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Nine’s 1st Open Window
Nine on the first open window day. Thanks to my daughter C for the picture.
3.13.12 The Cat Dance
Sofie on the floor & Kitty in the dog bed
Sofie & Kitty
I do not know who decided that dogs and cats could not be friends. Miss Constance Kitty has always loved the dogs. She was wild about Squash and now she sticks to Sofie like glue. Sofie and Nine, the kitten, have become really good friends too since he joined us (Little Stella kitten is somewhat shy and gives the dogs a good scratch and hiss still on occasion). Louise tolerates the cats but doesn’t really want to play with them. They tolerate her too.
The only dogs that my cats know are the residents. None of my cats go outside, so they do not know ‘outside’ dogs, and it is rare we have a guest dog inside because of…. well… having 5 cats. We have a strict, “dogs not chasing cats” rule around here, which works 90% of the time, but it doesn’t work at all with strange dogs.
I find it interesting that Louise & Sofie meet many a neighborhood cat when we are walking but that they clearly do not relate the fact that their friends at home are the same species as these furry things behind the trees. I think they think they are just another kind of squirrel.
Sofie & Nine playing
(Just an aside: As I am sitting her blogging this with Sofie and Louise under the desk, Muffin just came in the office and Sofie started to charge him. Noel was already on my desk so there was a little fur flying for a moment… so we still do get a little tet-a-tet here at the zoo from time to time.) Anyway…. they all (sort of) know their place and they all seem to work it out. I know that many a dog would kill a cat if it had the chance and we have had some trouble fostering dogs because of that . You just can’t allow the dogs to chase or get aggressive from the start with the cats or it won’t work. Around here it does work and I really enjoy seeing the dance that the cats do with the dogs. I remember years ago my Alice cat doing that with Nikki dog, Kitty did the dance with Squash E Bear, and now both Kitty and Nine do the dance with Sofie. A long tradition of Cats loving dogs and doing that rub in the dog’s face dance thing that cats do. Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo. ❤
3.2.12 The chase is on….
Stella
There has been quite a lot of running around since the kittens have come out of their room. Stella and Nine have both discovered that dogs are fun to play with, though Stella is still a little worried about Sofie charging her down the hall. It is fun to see both dogs sniffing the kitties gently. Miss Kitty actually likes the dogs better than she likes the other cats, so she is always hanging around Sofie.
Kitty & Sofie on the den couch
Sofie does do this little nippy thing with the kitties that worries me a little, but I figure that all my cats have very sharp claws and the dog will learn if it gets out of line. It is not that she is aggressive, it just seems like she wants to play with them like they were dogs. And speaking of dog play, my crazies run around so much that they end up slipping and tumbling all over the deck ever since I had it stained last year with this new kind of weatherproofing.
Upside down Lulu
Rough and tumble
Play play play play play
I love to watch the dogs run around and chase and chase. One gets a toy and then the other has to have it, and the chase is on.
Just another DogDaz morning at our house ❤
DogDaz Zoo 