Has anyone heard of cats killing people by sitting on their faces when they are asleep?
2007-08-10 01:41:10 · 27 answers · asked by Arminius 4 in Pets ➔ Cats
My cat does sit on my face at night, and it wakes me up because I can't breath. I would not let my cat with a baby because she could sit on the baby's face as well with horrible consequences.
My cats always run in the stairs when I am going up and down: they can make people fall....
so 2 ways a cat could kill someone: sit in the face of people and they don't wake up or can't move (newborns)
cats make you fall in the stairs and you die because of a bad fall.
yes! also diseases spread by cats for people with AIDS (toxoplasmosis)
that's all I can think of.
EDIT: BTW people who say it's old tales thing don't know that newborns can't move if a 15lb cat sit on their face. It happened before. and newborns are people. It's rare but it happens. and I won't let my cat be in the same room with a sleeping paralized person or a sleeping newborn.
2007-08-10 03:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mango 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-19 12:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not have a cat in the same room as a sleeping baby. Only because I think they would find the warmth of the sleeping area a good place to be and may lie on the babys face.
2007-08-10 03:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by dexter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think .. but i was watching a show called good pets gone bad and this ladie was shopping in a drug store with her little dog little did she know a cat was stalking her up on the shelves before she knew it a cat was malling and scratching and biting her face you should have seen her face covered in blood cuts scars rela deep cuts !!! luckily the small dog started barking and distracted the cat and she got the cat off .... the cat was let in on porpus this cat was ment to keep mice away ffrom the meds and other stuff in the stoor not people .... but this woman was covered in cuts and scrapes and full of blood in was real crazy so be care ful around wild cats specially when there just there to hunt !!
2007-08-10 08:17:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a baby's face, yes. it happened to my mom's neighbour back in the 1960's - She'd put the baby outside in the pram, under the (open) kitchen window so she could her it if the baby cried. She went out to bring the baby in for her lunch, and the cat was sitting on her face and had smothered her. My mom moved not long after - the mother was in a mental institution for a good while after
2007-08-10 02:16:36 · answer #5 · answered by merciasounds 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And anyway the people would have to be drugged. A normal person will wake up if he can't breath. Plus the cat may only cuddle up on you becuse of love and affection, the only way cats use to attack is their claws and teeth.
2007-08-10 01:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ranks along with cats'stealing babies breath'. Probably stems from the fact that cats like comfortable places to sleep. None of mine ever tried to sleep on my face, however!
2007-08-10 02:17:04 · answer #7 · answered by Terri B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have two. One's geriatric... but tries hard! The other one's younger, behaves like a dog, and has a following of younger cats behind her. Always a house full! Yeah, they definately 'kill' me! Love 'em!
2007-08-10 07:43:59 · answer #8 · answered by bfly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose they could suffocate you if you didnt realsie they were laying on your face whilst asleep however when my bf's mum was little a cat scratched her behind her ear, it became infected and a big bump appeared full of puss and the dr. told her that it was about to pop and if it had it would have killed her because the puss was posinous!
oh and another thing... my mums ex husbands mums cat used to sleep on her face while she was asleep but she always used to wake up!!!!
2007-08-10 01:55:22 · answer #9 · answered by karla o 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not true at all. I have heard of it but it is only a tale. Don't you think if you were asleep you would feel a cat sitting on your face?!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxx
2007-08-10 01:46:01 · answer #10 · answered by emzie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋