Cats and dogs  

I used to have cats and dogs in the same house. However, the dogs and cats for the most part would ignore each other. They didn't fight, though we did have to put the food on the table for the cats otherwise the dogs would eat it. Otherwise we've had no problems. They aren't best friends, but they aren't fighting right and left eaither.

I loved your discussion on your dogs and cats, as I have both too. I have two cats and one dog, but I actually had two dogs until recently.
Oner of cats doesnt like any other cat, never has. She is a dark tortie. When we got our black & white cat, she so wanted to be friends with the tortie, but it was never allowed. Now they are enemies & I get fights on my bed in the middle of the night sometimes.
Both of my cats are fine with small dogs. Our remaining dog is a mini fox terrier.
She kind of annoys the cats at times, gets a bit jealous of them I think.
The previous dog was a dalmation and both cats were scared of him because of his size and because he thought he could chase the cats.

I have cockatiels too, and both cats and the dog are fascinated by them.

I have two female dogs and one female cat. Dogs are 11 and 9.5 years old, cat is only 3 years old.
My dogs just love the cat. my cat can do whatever she wants and when she wants. They let her to try their food first (!!yes)...I am not big fun of my cat eating dogs food, so I am only one who take her away from doggie bowls.
My cat likes to eat when dogs are eating, she can wait if she has her food first.
They sleep touching each other and my cat is at the door when I am coming home alone with my dogs.
No, she is not barking....

Hey Elic! I think that is so amazing how you can keep track of
who likes who, be it cat or dog with all those animals in one
house! I have enough trouble with my Star and Luna and they are
brothers! Luna loves to mount Star and I have no idea why this
is happening since they were both fixed at the appropriate age!
Star doesn't seem to mind, but my bf does and keeps telling me
everytime he sees Luna doing it and tries to get Luna off of
Star which then makes Luna really angry and he starts to growl
like a dog! So, if I had to deal with more than two cats and
the bf, who doesn't like animals at all I don't know what I
would do!

Yes, I have many cats and one German Shepard puppy. They get along surprisingly well, considering the fact that Frida, the dog, has chased my cats every time she enters the house. I have a box turtle, two rabbits, and so many cats I cannot say.
Just kidding, I have three. One is called Maxine and she is the queen of the house. Another is Lulu, the love cat. The third is a 4 month old kitten named Geoffrey. I love them all!

My Shady seemed to sense which dogs were pets and which were strangers. When we lived in AZ, she'd chase off every dog that made the mistake of stepping foot on our property. We'd see a dog ZOOM by the kitchen door, soon to be followed by this little gray ball of fur, then by a black and white cat (Johnny) and then by another black and white cat (Johnny Five - our neighbor's cat) until the dog was off the property. Then they'd all come back, fur erect, tails poofed, but walking tall and proud that they had properly protected everyone from these dogs.

But, when we moved to NJ, my parents had a dog, a Cairn terrier, named Mozart (Mo). Mo wasn't too thrilled about there being a cat around, but Shady knew this dog belonged to family, so she didn't try to chase it or hiss or anything. She'd walk up to Mo and do a "lift and rub" up against him while Mo would lift his head in the air and turn his face away like "eeeewwwwww - Cat Cooties!!!" My dad would say to him, "I have GOT to teach you what a cat is!"

Then, before we left Mom's house after she passed, the neighbor came over to tell me that Shady used to come into her yard all the time to "visit" her dogs. She knew that Sandra was a neighbor so her dogs were "friends", too. She'd go through the picket fence and wander around the dogs and rub on them if they let her. Then she'd come back home again. She just "knew" if a dog was a friend or a foe. I don't know how, but she did.

Sounds like it's just one big happy family there... occasional squabbles happen but mostly everything's sympatico.

Hi ElicBxn!

I used to always have both dogs and cats and never had any trouble, except for the normal hiss and swat now and then. We had the dogs first, so maybe that's why the cats didn't get so domineering. All of the cats were drop-offs, as we lived in the country. At one time we had 4 dogs, 10 puppies 4 cats and 5 kittens--all at the same time!

Now, I live in an apartment and am not allowed to have any furry pets, so that's why I like reading about everyone else's here.

hi elicbxn when we had our own house, we had a dog and a cat and they grew up together so it was not unusual for the two of them to go to sleep with the cat Midnight curled up against Swap our dog's side. .they made quite a pair and got along so well, we had a lot of good pictures of them but now they are stuffed in some box in storage, waiting till my son gets that great job and accumulates enough to get us back into an apartment. hopes are still much alive . lol.

I have never had a dog. Lots of cats though. When I was growing up my brother had dogs and of course I had a cat. They got along okay. They tolerated each other. We had many dogs (he had bad luck with them) and only one cat till she had kittens. She wasn't very smart and some of the dogs were kind of mean to her, but she didn't seem to know any better. One dog in particular would back her into a corner and then sit on her head! He wasn't very smart either it didn't seem. He was the same one that would eat out of her litter box!!!