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Taylor Swift is embarking on her greatest challenge — trying to convince Jason Kelce’s daughters to be cat lovers
The singer spoke about how she introduced Jason’s four girls to her cats during a podcast appearance
Jason has previously shared that he’s trying to deter his family from getting a cat by telling them cats are poisonous
Taylor Swift has found her greatest challenge yet — making Jason Kelce’s daughters cat lovers.
The “Cruel Summer” singer, 35, appeared on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights and was asked by the Kansas City Chiefs tight end about his brother telling his four daughters that cats are poisonous.
“It was actually really a great challenge because as soon as I got the kids around the cats, it was my goal to prove to them that they weren’t poisonous,” Swift explained. “And there’s no better way to prove that than to just hand them Benjamin, my rag doll cat, who lets humans hold him like he’s a baby.”
“And I mean, my favorite thing ever is when [Jason’s daughter] Benny will come up to me and just go, ‘I find Benjamin. I find him,’ ” she continued. “And she’s just like over there, laying with him and petting him and holding him.”
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The musician went on to say that her cats are “so good” with kids, especially since Jason’s daughters will just “drag” them.
“They’re just like, ‘Meredith is here!’ ” Swift said, mimicking Jason’s daughters’ voices. “I’m like, ‘Yup. And you know what? She didn’t bite you at all, did she? And if she did bite you, she wouldn’t be poisonous.’ They’re like, ‘That’s not what our dad said.’ And I’m like, ‘Well.’”
Swift then went on to say that she had heard Jason and his family were getting a cat from a very “well-placed source.”
“I will neither confirm nor deny. We’ll see if it does get to that,” Jason replied.
“You’re getting like a proper cat. You’re getting a cat that chases mice,” Swift said. “What I have are not that. They sit around, and that’s enough.”
“There’s a chance I’ve been talked into a barn cat,” Jason admitted. “That does not go inside, that will survive off of rodents in the field and guard our house.”
“Those girls are going to be sneaking that cat into their beds every single night,” Swift predicted.
Jason went on to joke that this exact situation is “why I lie to my kids,” saying he wants them to be “critical thinkers.”
“They need to realize it’s absurd to think this, and you handing them Benjamin and then walking them through critical thinking ability. Now all of a sudden they won’t believe something that every moron tells them on the Internet, right?” Jason joked.
“Yeah, it was really like, I know it wasn’t helpful for you, but it was helpful for me,” Swift replied.
Last September, Jason shared on an episode of his podcast that he told his daughters that cats “are poisonous” in an attempt to stop them from bringing a feline home.
“You know what my latest plan to divert our family from getting a cat is? I just keep telling our girls that cats are poisonous,” Jason revealed. “Why the f— would you tell them that?” Travis sked.
“… So that they don’t want cats,” explained Jason. “And I don’t have to deal with having a cat and make them terrified.”
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