She
    has recently taken up  sleeping ON my stomach (it's okay - she
    only weighs about 8 lbs) which she never did.  If she is not sleeping
    on it she has to be near it.  As soon as I sit down she finds her
    spot.  Even if I roll over in bed she'll hop to the other side of me.
    My husband swears she knows exactly what's going on.  She is not a 
    real affectionate lap cat so I'm kind of enjoying her company. 
    Anyone else experience this or have any stories related.  
    Maybe I'm having kittens!!!!
    
    Susan.
    
    
    
    
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869.1TRACTR::JENNISONThe Angel Opens Her EyesMon Mar 27 1995 14:254
    I think that is wonderfuL! She must sense a living being because
    of the warmth and heartbeat? Shes protecting the little one!
    
    SueJ
869.2DEMON::AIKEYTue Mar 28 1995 07:5619
    
    Just recently my cousin informed us that she is having another baby..  She
    comes to visit every Sunday with her son now..  Since she has told us
    of her upcoming arrival Shilo must greet her...  My cousin has been
    coming to my house on Sundays since I can't remember...  Shilo didn't
    want to have anything to do with her or her son, (who is 3), but since
    she told us that she is having baby he jumps on the back of the couch
    were she is sitting.. He needs to put his nose on hers..  Once he has
    done this he leaves.  It is almost like he is checking to see if she is
    okay and when he sees that she is he leaves.  
    
    I think my daugther read it in the Cat Fancy that the know when there
    is a new arrival coming...
    
    Best of luck to you and your family!!
    
    *joyce and the boys
    
     
869.3I'd be surprised if they *didn't* knowUSCTR1::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketTue Mar 28 1995 10:057
    Well, many of us believe cats can read auras; it certainly seemed
    apparent when I was pregnant that my cat could see the new aura within! 
    She had never been a lap cat (always a beside-the-lap cat) but became
    one for the pregnancy.  And this was well before any kicks were
    apparent, which for me was 16 weeks.
    
    Leslie
869.4TOOK::GASKELLThu Mar 30 1995 08:4610
    Don't know about pregnancy, but one of my cats (Tigger) knew
    which knee (left) I had just had arthoscopic surgery on -- he would wake
    me up by putting his front paws on the injured knee and then resting
    his weight on it.  It woke me up all right.  He never did it to
    my right leg, or after the knee recovered.
    
    As Tigger is a good 14 lbs, it's a good job I've had my family and
    she's large enough to take care of herself.  (Actually, she has her
    own cat problems.  Christopher has just had his first Spring abcess.
    She's $94 poorer today.)
869.5catspeakPOLAR::WILSONCFri Mar 31 1995 18:525
    Cats know everything you are saying and doing. The only problem is they
    translate everything into catspeak. My girlfriend and I are splitting
    up and my cat Q.D. is spending an unusual amount of time on my
    girlfriends lap. Never assume your cat doesn't know whats going on
    around them.
869.6Cats know!WMOIS::FLECK_SThu Apr 06 1995 09:456
    	A friend of mine who is due to have her baby May 5th, said just
    recently her cat has taken to laying on or against her belly.  The cat
    didn't ever lay with her only her husband before she got pregnant.  
    Let's face it.....Cats know everything thats going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Sue
869.7RDGE44::ALEUC8Thu Apr 06 1995 09:504
    this is the spookiest string of notes i have ever read!
    
    ric
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869.8GOOEY::JUDYThat's Ms. Bitch to you!Fri Apr 07 1995 08:409
    
    
    	ric,
    
    	Why?
    
    	Hi Sue!  It's Judy Morrissey in case you're wondering
    	who the heck is saying hi to you.  =)
    
869.9RDGE44::ALEUC8Fri Apr 07 1995 09:456
    .8
    
    i don't know - it's just spooky
    
    ric$still_spooked
    8^{
869.10It would be interesting to know...STAR::SROBERTSONFri Apr 07 1995 10:4713
    It's funny that someone mentioned that their cat would have nothing to
    do with a "male" pregnancy (no offense meant).  I found with T, when I
    was pregnant with my daughter, she was all over me; constantly jumping
    from the floor into my arms and perching on my belly.  She used to rub
    my belly and puuuurrr non stop.  When I became pregnant with my son
    less than 3 years later, T would have nothing to do with 'the belly'. 
    
    There is absolutly NO doubt in my mind that cats are very sensitive to
    these kinds of things, they are psychic! ;)
    
    Oh well, my $0.02 worth...
    
    Sandra
869.11Like pheromones in insects!SHRCTR::SCHILTONWhen they said sit down,I stood upFri Apr 07 1995 11:3713
    Pregnancy aside, I'm convinced (at least in our house) that
    the cats sense the difference in the sexes and I put it down 
    to hormones.   
    
    The male cat, Max, clings to me, while the female cat, Daisy,
    is my husband's.  They are siblings, litter-mates who we got at
    the same time, so they've been in the house the exact same
    length of time and they each took to the human of the opposite
    sex.  (We didn't play favorites with one or the other).
    
    Hormones...that's what I figure.  What else could it be?!  
    
    Sue
869.12Ceasar the daddy?PCBUOA::GODDARDFri Apr 07 1995 12:2210
    Arn't cats the best!  Last year at this time I was pregnant with my
    first (only) baby.  At the time we had 4 cats (spike, weedles, Ceasar,
    and Calvin).  All of the cats were extremely affectionate during my
    pregnancy especially Ceasar he would constantly sit in my lap wrapping
    himself around my belly, resting his head on the top of it.  My husband
    kept joking that maybe he (ceaser) thinks he is the father!  Now that
    my son has arrived Ceasar wants nothing to do with him, but is still
    the favorite lap cat minus the baby belly.
    
    Bonnie