Toddlers and cats

[springbabydays]

My ds loves our cats, he's fascinated with them and rightly so. However he gets incredibly over excited in their presence and unfortunately he is so loud that they scarper. I can't blame them. He's fairly gentle with them physically and we always supervise any interaction, but it's the high pitched squealing which sends them packing. I wish there was something I could do but he's too young to actually explain to. Anyone got any tips? Also hoping the cats won't always think of him as a noisy scary thing

I have a 2.5 yo cat botherer and an occasionally skittish rescue cat. The cat scarpers up stairs when dd gets too friendly around him. I've put a blanket on a sunny windowsill for him to encourage home to use it as somewhere to escape to. Older dd (4) just ignores the cat most of the time so I'm hoping the younger one will grow out of it soon.

Our own cat is quite good about the squealing but other cats tend to just run off when dd approaches all excited wanting to pet the cat. I suppose it depends on the cat, perhaps some cats are used to squealy toddlers.

Thank you BoftheP I guess it does depend on the cat, and one of ours is a lot more tolerant than the other. Ds squeaks at anything small and furry, so cute but also problematic! I ensure the cats always have an escape route as I don't want them to leave home! And hope this phase passes soon, although he's only 19 months so I think I'll have a bit of a wait.

*squeals not squeaks. If he only squeaked then I wouldn't have this problem!!