My assistants are not getting along

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• jamesholt Posts: 593

  1 March

  this one does not like the new uniforms
  

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• jamesholt Posts: 593

  1 March

  Continues to eat the compst
  

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• philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742

  1 March

     
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  1 March

  My moneys on the cat being in charge.
  

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• Stulti Posts: 90

  1 March

  Especially if you try to put it into a dress.

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• jamesholt Posts: 593

  1 March

  Yes the cat is definitely the boss!

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• jamesholt Posts: 593

  2 March

  so far the cat has even been able to fight off the owl
  

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  3 March

  A cat will always dominate a dog in the house.
  It takes a long time fora cat to tolerate being in close quarters to a strange dog. The dog has to learn the cat's boundaries. Cats are fiercely protective of their territory, home, or garden.
  Dogs love fertilizers like fish, blood, and bone, and sometimes other unmentionables like cat poo, rabbit droppings, chicken fertilizer, human poo if they can find it, other dogs' poo etc. etc.
  A local dog has to wear a muzzle to stop him from pigging out on delicacies he finds on his walks. 
  Dogs and cats are not toys or babies to be dressed in outfits. They know when they are being laughed at, If you need to spend your money on animals give it to a charity where it will do some good. I have had cats all my life and never put harnesses or outfits on them, they have fur coats already. The same with my dogs, I use a waterproof jacket for my dog when walking in wet weather, and a warm jacket is only used in freezing weather because he has very short close fur. He hates both.
  Treat your pets with respect, as the living animals they are, not os four-legged humans or playthings. That will reduce the stress that must be between them. Do not force them into being close to each other, they will with time sort it out for themselves and it is possible they will never want to be "friends". Also, have separate feeding areas. Because my cat was first in my home, I always feed her first, up on a table away from the dog.

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  3 March

  We have two cats and two small dogs. One cat is old and is fine with the much younger dogs, though mostly ignoring them . The other cat we adopted about 15 months ago because her owner died of cancer and there was no-one else to take her on. She hated the old cat on sight and hissed and yowled at her and was understandably scared of the dogs and they of her. 

  We set up a safe place for cats to feed using one side of an old, wooden child's playpen - cats can slide between the rungs but the dogs can't. All of them have their own feeding space and bowls.Now the two cats can mostly pass each other without comment and the new cat a day ago reached the point where she would approach the small dog asleep on my knee and sniff at him. The dogs though are still scared of her, a fact of which she is well aware. She always positions herself strategicly, in a doorway or on a stair so that the dogs cannot move freely and we have to intervene to allow them to pass!

  She has made good progress though in learning to like the great outdoors, something of which she had no previous experience.
  

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• jamesholt Posts: 593

  4 March

  My cat is definitely the boss. I think she enjoys taunting the dog

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