All Hail the Superior Wisdom of Grandma Kitty
We have four cats. Zeb gets along great with all of them. I wish I could say I had something to do with that, but I can't. It was Grandma Kitty who taught Zeb "cat". Grandma Kitty, aka Fia, is our oldest surviving pet. At 15 she's pretty much seen it all, including our first dog, Willie, the Border Collie who wanted to EAT cat. Somehow Willie learned to leave the cats alone, although it took a few months. Maybe it was Fia who taught him "cat". I don't know for sure, but she's been a stabilizing influence on the farm population since she was a kitten. Now, you may ask yourself, what is "cat"? It is the language of our feline companions. Just like your puppy had to learn "dog" with it's mother and litter mates and "people", in our case English, when they moved in with you, they need to understand "cat". Fia is a master at interspecies communication. When the puppy comes running, she just sits there. When the puppy play bows, she turns her butt to him and ignores him. When he gets a little too wild, she gives him a cold stare. Very little running or hissing, rarely the swatting of the paw. Because Fia has learned dogs like that! And she's not going to do what they like. In short, Fia is very boring, and so Zeb leaves her alone. The other cats picked up on this, so now they are all boring. Cats are boring. Ho-hum. So Zeb leaves them all alone. Superior wisdom, indeed.
We have four cats. Zeb gets along great with all of them. I wish I could say I had something to do with that, but I can't. It was Grandma Kitty who taught Zeb "cat". Grandma Kitty, aka Fia, is our oldest surviving pet. At 15 she's pretty much seen it all, including our first dog, Willie, the Border Collie who wanted to EAT cat. Somehow Willie learned to leave the cats alone, although it took a few months. Maybe it was Fia who taught him "cat". I don't know for sure, but she's been a stabilizing influence on the farm population since she was a kitten. Now, you may ask yourself, what is "cat"? It is the language of our feline companions. Just like your puppy had to learn "dog" with it's mother and litter mates and "people", in our case English, when they moved in with you, they need to understand "cat". Fia is a master at interspecies communication. When the puppy comes running, she just sits there. When the puppy play bows, she turns her butt to him and ignores him. When he gets a little too wild, she gives him a cold stare. Very little running or hissing, rarely the swatting of the paw. Because Fia has learned dogs like that! And she's not going to do what they like. In short, Fia is very boring, and so Zeb leaves her alone. The other cats picked up on this, so now they are all boring. Cats are boring. Ho-hum. So Zeb leaves them all alone. Superior wisdom, indeed.
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