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To: Poet who wrote (2781)	10/16/2002 10:11:33 AM
From: Lost1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Dear Guide: I wonder if you can shed any light on the old wives' tale that cats can suck the air out of babies. My daughter-in-law's mother (a RN) says that cats get in the bed with babies and lick their mouths and then suck the air out of them and the babies die. Dear Reader: Well, it's false, obviously. Just take a close look at the shape of any cat's mouth and you can see it would have a devil of a time sucking the breath out of a baby (or anything else that breathes). Maybe they taught something different in your daughter-in-law's mother's nursing school, but if you ask me it's not felinely possible. According to some versions of the superstition, breath-sucking cats are attracted to infants by the scent of milk. Experts say that's bunk. Cats are curious by nature and love to curl up next to other warm bodies. If the cat's in the cradle, it's not likely looking for anything other than a comfy place to snooze. The notion that cats can suck the breath out of babies dates back hundreds of years. It probably derived from medieval beliefs associating felines with evil spirits and witchcraft. If it seems strange that people still buy into such nonsense, consider this: 80% of Americans polled by CNN truly believe the U.S. government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. I don't want to alarm anyone, but how do we know space aliens aren't just as attracted to the scent of milk as cats are? urbanlegends.about.com

To: Poet who wrote (2781)	10/16/2002 11:46:17 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

In NYC lots of people pay $15 an hour. And if you figure that not many babysitters are paying taxes on that, hey, not bad. And you get to play with darling children! (Or, of course, the other kind.)