scullysmum Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Having spent much of the five months that Johnny has been with us trying to stop his OTT reaction to the many cats that lurk in our street, even to the point where his "Nemesis" (a cat that is so pig headed that it actually has the gall to try to pick a fight with him : ) doesn't get a rise out of him.....I was distracted by a huge pile of fox poop deposited on our steps and whilst moving it with my boot so that DH didn't step in it and deposit it in the car.....my neighbours chuffin' ginger cat was lurking out of sight at the bottom of the steps and his lordship clocks it and takes a swipe.....nearly pulling me head first down the steps. Now we are back to him barking and lunging at every cat we see, stationary or otherwise : Quote <p>"One day I hope to be the person my dog thinks I am"Sadi's Pet Pages Sadi's Greyhound Data PageMulder1/9/95-21/3/04 Scully1/9/95-16/2/05Sadi 7/4/99 - 23/6/13 CroftviewRGT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest normaandburrell Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Oh, dear. I can just see the picture in my head of what happened! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnF Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Peggy has gone and got like that again too since new neighbours moved in with a cat which seems to need to toilet exclusively in the flower bed in our front garden. I was walking down the steps (luckily only 2) but Peggy saw it and spooked it so it ran back past me, causing my knee to thump into the lunging dog's chest and eliciting a GSOD and colourful lanquage from myself. So it's short leads and hyperawarness of cats for a while now; and it doesn't help that Peggy goes mental if she finds a Hedgehog in the back garden at night. Hedgehogs which cannot be picked up seem to send Peggy, by displacement activity, into the kind of intense hole digging which makes her just as hot as from a serious run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnsliz Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 We feel your pain here. Have loose cats lounging in my yard right outside "dog room" window, driving my new boy insane. Quote <p>Finn, Wink, Birdie, Snap and SmokeyJG Quicknfast 7/25/99-5/16/08, JG Quickwink 7/25/99-9/22/13, Iruska SweetDuv 7/19/03-11/9/16, Delbar 6/11/11 and Catahoula Smokey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roo Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I can relate! My angel Dusty was so reactive over our neighbor's mean cat (who, I swear, taunted her on purpose - it sat on our back steps, right in front of the door, and groomed itself, but only if Dusty was out there ) that she busted through our screen door once (we were getting ready for a walk and I went inside to grab shoes - she wasn't unattended for more than a moment, but that's all it took!). She took off running down the road, bleeding from where she'd scraped her legs on the steps, and I went sprinting barefoot after her. I finally managed to corner her on a neighbor's porch (the cat went up and jumped off through the railing) but that cat was our nemesis from then on. I was so happy when the people moved Quote Mom of bridge babies Regis and Dusty. Wrote a book about shelter dogs! I sell things on Etsy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest june Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 My pups are muzzled when in the yard and have chased many squirrels and cats OUT of their yard. There is one cat that will sit where the pups can see it through the fence. They watch it, but amazingly they don't go nuts, but my guess is all bets would be off if it were in the yard. I realize it may not be possible for many people, but I NEVER take my dogs out the front door. We always go into the back yard where they are leashed up and I don't have to worry about any surprises while on any stairs. A side benefit of that is my dogs do not pay any attention to the front door most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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