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We have been through this twice over the past 15 years. We solved it by letting the cat stay in his own room especially when we were not home. We would let the cat come out of the room a little bit more each day until finally everyone got along fine...ignored each other for the most part. We now have 5 dogs, 2 cats and a fish all living together! Two of the dogs don't get along with 2 of the other dogs and one dog hates the other dog so basically the cats are the LEAST of our worries! :)
Seriously, we recently cat sat my nieces Blue Russiona kitten while she deployed in the Marines.....the first day, Jake (Blue Russian) stayed in my son's room with his litter box and was fine...we did this for about 3 days until the dogs were tearing at the carpet to get to the kitty so we would sit with Jake and let each dog in the room one at a time and eventually all were getting along fine! It helped that even though Jake had never been around dogs, our dogs had been around cats and LOVE them, love to play and chase and for the most part the cats could care less.
But we did go through an adjustment period and it took awhile for everyone to get settled but they did and when my niece came home from deployment, the dogs were depressed for a week! They loved that cat by the time it was all said and done!