Cat and Dogs

Many people ask me how my dogs can be friend with a cat. Well, let me tell you how it all started.

This stray cat (we named him Kitty) used to roam in front of our house. My wife and children felt pity and often fed him food. Whenever the cat was around, our dogs will bark at the cat nonstop. However, since the dogs were tied, the cat was not afraid of the dogs.

After a few weeks, the cat became very brave. He started to come into our car porch and sat very near to the dogs. Since the dogs were tied, they were unable to reach the cat. The cat sat there looking at the dogs and the dogs as usual will bark at the cat continuously.

Whenever we untied the dogs, the cat will quickly run away.

This went on for a few weeks. Then one day, when we untied the dogs, the dogs quickly ran towards the cat. But the cat instead of running away, he stood there waiting to fight with the dogs. When the dogs were near him, he used his front paw to hit the dogs’ face.

After about a minute, the dogs started smelling the cat and the cat just stood there with his tail down and his back spine curl up. Then miracle happened, the dogs just walked away and played by themselves leaving the cat alone. Every few minutes, one of the dogs will run to the cat to smell him and the cat was always ready to use his paw for defence.

We let the dogs and the cat there for a few hours. Then we tried it again everyday. After a few days, the dogs and the cat have become good friends. They play and sleep together and the dogs offer the cat their food.

Now the stray cat has a home and three good friends.

I think the cat is very intelligence. He dares to take the first step to get acquaintance with the dogs by sitting near the dogs everyday. We should sometime learn from a cat too.