oh my darling "klementine"

All that makes sense and I will keep it all in mind. I know one of the biggest problems is that my 4 small dogs are yappers. You walk into the house, they bark. You let my big dog out of the room, they bark. Get four small dogs yapping at one time and it sure is a commotion. The cat is not an outdoor cat and, we are not going to let her go outdoors. We do have a doggy door and know that we have to watch it and the cat closely once she does accept the dogs and goes beyond the one room that she prefers right now. I know that I am probably rushing things but, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that the pound only gives you 30 days to exchange. Even though I don't want to give her up and it would break my heart to bring any animal back there, it wouldn't be fair to keep her if she just will
not or cannot tolerate dogs.

My sister wasn't sure if her dogs would coexist peacefully with Moochie. She was taking a chance. In the event that things did not work out between Moochie and the two dogs, my sister planned to bring Moochie to live with my three cats. I love cats, but jeez, my place is rather small. My Columbus and Waffles have monopolized my bedroom and my Mimi has monopolized the spare room.

Anyway, if things don't work out, try asking one of your friends or family members if they would like to take in the cat. Who knows? They might agree. At least you would know what happened to the cat.

I wish I knew someone here where I lived that would take her in. Everyone that I know either does not like cats or, has the max that we are allowed here. I am thinking positive though....she won't have to go back.

That's good. I'm sure that things will work out very well for you and your kitten. All best!:-)

Like I said, 4 of my dogs are small (4 to 10 pounds) and they can squeeze into almost anything. I was considering having the cat declawed, that way if she did swat at one of them, she wouldn't cut their eyes or anything. She got me today when she swatted at the dog and, although I didn't even feel it, it was obvious she got me when my daughter said "is that blood running down your leg". I am not throwing in the towel yet...I know we still have some rough weeks ahead.

I could never leave my animals with someone else. Can you not take it with you to the UK?

Unfortunately the UK's animal laws are some of the most stringent in the world. You have to have them vaccinated for everything and then they have to have passports to enter into the UK and if one thing is wrong then they are stuck in guaranteen for 6 months! We are only going for a couple of weeks....

Although we would really like to have this little stray puppy, we are thinking that it would be so unfair to take it now (only about 5 weeks old), look after it for 5-6 weeks and then go away for 2-3 weeks. The poor thing will become so disorientated and all the training that we will have given it will be lost by the time we got it back!

I think we will wait a little while and find another one. Although our hearts break as we so love animals...:(

I am being patient but, I will admit I might be pushing it a little. I want so bad for them to get along. She has started to come out of her room. She even came out today while I was outside but my daughter locked all the dogs up when she saw she had come out. I told her she should have just left them. She had to of seen them because they were sitting right there. Had she not wanted to come out, she wouldn't have. We also have started to put her in a carrier and bring her out for a little bit to watch TV with us. While she is in the carrier sitting on the couch with one of us, the dogs can look in her cage and they can check each other out. I was told this helps them to get to know each other. The cat feels safe cause she is in her carrier but, the dogs can also go and check her out. Today was the first time we did this. The dogs were so excited because they had never been that close to her before. They carried on like a bunch of banshee's. She did sit in the carrier growling and did hiss and swat a few times but I am told each time we do this, it will get better and better and better.