Pepper (dog) and Barry are now good pals after a year of living together. Barry always wanted to be friends, pepper wasn’t so sure. Now they hang out and stare out the window together all the time.
Look what I a walked into the room and found! Tommy and Weasel sharing a piece of furniture. Voluntarily! We're getting there.
It’s taken about 14 months, but these two are officially friends.
Hi everyone. We just adopted this sweet 2 year old pittie girl from the shelter today. Its a trial adoption and we are trying to figure out if she is safe to be around cats. We have heard that some dogs just can't be around cats due to high prey drive and we are wondering if that is what we are seeing. I will say, we initially let them have too much contact, thinking introducing cats and dogs was similiar to introducing two dogs. That was our fault. We now have them totally seperated and will move much more slowly. When we first got her, we took her to the yard and let our cats into the catio. The catio is connected to a window in our house. Our cat came down into the floor of the catio and pittie saw and growled and approached. The cat went inside and pittie moved on. This happened again later with a different cat.
When the cats were sitting on the windowsill she could definitely see them and was watching them but not growling. She was able to be distracted with treats and calling her.
Later I took her into the house and she saw the cat and approached in a very eager way and sniffed. She got swatted, backed up and tried to sniff again but I had her on a leash and pulled he back.
Since being seperated, she has been hearing the cats meow through the door and does not seem interested.
Was the growl and approach/sniffing a sign she has high prey drive and can't live with cats or is this a workable situation if we move slowly? We need a dog who can somewhere down the line, exist peacefully in shared space with our cats.
We have another dog who was raised with the cats and she's never had an issue with the the dogs are getting along great.
We have been super busy recently, but Gavin and Rosie are still up to their usual fun and games!
I'm unsure who's the pillow, but I think the answer is both 🥰
Tommy and Weasel with my legs in between. How many years until they like each other?!
Getting onto Pitties &Kitties has been my goal for more than a year. At last!!! Tommy and Weasel together!!!!
My pittie named Pinkie loves kitties and is pals with two neighborhood cats. This one almost always comes up to say hello when we’re out on our walks. No idea of its real name, but I call him/her “Black Kitty.” I’m wildly creative, I know!