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Hi all! I found this site a few days ago looking for help with our recently rescued stray cat, Penelope. She's very sweet, I'm certain she was someones cat before because when we found her she just sat there looking at us and our dog, then we fed her some fish and she let us touch her. So fast forward, it's been almost a week since we took her in and she's very happy and comfortable. She loves attention and snuggles and being carried around. She's due to have kittens any day now, based on all the pregnant cat information I found here. My question is, she doesn't seem to like dogs. A person told us they saw her swipe at a pitbull wehn she was homeless, and she seems interested in our chihuahua, but she'll run up to her hissing and batting/scratching at our poor baby. I can't be sure if it's because she's pregnant or if she really just doesn't like dogs. Currently she lives in our bathroom and I let her out when I let my dog outside, or I'll send my dog under the bed (she lives under there sometimes) and bring her out to cuddle and get some time out of the bathroom, but when her kittens come the bathroom is going to be way too small and I don't know how to help her relax with our dog. They seem to want to look for each other, and last night Penelope got out of the bathroom but she just went to the closet to find a nesting space and it was the first time she didn't attack Miya (our dog).
A bit of advice on what we should do would be helpful. We could put a baby gate up to keep our dog in a different room when the kittens come, but Penelope will probably just jump over it. We also have decided that we will likely keep the whole bunch because we're currently looking to buy a house with acreage and they would have plenty of space, but if that doesn't work out in a decent amount of time we'll have to let them go and I'm torn between keeping a kitten or keeping Penelope because she's really nice and I love her but I don't feel like constantly supervising her with our dog and I don't want our dog to be afraid of cats because she only just learned what they are. Thanks a bunch
A bit of advice on what we should do would be helpful. We could put a baby gate up to keep our dog in a different room when the kittens come, but Penelope will probably just jump over it. We also have decided that we will likely keep the whole bunch because we're currently looking to buy a house with acreage and they would have plenty of space, but if that doesn't work out in a decent amount of time we'll have to let them go and I'm torn between keeping a kitten or keeping Penelope because she's really nice and I love her but I don't feel like constantly supervising her with our dog and I don't want our dog to be afraid of cats because she only just learned what they are. Thanks a bunch