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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Kaycee - 2014-02-26 8:34 PM I want some barn cats badly at our new place but I just don't trust my barn dogs! Have any of y'all introduced cats to "bad" dogs and they(the cats) survived?
The dogs showed up at our current place several years ago as 6 mos old or so. They were very scared and skittish but now they LOVE their humans but HATE critters. We have an enclosed yard as escape proof as possible and one day I found an adult cat dead in the yard! Those boys are hoodlums! They will be great at keeping skunks, coons, possums and other dogs away but I'd like to get some cats for the mouse issue but I don't trust these guys. 
My German shepherd won't mess with a cat that doesn't run, but if they run she will try to kill them. I thought introducing her to babies would help but it didn't. She nearly killed one last year. Luckily, I was there to rescue him. I was rewarded by him peeing on me.  |
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-26 9:09 PM
Kaycee - 2014-02-26 8:34 PM I want some barn cats badly at our new place but I just don't trust my barn dogs! Â Have any of y'all introduced cats to "bad" dogs and they(the cats) survived?
The dogs showed up at our current place several years ago as 6 mos old or so. Â They were very scared and skittish but now they LOVE their humans but HATE critters. Â We have an enclosed yard as escape proof as possible and one day I found an adult cat dead in the yard! Â Those boys are hoodlums! Â They will be great at keeping skunks, coons, possums and other dogs away but I'd like to get some cats for the mouse issue but I don't trust these guys. Â Â
Yep, that is what I am expecting from those boys, too. I actually have one that i think would kill one just to kill one. Sooo frustrating! Maybe when we sell the old place we will put in the new sale/lease, "Dogs stay!"  |
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Location: In my own world | I read in a puppy book the way to introduce cats to a pup and it be successful is to put the pup in a small area with the cat. When the pup tries to play and the cat smacks him the dog will learn the cat can whoop him. Now you dogs are older. I don't know if you applied the same theory with the biggest meanest cat you can find would work or not? I would do the intro in a one on one so they don't gang up on the cat. But idk if this would work or not |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | livinonlove&horses - 2014-02-26 10:06 PM I read in a puppy book the way to introduce cats to a pup and it be successful is to put the pup in a small area with the cat. When the pup tries to play and the cat smacks him the dog will learn the cat can whoop him. Now you dogs are older. I don't know if you applied the same theory with the biggest meanest cat you can find would work or not? I would do the intro in a one on one so they don't gang up on the cat. But idk if this would work or not
Thanks Livin, but they are too old and wise now. I watched them take down a coon that was on the fence one night and the coon probably weighed 30-35lbs. It took them about 30 seconds to kill him...good boys but kitties, no please!
I could separate them like you said and they would listen to me, even in my presence they will be angels but once I am out of their site, they are killers.
If I have high places in the barn like top of the tack room how high can they actually jump? It has been years since having barn cats but we also never had killer dogs either.  |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Anyone want to trade a couple of barn cats for a couple barn dogs? |
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| Kaycee - 2014-02-26 10:18 PM
Anyone want to trade a couple of barn cats for a couple barn dogs? Â
YEP ... first thing in the morning ... my 2 dogs just made friends with a skunk!!
Be here early to pick them up .... and just turn the cats loose in the barn ...
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | livinonlove&horses - 2014-02-26 10:06 PM I read in a puppy book the way to introduce cats to a pup and it be successful is to put the pup in a small area with the cat. When the pup tries to play and the cat smacks him the dog will learn the cat can whoop him. Now you dogs are older. I don't know if you applied the same theory with the biggest meanest cat you can find would work or not? I would do the intro in a one on one so they don't gang up on the cat. But idk if this would work or not
That doesn't work well for a dog bred to protect. My dog was schooled by my mom's cat as a puppy, and it just made her mad and hate cats.  |
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