The call I just got was a bit strange. The mother wants a cat for her family while admitting her 2 year old daughter likes to drag them around by the tail and maul them! While it is refreshing to have a mother to be so upfront about this behavior, it also just reinforces our policy. It is very rare that we adopt to a family with kids under the age of two, just for that reason alone. They are to young to  understand how to properly treat cats unless they have the right parents who have taught them right from wrong. I think they equate cats with dolls or something, although I grew up with cats sleeping in my crib and never mauled them. Some of the photos of me carrying these large cats make me cringe- as they were so big- I couldn’t carry them properly. But I never dragged them around by their ears or their tail or my parents would have tanned my hide.