Pirate cat - new home

[Donald]

My Pirate cat needs a new home because my Mastiff puppy will not leave him alone and he does not run away. But the Mastiff puppy pulls the cat across the room by his fur playing. I have another cat that hides and he is fine, but this cat wants to be with me and so does the puppy. So a dilemma.

He is about 3 years old, neutered (male), the vet removed his eye after he came in one evening and the eye was damaged in a fight I assume. I am in the country so there are many animals that could fight him. He has all shots, no feline diseases. A little bit of a fat cat. He is under my office chair as I type.

I am just trying to get a little more calmness to my house.

 

[The_Eric]

Sounds like it's time for the puppy to learn... Not the cat to get the boot.

 

[Texan4Life]

poor cat...a dog can learn not to play with cats.. a rolled up newspaper the hind end usually does it

 

[QuOk]

Looks like Karma caught up with the cat

 

[FirstNissan]

I agree, time for the puppy to learn to get along, be firm yet gentle and he will figure it out.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

Sounds like the dog is the problem, not the cat. Besides, he was there first.

 

[hardcore302]

Teach the dog to stop messing with the cat instead of getting rid of AAAARRGH! I assume that's the cat's name.

 

[Fleetmon]

yep....train the puppy before it's too late. Right now it's a cat....might be a child someday if not taught how to "play" now.

 

[John_K]

Train the dog, don't get rid of the cat!

John

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: The_Eric
Sounds like it's time for the puppy to learn... Not the cat to get the boot.


Exactly. Too many untrained dogs out there, which is why they get a bad name.

 

[Jarlaxle]

If the cat doesn't object...what's the problem? My old boss had a rottweiler that would carry his cat around. Pretty weird, but the cat didn't seem to mind...so what's the problem?

But yeah, you need to train that dog!

 

[JimPghPA]

We had a dog in the past, but do not have one now, and I am not clamming to be an expert here.

I don't know if it would work, but a spray bottle (with a manual pump) filled with water and sprayed at the dog when it is doing any behavior that is undesirable might be enough to let the dog know not to do that.

A news paper might not be the best way to communicate to a dog.

Dogs are animals that recognize a leader, and live to please the leader. It is all about communicating to the dog when it is doing something wrong, the means of communication does not have to in itself be a punishment.

Also dogs see being hollered at as "the owner is paying attention to me" and that to them is a reward. To that extent a dog will learn to do a bad thing to get the (to them) reward of the owner hollering at it (paying attention to it). It is kind of a screwed up way of thinking as far as it not being the way we humans think, but it is the way dogs think.

Shunning the dog by putting it in someplace where it does not get anyone to interact with it is a punishment.

Also some dogs by their nature are bread to be aggressive with other animals. Case in point, a Skipper-Key dog is very cute puppy, but an equivalent to the Tasmanian-Devil when they grow up. So many Skipper-Key dogs turn into uncontrollable animals whey they grow up that so many owners end up getting rid of them that there are some special people with the resources (area) to adopt them, and they are flooded with grown up Skipper-Keys.

 

[JimPghPA]

There is supposed to be something about if animals sleep together, they will tolerate each other when awake.

 

[Mr_Incredible]

I've always made sure any dog I had was not big enough to kill me during the "learning phases."

Count another vote for teaching puppy to behave.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: The_Eric
Sounds like it's time for the puppy to learn... Not the cat to get the boot.


Exactly. Too many untrained dogs out there, which is why they get a bad name.


I agree with this.

If you are not going to do anything about your dog you should find BOTH CATS a good home..One gets dragged all over the place and other one has to constantly hide..Very sad IMHO!

 

[andyd]

Puppy has to be trained. The squirt bottle with water, or higher tech is the shock collar. Obedience training by a trainer is good too. My daughter has a 2yr old Yorky and a 9 month old Shepard and a 4 month old son. Ella is gonna be a big dog. She is a bit bratty, but is happy with her place in the pack. She will nip, but tenderly, more of a caress than a bite. She likes me because I will wrestle with her, she nips me, I bite her ear.

 

[Propflux01]

That dog would be the first thing footballed out the door...

 

[addyguy]

I agree the puppy needs to be trained....puppies are smart and can learn what you want them to.

Cat's had a hard life - it deserves to be left in peace in its home.