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.
They’re not “King of the Jungle” for nothing.
This is anecdotal but I’ve seen more households where the cat flees from the dog than vice versa.
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.
Cats domesticated humans, not the other way around. Once you understand this, all things feline make sense.
Kitty ping...
The natures of men and women expressed in dogs and cats.
Right there. Undisputable.
Our male Cavalier King Charles Spaniel will not pass the cat in the hall. The cat knows it and will sit in the middle of the hall taunting him. Poor dog whines until we come rescue him.
One of our Cavaliers was so afraid of our cat, he wouldn’t pass her in the hallway. She knew it and taunted him, lying down in the middle of the hall, staring at him, and swishing her tail. He would sit out of her reach, so she couldn’t swat him, whilst whining for us to come rescue him.
Our other 2 Cavaliers and our Golden Retriever had a healthy respect for her too. She weighed 8 lbs but ruled the house. Sadly we lost her to cancer last March at age 14.