Does your cat get along with your dog

Lilly and Tavia sound SOOO sweet! My dogs and cats don't love each other well enough to give kisses, but they do tolerate each other well. Our mixed breed (Molly) LOOOOVES my dog Maili (an Irish Setter) and will always cuddle with her whenever she can. She hates all the other cats, however, and isn't all that fond of humans, either. I think that Maili tolerates Molly, and certainly doesn't mind her company, but I wouldn't say she loves her, or would miss her if she were gone. Arek and Pipsi tolerate the dog, but I don't forsee any cuddling happening any time soon, and Amad (? still debating that name!) the 2yo Maine Coon has never been around dogs until he came to live with us, so he's still in the "iffy" stage of it all. Thankfully, my crazy hyper dog has learned some obedience, because we make her "sit" and "stay" whenever Amad comes around, and already he's getting more used to her. I think, as someone else said, it really depends on the dog. In all the time we've done rescue, we only had one dog who was truly bad with cats and it was more curiosity than aggression.

This is one of the cutest pics to show how much they like to cuddle.
And not sure if you can see Tavia and Tiny but they are curled up on dad's chair and that's Macy the boxer. And one final picture of the girls I guess the pics answered my questiong

All my dogs have been great with cats.... Gigi isnt great with other dogs but is awsome with cats.... If trained most dogs and cats with co habitate well together... I have been very lucky to have dogs that loved cats

LiLo and Napolean play all the time. Pause is more reserved with the dogs, but he'll sleep with them. They all get along really well. Napolean and LiLo grew up together so their pretty good playmates.

My Stumpy absolutely adores dogs. We got him when we had 5 older dogs and when we lost the last of those 5 he went into a major depression until we adopted our current dogs a year later. Spanky is now picking up the same head-butting, snuggling moves as Stumpy.

The head butt:


The snuggle:


We've had site hounds (greyhounds), herding dogs (shepard and collie mixes), scent hounds and retrievers. The only problem we had with any of them and cats is that one of my greyhounds would chase after feral cats that ran from him. We curbed that behavior after he caught one of them (simply banned him from the pack for about 2 weeks). Regardless of how much genetic behavior a dog has, you can get them to respect cats if you have control over the dog.

I had a staffordshire bull terrier who adored the cats and they her. The cats were 2 weeks old when we got them, inbetween bottle feeds they'd sleep against the dogs belly, and she'd even let them suckle on her belly, not that she had anything to give them! When they were sleeping she'd fuss over them like a mother hen, nudging them and cleaning them.

As they cats become older, they still laid by her belly, and groomed the dog alot, and when the dog died, the cats went very quiet, went off their food and didn't play...they have now gone back to how they were, but I believe they all genuinely loved one another rather than tolerate one another.

My cats were mine (except for Captain Steuben...I only had Ripley and Fergus at the time), and were then united with my hubby's 3 dogs when we were married two years ago. They all have mixed feelings with the dogs. Ripley, my female tortoiseshell HATES them. Absolutely detests the dogs, and is a bit afraid of Puppy, the 4 year-old lab/rott/chow mix. She has gotten more tolerant of them, and will sleep near them now, and generally put up with them...but believe me, there is NO love from her there whatsoever. Fergus doesn't mind Melvin (the golden retriever), and kind of acts like he's the feline ruler of all canine affairs...he struts around them, sniffs their butts, chases them away from their food bowls, etc. He's pretty funny about the dogs. He basically looks down on them like they are the most stanky, unrefined creatures that are basically there for his amusement. Now our 9 month-old kitten, Captain Steuben, has been raised around dogs from the time he was 8 weeks old. What a different cat he is from Ripley and Fergus...he LOVES the dogs. He sleeps with them, plays "chase the dog tail", and used to "nurse" on Ginger, before she was put to sleep on Dec. 4th. I actually think he's a little confused on his species...he sometimes acts as if he is a dog trapped in a kitten body. LOL!!

Rowdy and my dogs get along very well. Playtime has to be supervised, as Rowdy and Pearl will wreck my house.

The boys don't like dogs and head for my bedroom, when the dogs come in (I have a baby gate across the hallway door).

This evening, Rowdy brought Pearl a toy mousie to play with, while we were all on the couch.

Our dog (a Boxer) gets along really well with our cats,aside from an occasional chase through the den (she's young yet ) - the neighbors' cats is another story (but keeps them out of our backyard, since most are toms ).

Here's our dog and 2 of our cats (the dog was in the chair first ) , I'm trying to get motivated to clean house- they're not helping !



Here's Meggie and her dog (she likes the dog the best- though we thought she was going to run away from home -literally- for the first few months ).



Though Meggie is still explaining the intricacies of cross species grooming (as in, "Get that big ol' foot off me, and flea my neck, not my feet! I SAID..." (video) :
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/boxart/?action=view&current=Christmas2001picsdec06001.flv

Oh that's a cute video! Kitty told doggy there!

My mom's dog Abby and cat Pumpkin have always loved on eachother. Pumpkin even puts Abby in a headlock and bathes her!

Personally, I think they hate each other

Yes if they are raised right. A dog naturally doesn't know how to be mean to a cat unless hurt by one or the owner encouraged it.

Keno LOVES cats (better then other dogs). She and Ling play a lot - and 1/2 the time Ling instigates it too

Keno has been really good with baby Charlie (she mothered 2 litters of barn kittens so she is used to young babies). Charlie is getting less afraid by the hour - he's so sweet - not too afraid except when Keno starts to get too excited and "pounces". But he will learn - and then both Ling and him will torture Keno

Originally Posted by catsallover

Our dog (a Boxer) gets along really well with our cats,aside from an occasional chase through the den

(she's young yet

) - the neighbors' cats is another story (but keeps them out of our backyard, since most are toms

).

Here's our dog and 2 of our cats (the dog was in the chair first

) , I'm trying to get motivated to clean house- they're not helping

!



Here's Meggie and her dog (she likes the dog the best- though we thought she was going to run away from home -literally- for the first few months

).



Though Meggie is still explaining the intricacies of cross species grooming (as in, "Get that big ol' foot off me, and flea my neck, not my feet! I SAID..."

(video) :
http://s81.photobucket.com/albums/j213/boxart/?action=view&current=Christmas2001picsdec06001.flv

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OMG your boxer looks so much like our boxer. Our's is named Macy Lou but we call her Macy. And she actually gets along with Tavia better than Lilly does for the most part because Lilly being a terrier still likes to chase Tavia from time to time. And Macy is too much of a coward to do that and I guess Tavia feels threatened by her because when she invades Tavia's space she gets slapped on the nose.

Too bad you're not closer- Mattie needs a playdate! . The cats don't do the Boxer burn!-well, at least not for the joy of it! I guess the cats do more of the squirrel dart and dash when Mattie does the Boxer burn!

Do you have a pic?

Originally Posted by catsallover

Too bad you're not closer- Mattie needs a playdate!

. The cats don't do the Boxer burn!-well, at least not for the joy of it! I guess the cats do more of the squirrel dart and dash

when Mattie does the Boxer burn!

Do you have a pic?

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The only one I really have is the one on page 2 of this thread and its one of the her, Tavia, and Tiny my dad's chiuhauha. Macy is fortunate in that my dad has an outside dog that is a boxer lab mix and they get to play and work off energy. And my dad always thought boxer's were such lazy dogs. Whoever told him that hadn't met Macy. She naps and then she's ready to play she even tries to get Tavia my cat to play with her.