Feel terrible!

astramax151

Bromley86 wrote: »

Come on, little more info please.

Obviously I've known a dog which has attacked one cat to go on to attack another.

Bromley86

Obviously. Just a single dog then?

Fire_Fox

Bromley86 wrote: »

Obviously. Just a single dog then?

And yet you hold up Chameleon's tale of one dog as evidence to the contrary? :rotfl: Nobody can say either way.

iammarmite

Just a suggestion...could you not put something on top of the fence (like barbed wire) so the cat can't sit on it? Whose fence is it?

Bromley86

Already been suggested (and there's a friendlier option than barbed wire/carpet gripper in the form of plastic strips with plastic spikes). It's the OP's internal fence, although presumably the external ones need dealing with as well.

@FF. Of course it would help if Astra gave more info. It's changed from a definitive "will attack again" to "may not attack again", so just wondering what actually happened.

EDIT: Another story (the first solid one I found, so I'm not cherry picking):

My dog ran wild for 4 months before he was captured and turned over to my care. He is documented as surviving by killing and eating cats as well as other smaller animals.

As of this moment he is sleeping beside this chair; there is a cat curled up against him. The cat is very much alive, and later tonight the other cat will join them. In that past three years this dog has had ample opportunity to kill either of these cats at will.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110414205808AAEIErt

astramax151

Bromley86 wrote: »

Obviously. Just a single dog then?

Firstly, I'm not looking for an argument + you obviously intend to have one. I personally, with no proof or professional expertise (like most people on here) wouldn't trust that dog with cats again. I'm sorry I changed from would to may, must try harder, obviously renders my opinion rather pointless. For the record, I have experience of 2 different dogs (both greyhounds, but don't read anything into that, I don't believe it is just a greyhound issue) to attack + kill cats on more than one occasion per dog. Also a local dog, who's breed I will not mention, as it always starts a pointless argument, has attacked cats + recently moved on to attack a Labrador puppy. It could be said that these individual dogs are just rogues + prove nothing, but the same could be said for those dogs that only attack once. None of us truly know how any animal will behave in any given situation, so there are no right or wrong answers, only opinions which are formed through personal experience. Hopefully this clears everything up. Like I say, I have no wish to enter into an argument on what is clearly an emptive subject. Apologies if any offence has been caused.


And relax!

Bromley86

Not looking for an argument at all. I don't have cats or cat aggressive dogs, so it's not that. Neither am I going to introduce any other animal to our household.

Just curious as to whether or not it is likely that a cat aggressive dog will view "his" cat in a different light. Everything I've read here suggests that he will, although intellectually I have difficulty believing that there won't be that one moment when the cat moves too quickly and trips off the dogs prey drive.

The closest I come to having a dog in this race is in wondering whether my dogs, which normally ignore sheep and to date have always been under control near them, might attack them if given a chance.

gettingready

OK- Zara as an example.

The cats indoors are HER babies and no question about that at all ever. She tried to feed Macius when he was a 6 weeks old baby cat....

The cats outside - if she was off the lead... would chase. No idea what would she do if she got one though as ONCE she chased and got a cat (deep inb the woods, she was off lead, no idea where the cat came from, thought she shot off after a fox). By the time I got to her,m she had the cat flat on the ground, golding it down with her paw and looking at me like - "hey, mum - another one to take home"...Hmmmm I took the poor cat and let him climb the tree, put her on a lead and we walked off. She could have killed that cat - she done nothing to iut apart from catching it and holding it down till I got there - so????

One cat she is terrified of. My upstairs neighbour's black Pele boy. When he is in the garden, he chases her and she runs off, away from hi,

Go figure.....

(scratching her head)