K9- feline love affair

Found another

So cute. I wouldn't exactly say the cats love Asha back, but Asha loves her kittys.

Asha and Pepsi

Asha and Sprite

Bookends! Too cute

I think it mostly depends on the cat, so long as the dog is at least vaguely tolerant of them. Your dog loving cat has the same smug, satisfied look my dog lover gets when she snuggles with the dogs!

Haley, despite not really being cat friendly, was probably the cats' favorite snuggle buddy... I guess because she was big, warm, and squishy. She actually kind of grew to like it They definitely missed her when she died, and it took a while before they decided the other dogs were good enough to snuggle with. I have some pics of the cats with Bus and Annie on my phone, will have to try to upload them.

A few more

I've always theorized that my cat is haughty enough to think that my dogs are just funny looking cats

Here's more of Bus and Annie with various cats, Bus really likes cats actually, and even tries to make friends with the ferals outside, though they have less than zero interest in being his friend!



Bus (yellow collar), Annie (brown), This Cat (black/white)


Same

Bottom to top: Annie, Roxie, Bus, This Cat




Cat-Dog Sandwich

Annie with my Mom's foster (fail) kitten last fall


Roughhousing


"But he started it!"




"Wait- you're gonna do what to my baby!?"

Happened across some videos of Bus and my mom's kitten playing... Jackson was a lone orphan, and singleton kittens tend to have the same bite inhibition problems that singleton puppies can have (at 6 weeks old, he was a hard-biting terror), so it was good for him to have someone to play with and Bus was a pretty eager volunteer. He tends to be too rough, so there was much supervision and a good helping of intervention at first. The first week or so was mostly spent repeatedly putting him in a down-stay and admonishing/removing him for being too rough with the kitten, who wanted to roughhouse but was just too little. I accidentally stuck my hand in his mouth while he was furiously "fleanipping" Jackson and it was so soft, like he didn't even have teeth, only gums. After that, I pretty much began to assume that if Jackson came back for more, it must not have been too rough, and started only intervening if one was pinned down and looked like they wanted out, which wasn't often

8 or 9 weeks old here?
https://youtu.be/GCIaZ68EDow

https://youtu.be/xAEtN-0MDhk

https://youtu.be/cD7CZhKMes0

Bus getting in trouble for trying to steal kitten food/milk at the end. He's such a pouter
https://youtu.be/BP4z3VnGvD8

Learning about "fetch"
https://youtu.be/k4TecDySaNk

End of the year/holiday festivities (Jackson was probably 6 months old in these?). As you can see, they each give as good as they get!
https://youtu.be/BuhwFg0zYEA

https://youtu.be/vxwbqSvZ4DI

I'll have to get more current ones- I think Jackson weighs as much as "Uncle Bus" now!

Back in the 1980's, I had a cat named Ashley and a dog named Hey You. I also had a dog named Sampson. For some reason, Ashley bonded with Hey You. I had a doggy door, so often I would see them go outside together, and laying down next to each other, or Ashley would follow Hey You around the yard.

When I had to put Hey You to sleep around 1995, due to old age issues, Ashley spent two weeks in mourning. She would wander the house as if looking for Hey You, even going outside and walking around the porch and yard before coming back in...then she would get up on the sofa go to the end where Hey You use to curl up and sleep...sniff the area, then sit down and curl her lip up...then she would let out a long low sad soft yowl.

It just use to tear my heart apart seeing her do that. Still brings tears to my eyes even after all these years. Ashley took to sleeping at that end of the sofa too although she finally did quit searching and vocalizing her distress.

When Sampson was put down a few years before Hey You was, Ashley barely reacted to Sampson coming up missing. Ashley had been around both dogs since she was a kitten and so they were in her life for about 13 to 15 years.

I don't have any photos of Hey You or Sampson on my computer though - I should make that a summer time project...digitizing some of my old photos. I did get one of Ashley's done, only because an uncle did it for me with a scanner printer he had.

This was Ashley, at age 4. She lived to be 21 years old.


I love seeing the photos of the dogs and cats that have bonded. There are some ignorant (meant as a description, not an insult) people out there who think cats don't have emotions...that they only 'love on people' for food or to scent mark. Obviously they never owned or loved a cat if they did own one...or they would know that cats can not only bond with people but with other animals too.

Stormy