We own a cat — actually, he owns my husband — but I am particular about germs getting on the grandbabies.
Our cat actually wound up napping with the visiting 2-year-old recently, and I did not freak. But I would not be happy about having someone else’s cat near an infant in my care.
Yes, I have always been pretty cautious about cleanliness, gleaming surfaces, and so on.
Then I was cat-napped by a feral cat, and then the little buddy we brought in for him-—end of hygiene, end of sparkling floors and polished tables.
I am a willing if now sloppy servant, like a species of prey who is allowed to live provided I cooperate. Call it the Stalk-home Syndrome.