On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:07:56 PM UTC-4, joy wrote:
On 9/28/2018 11:19 AM, Judith Latham wrote:
In article , Bill
Stock wrote:
The relatives arrived today and brought a couple of their dawgs, because
they had a sitter issue. Fortunately the large Bulldog stayed in the car
(no it was not hot today), but the miniature BD came inside. It stayed
in its crate for the most part, but Smokey stayed in bed, claiming not
to know it was here. Sure. When they were getting ready to leave Smokey
came to the top of the stairs to look at this weird looking thing. She
continued to watch it, even after it went outside for a pre-trip pee.
The dawg has a lazy eye among other health issues, so I don't think it
ever saw Smokey, at least not that it would admit. ( # ω # )

Smokey was good to just pretend it wasn't happening. I've never seen how
any of my cats wood react to dogs. It would be nice to know but it could
traumatise us all, animals and humans alike.

Judith


At one time in the past, I had two cats. My parents had a small dog.
They came for a visit and brought the dog. She was used to chasing
cats. She saw one of mine lying down in the back yard and tried to
chase him. He wouldn't run. He just laid there. The dog ran up to the
cat and pushed her nose into his side. He just looked at her. She gave
up. Later she found the other cat and tried to chase him. She didn't
know he was a retired champion. In our old neighborhood he had all the
cats and most of the dogs terrorized. He retired when we moved here,
but she brought him out of retirement. For the rest of the visit, the
dog stayed close to my parents and didn't see any cats.

When I was a youngster (before the flood) we had a small Persian mix, Fluffy who was an indoor/outdoor cat. She would have her kittens in the bush near the house. One day the neighbour's Irish Setter was snooping around her kittens, so Fluffy decided to play Cowgirl and ride the dog back home. I think the dog got the point.

Smokey is a lover, not a fighter.