Anyone With Cats?

[bird 9,862]

Yep always have a cat amongst my dogs ... Nothing worse than doing a lucrative job in some big posh garden and your lurcher shakes the death out of trixibell the prize Persian lol .....

 

brill ken

[Dawn B 212]

My Terriers are lovely with my Cats, but not any one elses.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

We got a cat. Widget. He`s pretty cool, even though Im not a cat person. The cat will play fight with the small Russell, but gives the Pat a wide swerve, shes not as gentle lol. Generally the terriers leave him be, unless theres tit bits involved and the Russell will then chase him off. All other cats outside are fair game according to the terriers.

[skycat 6,173]

Yup, definite advantages to bringing a dog up with cats. Sparrow, the merle in the photo, has killed feral cats when out hunting, but knew full well that a cat in a farm yard at the end of a ferreting session was not the same thing as a cat in game cover on a shoot.

She wasn't happy at this cat trying to steal the kidneys from these rabbits, but she wouldn't have dared try anything on. Dogs learn in context: so a cat in a farm yard, or at home in the garden is different to one way out in the wilds. But they do need to be brought up seeing cats in different situations before you can say that they are safe with domestic moggies, and you can never say never! It only takes a wrong behaviour on the part of the cat, or put the dog in a highly charged state of excitement in full-on hunting mode and the training can slip. Bushing a big old tom out of a bramble when the dogs are all expecting a fox is a good example!

 

I did have one fox killing lurcher who would never touch a cat, anywhere, feral or not. She just loved all cats, and looked horrified if the terriers killed a feral cat out on the shoots: highly evolved dog? Or just one that associated cats with her time as a pup at home: she slept all the time with our cat.

 

What Sparrow is really saying in this photo is: I know your'e a cat, and cats are forbidden, but if that camera wasn't pointing my way I'd teach you not to steal my rabbits.

[tsteve9999 456]

Yup, definite advantages to bringing a dog up with cats. Sparrow, the merle in the photo, has killed feral cats when out hunting, but knew full well that a cat in a farm yard at the end of a ferreting session was not the same thing as a cat in game cover on a shoot.

She wasn't happy at this cat trying to steal the kidneys from these rabbits, but she wouldn't have dared try anything on. Dogs learn in context: so a cat in a farm yard, or at home in the garden is different to one way out in the wilds. But they do need to be brought up seeing cats in different situations before you can say that they are safe with domestic moggies, and you can never say never! It only takes a wrong behaviour on the part of the cat, or put the dog in a highly charged state of excitement in full-on hunting mode and the training can slip. Bushing a big old tom out of a bramble when the dogs are all expecting a fox is a good example!

 

I did have one fox killing lurcher who would never touch a cat, anywhere, feral or not. She just loved all cats, and looked horrified if the terriers killed a feral cat out on the shoots: highly evolved dog? Or just one that associated cats with her time as a pup at home: she slept all the time with our cat.

 

 

Happened to me a few months ago, Mouse was at the back door thinking a fox was by the chicken pen, I opened the door and as he flew up the garden our cat was in front of him. He picked her up as sweet as a nut, ran a couple of paces and then spat her out and carried on. He's lived with her from a pup and never been aggressive at all to her and thankfully she wasn't hurt but I'm a bit more careful now

[jcm 2,327]

My digs live with a cat and will not bat an eye lid at it but will kill another cat

[planete 120]

I did manage to teach a four year old greyhound bitch just out of training to be friends with the old cat we had at the time but I would not try it again. I had to muzzle the bitch in the house for the first week and the penny only dropped the day I managed to grab her as she went flying by me behind the cat in the entrance hall. She got told off in no uncertain terms and I still recall the astonished look she gave me at the time but she got the point and never chased the cat again. They ended up sleeping together while we were out at work. Outside the house she was still a fiend if she saw a cat though. I think the only really safe way is to bring them up together.

 

She was scared of the stairs when she arrived, but not after chasing the cat up and down them!

[pointer 543]

There's nothing much worse than killing a farm cat right in front of the farmer. When lamping rats with dogs they can turn up anywhere just like chickens so dogs have to be 100% steady to them.

Feral cats can be different and mine have killed a couple of them but dogs aren't stupid. All my dogs would have tried to catch a pheasant out in the open but they know that when ratting around release pens they aren't to be touched.

[alex1987 164]

We have two cats and all the dogs get on with both of them but any other cat they pull my arm off trying to get at. They will eat with our cats and when the cats follow us on a walk they are very protective of them should another dog eye either of them up.