Posted on 07/24/2018 11:44:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Cats like to act like they rule roost – as anyone who lives with one will tell you.
And now scientists have found that it really is the cat, and certainly not the owner, who is responsible for harmony in the home.
Experts at the University of Lincoln have discovered cats are the 'key player' in maintaining good karma when its sworn enemy, a dog, is brought into the household.
For although they may be descended from wolves, with big, loud barks and fearsome teeth, dogs are likely to find themselves bullied mercilessly if they live with a cat.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Go to youtube and watch videos of “dogs who won’t walk past cats”
my labraddoodle is 70 lbs, and my 8 lb cat keeps him in his place.
she whacks him when it suits her.
Actually, they kind of bully their people too until we get with the program.
Cats are jerks.
Louie, my 12 year old “Tim” cat, is the most jealous, territorial cat I’ve ever seen.
He does NOT like to share his home or human with other...”creatures.”
Arthritis is starting to slow him down, though:(
Cats are little dicks to dogs. That’s well known.
I have a cat that gets hairballs from groom dogs. He loves dogs.
When I was younger, I had a wolf/shepard cross...He weighed around 90-100 lbs...
He never hurt a cat, but next door was a little kitten that came in the back yard...Smokey put his nose down to smell the kitten and it ran to a tree...
Smokey followed and the kitten started to climb but was too young to go very high...Smokey put his paws on the tree and rased his snout toward the scared little kitten....
The kitten figured, I guess, it was all over and flipped around and latched all it \’s paws and claws around Smokey’s muzzle...
he went running across the yard yelping and dragging his nose on the ground...
The kitten finally let go and Smokey stood there looking at the cat...When the kitten and arched it’s little back, Smokey started backing up and warily watched the kitten walk by....
He never went to sniff another cat....
They’re not “King of the Jungle” for nothing.
My sister took in a little stray calico female kitten and she had two full grown labs who had been with her family for at least a decade and that little calico quickly established herself as the queen B of the house smacking the dogs into line and placing herself as top dog. The labs died recently and my sister got a new female lab pup and it behaved as all pups do until the cat imposed her rules.
My sister was on the couch and the cat was sitting next to her and she watched as the pup had a chew toy that would squeak when she bit it across the room. This was going on and on and my sister watched the cats reaction. The cat took note of the squeaks being made by the pup and bored in intently with her eyes, annoyed and perturbed. After a few minutes the cat stood up, jumped to the floor just off the couch and got the pups attention for a second. The pup looked at her and stopped chewing and squeaking for a minute and the cat sat down not moving at all.
The pup then started chewing on the toy again and it was squeaking and the cats tail whipped a couple of times and she walked over and slapped the snot out of the pup on the nose. The pup yelped and ran to my sisters husband and cowered. The cat calmly walked back over to where my sister was sitting on the couch, jumped back up there and did the cat meatloaf sitting pose next to my sister with smug satisfaction. As my sister said the cats reaction was like “I told you to stop bit*h!”
I have an outdoor nearly feral calico that lives in my garage and around the house. She is a tiny thing. I have two dogs who think they are always going to get that cat every time the garage door opens whether she is in there or not, they tear in there like they are going to rip her to shreds. She usually hides on a shelf or car, waits for them to walk by and then calmly trots out the door to the yard and woods. The dogs have collars and we have an invisible barrier Petsafe system so she knows how far they can go and at times waits just past the barrier prissing about to the dogs going crazy, it’s hilarious.
Well one Saturday afternoon I was working in the garage and the cat was in there and I opened the door except she was not up high and out of sight. The larger Irish setter come charging in and had her cornered and moved in with me yelling Katie you are not going to like this! She moved closer to the cat and with no growl or hisses just a hard audible slap across the dogs nose and the dog starts yelping in pain and the cat darts out towards the door.
In the meantime the small dog a jack Russell decides I hear this commotion with that cat I better get in on this and he comes tearing in the garage barking and growling all tough like and the cat and him come head to head. The cat never hesitated she hammered him right across the nose hard with claws in one motion and kept right on running and he spun around yelping and carrying on. By the time the two dogs got their senses about them the cat was at the foot of the driveway sitting beyond the invisible barrier and slowly swishing her tail back and forth and looking at the dogs like, come at me again. I cracked up at the whole thing.
This is anecdotal but I’ve seen more households where the cat flees from the dog than vice versa.
Ours take turns chasing>
The dogs had a dog door into the garage and about a quarter acre fenced for them to run. My wife's cat was an in and out cat and was smart enough to steer clear of the dogs.
We live in the country and over time my wife wound up with stray cats that had been dumped, entire litters that "friends" needed gone and cats that others "just knew that they'd just LOVE living in the country".
I honestly can't remember how many dead cats I picked up that had tried to cross that kennel.
We got rid of the Dob's after awhile and got a couple of Lab's. Talk about night/day.
Anyway, from my experience with those Dobermans, there never was a question about who was boss of the barnyard.
One thing I remember clearly is how silly it sounds when I hear a "cat person" telling me how "regal" or "aloof" cats are awhile I'm picturing our cats trying to regally climb steel clothesline poles to get away from those base, commoner dogs.
Dogs are like men, cats are like women. Usually.
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