# Cat scratching/biting baby: solutions?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-scratching-biting-baby-solutions/594228>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 26, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-scratching-biting-baby-solutions/594228 "2011-08-26T21:40:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-scratching-biting-baby-solutions/594228/81 "2011-09-03T22:21:45Z")

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One of our cats scratched our baby. It hasn’t happened since, and we managed to ameliorate the situation without butchering the cat or setting it loose in the woods. With both pets and babies behaviors can be taught. The baby – now one year old – has already learned not to yank on the cats fur or pull their tails. For their part, the cats have learned to stay away from the kid.

It’s a cat. Not a doberman.

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