• _pete_@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Suffocation. Cats falls asleep where it’s nice and warm, like around a kids face.

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        10 months ago

        Aha you are officially my grandmother, LOL.

        “The notion that your cat will smell the milk on your baby’s breath and suffocate it is an old wive’s tale – one that was even published in medical journals in the early 1900s. “There is a real danger of a fatal termination by suffocation,” a 1905 pediatric journal reads.”

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          10 months ago

          To be fair I have absolutely woken up because my cat was asleep on my face and was making breathing difficult. Little dude just likes to cuddle up and get cosy. I have no idea if kids are actually ever accidentally suffocated by cats, but I can totally see how the concern would get started