Oh. Oh dear.

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That was my reaction when I found out my new neighbour had 2 cats arriving from the cattery next week and that she believes cat should be allowed to roam wherever they like.

Danny likes cats. They are fun things to chase. Tessie says they are nice on toast. The local pair of foxes have attacked a cat before too.

I hope they learn (and run) fast!
 
Yep, Iam with you about cats v dogs. Ummm. Ebby likes to chance them, well she did until she met a cat the other day who got its claws out.. not sure who 'won' that chase! I wonder if my new neighbours have a kitty or 2.... maybe I should warn them??!!
 
The current cats in my street have learned that this property is heavily guarded at all times by cat-hating dogs. They began to get a little complacent when they realised that the little fat dog was getting old, slowing down and starting to go deaf.

And then a Fast Dog arrived. The black and white cat from down the road had a very close squeak during D's first week, got the fur from the tip of it's tail pulled out
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. Havn't seen it around here since.

These next few weeks will be...erm...interesting.
 
Eeek I would be terrified if any of you lived next door to me!! I have a Cairn x Border Terrier and my mother has a JRT - previously I had a GSD, but I also have 3 much loved cats. Our dogs love the cats, the GSD used to sleep curled up with them and as he got really old they used to wash his face for him and generally gave him a lot of affection. But it really worries me that if my cats encountered a strange dog they wouldn't necessarily be that worried and could end up in pieces.

When you say that your neighbour believes cats should be allowed to roam.. try stopping them! The only way I have managed to stop mine is to stop them from going outdoors altogether but it is hard to keep every window/door shut in summer.

I know lots of people are 'anti-cat' but as the lovely, caring, animal loving people that I know H&H Forum users to be, try to remember that they are also somebody's beloved pet and to lose them would be as devastating as it would for any of you to lose your dogs..
 
Lulup said:
Eeek I would be terrified if any of you lived next door to me!! I have a Cairn x Border Terrier and my mother has a JRT - previously I had a GSD, but I also have 3 much loved cats. Our dogs love the cats, the GSD used to sleep curled up with them and as he got really old they used to wash his face for him and generally gave him a lot of affection. But it really worries me that if my cats encountered a strange dog they wouldn't necessarily be that worried and could end up in pieces.

When you say that your neighbour believes cats should be allowed to roam.. try stopping them! The only way I have managed to stop mine is to stop them from going outdoors altogether but it is hard to keep every window/door shut in summer.

I know lots of people are 'anti-cat' but as the lovely, caring, animal loving people that I know H&H Forum users to be, try to remember that they are also somebody's beloved pet and to lose them would be as devastating as it would for any of you to lose your dogs..
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My thoughts exactly.
 
No one on here says they hate cats or want them to die, it was a lighthearted post.

Some dogs chase cats. Some cats chase mice, Brutus chases Tom chases Jerry. Doesn't mean the dogs are monsters, it's nature.

Some cats do seem to have death wishes around dogs (including some of our own, parading up and down the top of a fence, sitting on the other side of the wire, knowing the dog cannot get through), some are lucky enough never to have come a cropper, others are less lucky!
 
I have to say that the first few posts had me :eek: as you all sounded like some (now moved thank goodness) somewhat unsavoury characters who, on seeing one of my cats at the far end of the driveway beside my house, let their dogs off the lead and said "There's a cat, get it" sending the dogs on to MY land to chase MY cat. Thank goodness for cat flaps into barns and sheds. Thank goodness also that the chickens were in the orchard and not patrolling the yard as they usually do.
 
At Keston, where the Met Police Dog School is situated, and in the early '90s, there was a cat. On one of my visits there, the said cat was lying sprawled out in the sunshine. I asked if it got a hard time. "No" came the reply "no dog has ever got the better of that thing"!!

It was a surly looking creature, so I gave it a wide berth!

Alec.
 
alec swan said:
at keston, where the met police dog school is situated, and in the early '90s, there was a cat. On one of my visits there, the said cat was lying sprawled out in the sunshine. I asked if it got a hard time. "no" came the reply "no dog has ever got the better of that thing"!!

It was a surly looking creature, so i gave it a wide berth!

Alec.
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-- that was meant to convey a grin! clearly my smileys aren't working...
 
We have had cats and dogs together for many years, they have always got on well, though our current older cat has been attached to the Spins beards on more than one occasion!! When we first moved to our current house the cat we had at the time was only really used to our dogs and tried to say hallo to the collies next door through a chain link fence soon found out they didn't like him but also they didn't get over the fence and would lie next to the fence to tease them. He became great friends with the Great Dane the other side though who would protect him from the neighbourhood bully cat. Our current dogs will chase any other cat daft enough to come into our garden.
 
Im not keen on cats, but i wouldnt want to see one go to harm.

There is a cat lady right next to the estate, who quite regularly releases cats into the wild (i say this because she hasno control of them and they arent neutered) and they have repetetive litters which then the keepers have to control, its very sad but on one nights lamping we came across 4 different litters of kittens which isnt going to do the wildlife around here any good whatso ever. i think if you are going to own an animal then you have a responsibility for it, and if you are going to let it wander about then take that responsibility for it instead of shrugging and saying 'oh well, its a cat'.
 
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