I basically kick my cat all the time, and I'm still her favorite person in the household. She will run out ahead of me and stand there pretty much waiting for it. If it's not a very old cat it will be fine if your mom bumps it a bit, they're a little tougher than we think they should be.

Dude I straight up sat on a cat one time, and not gently either. He was in my chair and I didn't notice. It was a nice padded office chair and I plopped right into it, except this time, it wasn't into the chair, it was onto the cat. I was horrified, I jumped up as quick as I can and he took off running. I thought for sure I'd killed him, that he'd have some sort of internal injury. Nope, he was fine.

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I'm not saying that to try to be like nah its ok, no matter what you do to them, they'll be fine. However, if something does accidentally happen, the cat should be fine.

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I even... and this one is even harder to say because I felt sick after, but I kicked my cat down the steps accidentally. She had this habit of running out in front of people on the stair case. I ran down three steps and on the fourth, bang, I sent her flying. She went out of control down the steps sounding like she was sideways, and the thunk as she hit the front door where you'd normally turn right... Oh god I felt sick, I thought I'd hurt her badly or even killed her, but again, she was fine. She even came back to me relatively quickly. I wanted to check her over to see if she was bleeding or anything, so I meowed until she came back. Yeah, not pleasant and I may have cried a little.

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My point is that cats are tougher than you think.