Cavalier King Charles in flat?

foreign_correspondent

cool, it sounds like she is feeling more secure now! Was she quiet when you got back? Does she bark when first left or not?

I wonder if she thinks you might be in the hall when you have gone out, and tries to get through to have a look by removing the carpet so she can try and get through the gap under the door - which will probaby be 5mm wider once she has got the carpet out of the way??:rotfl:

dogs huh! funny animals!

When my mum fiirst got her dog - and I mean the very first day - my mum left the room to go and answer the phone and shut the door behind her - the dog arranged herself like a draught excluder lying right up against the bottom of the door whilst trying to peer and sniff under it - not a bit interested in me, who was in the same room as her, but very keen to know where my mum had gone! lol

UKTigerlily

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

cool, it sounds like she is feeling more secure now! Was she quiet when you got back? Does she bark when first left or not?

I wonder if she thinks you might be in the hall when you have gone out, and tries to get through to have a look by removing the carpet so she can try and get through the gap under the door - which will probaby be 5mm wider once she has got the carpet out of the way??:rotfl:

dogs huh! funny animals!

When my mum fiirst got her dog - and I mean the very first day - my mum left the room to go and answer the phone and shut the door behind her - the dog arranged herself like a draught excluder lying right up against the bottom of the door whilst trying to peer and sniff under it - not a bit interested in me, who was in the same room as her, but very keen to know where my mum had gone! lol

lol well, since the one time I left her in the main room with the door to the hall closed resulted in me having trouble getting back in, i've let her have the hall & the main room. She can pull it up by the front door but I can still get in when she does with that bit. No she never barks when I go or when I come back, she's always silent, I listen! She did scratch the front door one time as I left but by the time I went abit further had stopped.

The council were here when I just got her & said she wasn't too bad & when I went for my latest medical appointment the guy upstairs got back 20 minutes before me & she was quiet. I've only heard her bark that night I shut her in the kitchen! It takes her ages of trying to get a bark out lmao

My gut feeling is she doesn't bark, no neighbours have heard her yet but they're never here! I got a tape recorder today, it'll only do 45 minutes but will give me an idea how she is. Never hear her tho she seems to be a really quiet dog. She does get so excited when I get home though, almost jumping so high she can lick my face!

foreign_correspondent

aww she is doing really well!! How is the cat coping with her now?

I dont think she is barking at all from what you say, next door sometime look after their mums dog, who was recently adopted from an elderly neighbour who died. She is a little ancient whippety cross who is such a sweety but has never been left alone and when she is she barks continuously (and I mean continuously - like every five seconds rythmically) - from the moment they leave the house till when they return.

Now when she next door, if I am in I ask them to let her come and sit round here with me and Badger - she is no bother and just sits in the corner of the room and has an occasional wander around, but I think she is glad to be with someone. She is like a dear little old lady, but to hear her from threough the wall you would thing she was a right handful!

Oddly enough, when she first came in she looked a bit confused and went and sat in Badgers bed. Badger (who goes mad if my mums young dog even looks at her bed) just looked at her, and left her to it!

nikki702

Hi Tiger ... pleased everything is going well with u and chaya ( I hope thats right) I love the pic I remember when i had a staffy she always done the thing with the back legs out she was so funny.

Btw i love her purple collar...

UKTigerlily

I wanted a matching harness but they only did the collar & lead (P@H) :!!

She will soon have another purple set! I found one that do the harness also yay
FC-Aww @ Whippet, yeah I bet the poor thing was so lonely. Her & the cat are the same as ever really, the cat went & scratched the window to ask to go out which is next to the armchair Chaya sleeps on & they are no problem in the same room
The cat normally sleeps in her bed up on her scratching post (Pic in a sec!) or on mine & Chaya has the armchair or her own bed (Distant memory :rolleyes: ) the cat doesn't walk about the room much but she has come to the bathroom & the pc before.
I sorta get the impression the cat isn't scared just wary. I don't think she's too mad @ me! She sleeps with me still. Chaya seems curious, like she knows Tess is not to be chased, she still goes nuts if she sees a cat when out!

And she's totally ignored the rats since the first day when she was on her back legs, shaking & whining! Since then she sees them & nothing. I had been putting an old curtain over their cage when out & at night in case they run about & the movement stimulates Chaya's prey drive but they kept pulling it in & chewing it so I stopped & still nothing!

At night I don't worry cause Chaya has two ID tags & they make a noise ifg she moves & I wake to anything so know! I let her sniff the cats back yesterday & she was ok, didn't look like she was gonna eat her! I think & hope if there was gonna be issues there would be by now? Saying that I don't leave them alone when out unless it's when I nip to the corner shop (About 10 minutes in total outside)

I sorta think if the dog chased the cat then she'd only have to hide in her crate 10 minutes. But I don't think they bother, seems to be if Chaya's calm she's ok. When she gets in off a walk or is shaking & excited then she might chase Tess & i'm more careful to watch them. She also seems to respond to voice, if she's hanging round near the crate too much & I tell her to come off she does right away, or if she walks near & I say not to she'll stop dead.

They both seem to relax in their own spaces. I don't let Chaya on the bed (Except for the odd fuss) & never without being asked, and once she did jump on right in front of Tess but jumped right off again when told with no problem to her or the cat. I just think she knows Tess isn't for chasing/biting. Yeah she'll chase her if Tess runs but she doesn't!

I think if she was gonna really harm or kill her she would by now? Like she wouldn't give up? She's not at all persistant she accepts to come away & does something else. No whining/shaking/trying to get back there.

UKTigerlily

Tess watching Chaya from her lookout!

hethmar

We always found, when we had a cat, that they all learn to live together and that particular cat is accepted as part of the family pack.

UKTigerlily

Well she'll walk within grabbing distance of Chaya when she goes out & the dog knows to leave her, so she can't be too scared!

UKTigerlily

Well, I tried her harness





(ok enough pics I know lol be thankful I have ONE dog)

but she escaped it! It was pretty tight too! Luckily she ran to the front door & sat waiting to go in but omg! I really hate collars in case they slip them & now she slips a harness! I'm sure it was tight enough & when I tried to get it off the same way it wouldn't go over her head!

foreign_correspondent

ooh, how did she slip it? did she back out of it somehow or manage to get her legs over the front strap and go forwards??

At least she knows where her home is anyway and preferred going home to going anywhere else!

I am guessing perhaps the front strap could be tighter so it sits a bit higher?