may your friendship be like cat and dog

Cats and dogs can become the best of friends. Their friendship is without strings attached - they are absolutely devoted to each other.

How would you like to have a friend who watch your back and are there for you twenty-four/ seven !? A friend who love and adore you without ever doubting your intentions.

Keeping pets are as popular as always. In this world of concrete and machinery, we do need the warmth and contact of our pets.

There is a small problem in modern times as the pet would have to be alone while the owners or owner is working. The best solution is to get two pets. I suggest a dog and a cat as pets, and not two dogs or two cats. For the reasons that the dog does not feel the need to fight for attention and the top-dog position against another dog (he knows where he stands with the cat). And on the other hand unlike two cats together, the dog will not follow the cat up your curtains, so the cat will not bother to run alone, that will save wear and tear on the furniture. The pets will be perfectly happy and so will you.

do not worry mom, he just had a little oopsy on my foot, nothing serious.

This is true. Momcat is cleaning the foot of the dog after baby.....

Just thinking :- What about a parrot ... maybe not. That bird can kill the cat.

By the way, these two were great friends, but they do not sleep together and have that real close friendship that the pets above enjoy... and the parrot had this ambition to close the cage door on the cat.

Understand your feline friends by learning the body lanuage of cats.

It might be best to start at the tail. That is the part of the body that the cat seems to used most in body language.

A broad sweep of the tail symbolize annoyance or impatience. A rapid sweeping of the tail back and forth suggests an extreme agitation in your cat. Extending it's bristled tail upwards with a curved back signals a conflick with another cat or animal. Body held low, ears to the back and tail extended indicates attack. Lowering it's tail between the legs shows obedience and submission. A tail raised straight upright with the tip slightly relaxed indicates that your cat is in a friendly mood and wants to play. A slight twitching of the tail while your cat is lying down near you shows that the cat wants to be with you.

Kneading with both paws on a person or soft surface is a sign of contentment, affection or both.

It is a mystery why a cat would run away from a cat loving guest and choose to sit on the lap of the one person who does not like cats. Showing off ? Teasing ? Trying to win the person over?

So maybe we humans need 9 lives to puzzle that one out.

Meet the cats

You do not expect me to actually lift that tail do you ?

cat and dog chat

This photo above was sent around on the www. I do not think that cat happened to be passing by, he probably was part of the drill.
Even so - What is the cat saying with his body ? The cat's body is keeping a low to the ground profile. The tail is not in attack mode. That cat knows exactly the distance it needs to outrun the dogs and in this case kitty knows that the dogs are too close for comfort. He wants the dogs to know that he is not challenging them.
A cat is an expert in judging the distance to keep. Some years ago our Alsatian did not want the kitten on the front stoop. He had no problems with cats, so it was not personal. He decided that was his sacred territory. After all, the kitten had the whole house.
Whenever the kitten strolled past the stoop Mr. Dog would lie down and try to paw the small kitten ( about 3 months old) through the grid, but Kitty pretended not to notice and kept on walking in the garden just outside the iron grid, a hair's width out of the reach of the dogs paw. The dog was so afraid the kitten will walk through the grid onto his stoop, that he could not step over the 40 cm high grid and chase the kitten away. The kitten might run over his stoop.
In all fairness that dog was not stupid, he accepted the garden as our territory and he respected the fact that he will be breaking the rules chasing the cat in our garden. He never chased the cats on certain areas, and he never came into the house which he accepted belongs to the cats.
The real insult was when the kitten rolled up on the spot next to the stoop and sleep, but the dog was too nervous to sleep, he must guard his stoop. Eventually the dog just gave up one day and ignored the kitten, which was a terrible blow to kitty's ego. It took kitty days to accept the fact that the game was over.