Following a recent tragedy where a family’s cat smothered a six week old baby, parents are being warned afresh about the potential threat of suffocation from household pets.
In the incident that recently hit the news, little Kieron Johnson stopped breathing during the night after the household pet cat apparently settled down on his face to sleep. Despite strenuous revival efforts on the part of his parents and an ambulance crew, very sadly Kieron died.
RSPCA representative Janet Kipling was quoted in the national press as saying, ‘This sort of tragedy is extremely rare. Cats do try to curl up with anything that is warm and one would cover up most of a sleeping baby. Cats sleep on car bonnets and people’s laps because they are warm.’
Parents are being advised to take two key steps: to keep cats out of babies’ rooms and to ensure they use protective cat nets for on cots, prams and carrycots.
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