Dogs living with cats

[Janis]

thankfully my two get on with my three cats and one in particular! inca just loves murphy and it is a lickfest of devotion every morning when inca gets up! poor murphy just stands there while inca descends her wet tongue all over her, tail and bottom rapidly wagging at the same time! you can read murphy's mind while this is going on! "not long now, she's run out of salivia soon!"

then it's a case of settling down and inca gypsy and murphy can settle down together! it's really nice to see them lying back to back sharing the body heat!

as for my other two diesel and yosser they just do their own thing but murphy does have a special place with the dogs! there is no rivalry or spats they just get along!

[suzanne l]

our pets have always gotten on with each other, and we've introduced cats to dogs and vice versa. i think a home environment is different, breno and brodie would never touch boston in the house and they all get on, but would chase him if they saw him outside, possibly not realising it was him... over time most relationships will work out, even if its just that they all ignore each other.
breno and brodie got on with the family rabbit and all 4 animals could lie out in garden together, old neighnour said it was the funniest thing she had seen got pictures of the dogs lying asleep with this dwarf rabbit asleep in their tails, so cute!!
my kitten is 8months old now and im getting my pup end of jan, so im hoping all will go well as they are still so young, banjo is a confident wee cat and dealt with breno and brodie together so im sure a wee pup will be fine.....i hope!
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your cat will never annoy by barking at 3am, he wont attack the postman or eat the curtains, although he may climb them to see how the room looks from the ceiling...

[marcella]

[suzanne l]

i'll say to my mum to bring them in
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your cat will never annoy by barking at 3am, he wont attack the postman or eat the curtains, although he may climb them to see how the room looks from the ceiling...

[shirley c]

Yes I do think some dogs will never get on with cats but most of them do learn...it depends on a lot of work though

When we did grehound re homing one of the things we did was cat test and there are 3 types of dog. 1 one who even after being a racing greyhound chasing a mechanical hare for a few years wont look a cat in the eye, 2 the ones that even the sent of the cat drives them wild and nothing in this earth will let you get them used to being with cats and 3 the ones who really want to taste that cat but who can be persuaded that no, cats are not a snack in between meals

The cat killers you know withing 2 seconds...oh and our cats were never in any danger during this cat testing...honest
and I dont think Bob or Dodge are in this category..I think no3 is what they are, no 2s you know no matter what you are never going to get it to work so why bother
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lurchers Pixel and Zev and whippet, Fen
3 cats, Greebo, Yu and Lexx - 2 ferrets and Dales pony Jazz and adopted pony, April

[Nicola]

[Allan Campbell]

nicola ..disgusted or not .. apart from catching and killing rabbits ... protection of my birds... (pigeons and parrots worth thousands of pounds) was her job and her purpose in life ... you can be as disgusted as you like ... but feral cats and cats that no'one bothers with are a big problem to bird keepers .. and i make no apologies for this fact
when cat owners start to take responsibility for their animals .. they will be safe until then if my dogs get a feral cat ... no big deal . its one less murdering scum on the face of this planet ... remember however im a cat owner .. but i take the responsibility for my cats actions ..

again ... i make no apologies ... i may be less than popular after this post .. but my dogs work for a living .. they are more than pets
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[Susan]

Our cat Freya will not tolerate Rufus! He is desperate to play with her, and stands wagging his tail, but the noises that she makes to him! And she has caught him on the nose once too, so now I have given up trying to integrate them and just keep them seperate. I do feel a bit bad for Freya, as it was her house first, but really it is her choice not to talk to him! She is not in the slightest bit scared of him, and is still happy enough to sit on top of the sofa where he can't get her!

[linsey]

[Fiona]

I don't think less of you Allan, I already had a low opinion of you Only kidding!

In my opinion if a dog kills a cat it should not even be considered being PTS, come on honestly?!? Yeah ok steps should be taken to prevent it ever happening again but to even consider such drastic steps is beyond me!
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[Suzanne H]

I'd love to get a cat, but Ian hates them and I doubt very much it would be safe from Otto.

He's a big softy, but cats and birds are for chasing. I also saw what he did to a dead rabbit. Gross.

I think it depends on the breed maybe - dogs bred to retrieve and hunt, will probably do just that with a cat.

But cats are not daft - we used to have a cat regularly poo in our garden. Doesn't now.

[linsey]

[kirsty]

Alan I dont think anything less of you.

You and Shirley certainly live in a world which I have no experience of - having never been in the vicinity of working dogs, working ferrets etc - so I am in no position to judge your values regarding your animals. All I know of you is what I have seen and you seem to love your pets, they are well cared for and happy (even though pixel would have us believe she is half starved and her only sustenance the treats she manages to scrounge)

I think you talk a lot of dog sense and have certainly helped me in my early days with Dodge and his dominance/aggression. (and helped me about left turning him on a one to one basis when you take the floor and do some dog training in our training class)

[Nicola]

[linsey]

D'ya think it will be a competition to see who can get the last word in again?!
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