Cats misbehave all the time. That's part of the deal. You should know that before adopting a cat - that cats causing chaos is just what cats do. The vast majority of the time, they will be chill, lying on the couch, cleaning themselves, napping in random locations. But during that other little bit of time… they'll be causing chaos. Heck, it's why we love them. Sure, we love their calmness, but life would be so boring without their shenanigans as well.
Never in our lives did it cross our minds to hit our cats for "misbehaving". We may point a spray bottle at them when they scratch our sofa or sternly say the word "no" when they attempt to knock a glass off our table, but hitting them? No. That's way out of line. And if we caught our future child hitting our cat, you can bet that we would not react the way this mom did - we would put a stop to it immediately. We would teach our child what's right and wrong. Our cats would not need to be rescued. This cat did need it.
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