She also recommends desensitizing the (poor) cat by playing a recording of a baby crying, and perhaps having a friend's child come over to play so the cat gets used to kids, and presumably is then less prone to a full blown freakout when sticky hands grab its tail.
Talks between the G7 industrialized nations and Russia - Serbia's sole friend and perhaps the only country that can draw Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into an acceptable political settlement - had been going well.