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Anonymous
HEY /an/!!

I've grown up with dogs all my life. I'm in college and going home in a week to my 4 dogs (maybe 5, if no one adopts a mix from the shelter that my mom likes) and a friend of mine's cat just had kittens..

As you can see from the photo, I got one.

This is my first cat EVER. My dogs are a Pharoah Hound, a Bichon Frise, an italian greyhound and a lab mix.

Do you forsee many problems (*Partial sarcasm*)? I've got a large house and a big room for my kitten. Any tips/tricks for kittens with dogs??
>> Anonymous
Be careful about leaving the kitten alone with the dogs until it gets bigger. Introduce it gradually to the house and the dogs, there's lots of sites on how to do this.
>> Anonymous
One thing I've heard for introducing new animals to a house with existing animals is to keep them in a confined room away from the other animals for a week, let the old and new animals make their introductons through sniffing at each other under the door so they can get used to the idea that there's another critter around, without instant first face to face impressions that can lead to plenty of chaos. Then after that first week, gradually little bits at a time allow the animals to mingle, under very supervised conditions. It's also important to give the older animals lots of attention so they don't think they're being replaced or anything like that.
>> Anonymous
>It is the national dog of Malta, where it is called the Kelb-tal Fenek (plural: Klieb-tal Fenek), meaning "rabbit hound".
>It has a strong hunting instinct, and caution should be observed when it is around small pets such as cats, birds, and rodents.


dude, its a sighthound. i foresee trouble with the pharoah hound, not much the bichon frise(hell when the cat is older it can probably kick that dog's ass) but no so much the lab mix.
careful so that hound doesn't rip the little guy to shreds. if a sighthound sees something small run, they will most likely go after it and they are faast.

i have no tips good though. i own a dalmatian and a beagle and we didn't really introduce them to my cats when we got them, the dogs just kinda rolled with it. but they still chase the cats.
>> Anonymous
>>85128

Our Pharoah hound can be a bit mean (But she's a show camp so mom refuses to get rid of her) But she stays outside most of the day, chasing squirrels away. She's always under good supervision when indoors and is getting pretty old now (8 or 9 years old). We've had her the longest of the dogs, and she warmed up eventually to all of them.

But yes, I know to be EXTRA careful with her.
>> Anonymous
>>85162

edit:
Well, not so much MEAN as she is..territorial
>> Anonymous !4X8vLLNDE2
is that a girl on the internet?
>> Anonymous
Dogs count?
>> Anonymous
that shade of red makes your hand look old ;_;
>> Anonymous
would the op please define "just had kittens", if by just you mean the kitten is younger than 12 weeks old then your kitten is missing some important life lessons and maybe some immunities it would get from mom
>> Anonymous
>>85174
What the fuck, it does! OP, listen to this person, (s)he's right! ;)

Otherwise I'd go see to it like>>85120said. They need to get used to each other's smells before being overwhelmed by each other's appearance. Especially that Pharaoh Hound...

Also, make sure you're in a room with the kitty's smell on it rather than the dogs' smell on it when you introduce each other.

That usually makes many animals tone it down a bit - as if they're entering a stranger's territory. Not sure how it works with different species though, so this could be a useless tip.
>> Anonymous
>>85225
cats are not prey animals
>> Anonymous
>>85226
To a mouse, no, they are not. But to a dog like a Pharoah Hound, a kitten looks like lunch.
>> Anonymous
>>85225
Most domestic cats can hunt and kill animals three times heavier then themselves.
>> Anonymous
>>85120
this is exactly what we did when we introduced our second cat into the house. we closed her off in one part of the house and let our dog just sniff around for a bit so he knew she was there and then once after we did that for a while we opened the door but put one of those baby gates in front of it, so he couldn't get in but he could see the cat. then eventually we let the dog into the room, but made sure one of us was around so the cat (or dog) didn't get hurt. my dog chased and barked at her a couple times, but eventually he got used to her and now they're fine. you just need to introduce them to each other slowly. my advice would be to do it one at a time with each dog, just so you don't have to deal with all of them if they decide they want to chase the cat.
>> Anonymous
>>85226
Tell that to hawks, eagles, and coyotes.