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Today was very confusing and not very good. They put me next to the baby human and it just stared at me, making stupid noises. Then its mouth curled in a funny way and it reached out and grabbed hold of my tail hard. It was agonisingly painful and I couldn't help myself - I hit the baby. Not hard, but I must have scratched it, because blood dripped from its paw and it started to scream.

The female human ran in and slapped me. REALLY HARD.

I was so surprised I just stared at her for a moment. No human had ever done that to me before. She started yelling at me and I looked away, embarrassed.

There's no point yelling at me! I can't understand a word you're saying, I wanted to tell her. Then she picked me up and put me in my room and shut the door.

Later the woman put me near the baby again to see what would happen. It was asleep so I curled up next to it and started purring. I think the baby liked that and the woman certainly did because she gave me some milk, which I drank and she patted me. Milk I can take or leave, but she obviously wanted to tell me I was a Good Cat.

Later on she put me in with the baby human again and it wasn't so good, because the baby chased me all round the room. I hid behind the woman but the baby grabbed my tail again and pulled it hard and I must have hit the baby again. Then the woman slapped me hard and I hid in the corner of the room. Then she picked me up, grabbing hold of my fur at the back of my neck, and she put me back in my room.

I wondered when she'd let me out again but she didn't. I had food and my box and my dirt tray and I thought I'd just wait it out until she wasn't mad at me any more. It was a boring night, except that one of the other humans (a smaller one) came and picked me up and hugged me. She was holding me tighter than I wanted but it wasn't too bad. Then I got short of breath so I struggled a bit, and the small human let me go and sat down suddenly. Then she started crying, and I pressed my nose against her face. She was really upset and I didn't know why.