To cry because I accidentally hurt my cat?

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He was lying on my lap and I was reading a quite heavy book. He fidgeted around and stood up, making me lose my grip on the book, which fell on him. He leapt up and ran under the table, and spat at me He was clearly terrified. He then hid behind the sofa. He is a rescue cat and that's what he did when I first got him home. He does it when he's really scared.

I sat with him and talked softly to him and eventually he came out. He is still nervous though. Heartbreaking to see him scared of me . Luckily he is not hurt.

NB: I may be a little hormonal.

9 years i have been fooled. he fools everyone as he seems well stoned all the time :)

i can not help thinking the little cat that is hanging around our garden is influencing him. i think this is more likely she looks like the cat reading in the Cravendale advert 'Cats with Thumbs'

I bloody love cats they are like Evil Genuis's or is that genui

I shut the kittens paw in the dishwasher. He went REOOOAAAWWW and limped away whimpering. I found him under the chair licking his paw.

I rang the vet and took him down there - by the time I got there I was doing that awful sobbing, shaky thing, poor bloody vet had to calm me down, before telling me that his paw was absolutely fine.

My DDs father had died the previous week so it was really just massive reaction to that - but it took me a while to be able to tell the vet that

You seem ok. :)

He will have realised that you didn't mean to, despite the fright.

Sadly I injure my cat all the time because he'll get under my feet when I'm moving around, without me noticing it.

Thankfully he's never been seriously injured. I tend to step on his paw, but not hard and I'm not that heavy.

However, exH did manage to injure him badly (I hope by accident, but not 100% sure) and I had to take him to the vet the following day .

Aww I'm sure he's ok. I Once took off my shoes in the living room and threw them into the hallway, the cat appeared at exactly the wrong time and got clonked by a flying converse. He was fine but I felt so guilty.

He's had a paw trodden on before, although not very hard, and that made him scuttle and then sulk for a bit, but this was different - he was terrified!

He has forgiven me now. We had lovely purry cuddles and made friends again.