Cats and Dogs Living Together

[LiberalArkie]

3. I had a yellow lab that walked into my house from the woods.

That decided that my house was a decent place to live. I then adopted a stay female kitten. Velco the dog adopted the kitten and was always around her. She started popping out kittens and I had 17 cats before I could get her neutered. Velcro raised all the kittens. Since I live out in the Ouachita National Forest, the kittens would wonder off and become food for something higher in the food chain. I had 3 kittens and the Moma cat that were survivors.
The youngest cat (male) "Whiner" is partial to dogs and not other cats. Velcro raised him also.
After Velcro died , I picked up a shelter dog, a beagle that I called Buster. Whiner raised Buster to be a very good dog. Buster came down with tick fever, which made him sore a lot of the time, especially cold weather. He went outside one night and the temp dropped to 9 degrees and he did not come back.
Whiner moped around for ever. So I went back to the shelter and they gave me a small black lab. I called him "Sam". Whiner was in heaven again. When Sam isn't out chasing something, him and Whiner are all curled up together.

So I cats and dogs just about always get along together, if given have the chance to do so. A dog raised to be mean though will attack cats in a heartbeat. But I don't believe it is normally their nature. Sam is more afraid of Moma cat than anything else in this world.