IttyBittyKitty, that's what I was talking about - the cat smothering thing. But I didn't want to say it out loud, in case anybody by any chance hadn't heard it - I didn't want to spread a cat-unfriendly rumor.

Mothers of new babies are absolutely terrified by that story!!!

In fact a few months ago I was pregnant (miscarried unfortunately). You know how the hormones fly during pregnancy and you start getting all wierd and paranoid? I had decided that I was going to put a screen door on the baby's room so that at night I could hear the baby if it cried, yet the cats couldn't go in there and innocently fall asleep on its face.

The entire time I was pregnant the first time, and for like 4 years after I had my son, I was FREAKY! I was so paranoid something was going to happen. I got up several times a night to make sure he was breathing. I just knew for sure that something bad was going to happen to him.

So anyway Wolf-Q - in about 4 years maybe your cousin will realize that she was being utterly ridiculous as a result of her hormones and intense motherly instinct. She'll want the cats back. But until then she'll be convinced that she was right.