How well do your animals get along?
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How well do your animals get along?
My 120lb lab Thor and our 4 cats get along surprisingly well. Thor loves the cats and even lets them sleep in his bed! They lay in the grass together and play fight sometimes too... it's really quite cute. We have these two twin kittens (one sister named them Tater and Tot, but my other sister re-named them Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx 
) who follow us whenever we leave the house. When my parents go for walks in the evenings, the cats follow them. I took Thor for a walk yesterday and the twins stalked us the whole way! Everyone we walked by thought it was really strange, but cute.
Does anybody else have odd-couple animals?
(We used to have a big cat and a gerbil that seemed to get along pretty well... until one day we found the gerbil out of his cage... in the cat's mouth!)
) who follow us whenever we leave the house. When my parents go for walks in the evenings, the cats follow them. I took Thor for a walk yesterday and the twins stalked us the whole way! Everyone we walked by thought it was really strange, but cute.Does anybody else have odd-couple animals?
(We used to have a big cat and a gerbil that seemed to get along pretty well... until one day we found the gerbil out of his cage... in the cat's mouth!)
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My daughter currently lives with us and brought her cats and Healer when she moved in. After my Mal asserted herself as the BOSS, everyone gets along pretty well.
I used to have an Amazon parrot and a tiger striped cat that would sleep together. The parrot was on an open perch and would fly over and lay next to the cat on the bed. Pretty funny sight to see a parrot grooming a cat.
I used to have an Amazon parrot and a tiger striped cat that would sleep together. The parrot was on an open perch and would fly over and lay next to the cat on the bed. Pretty funny sight to see a parrot grooming a cat.
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I have two black labs, technically they're cousins.
Get along fantastic. The female is about a year and 1/2 older so she spent that time on her own until we got the 2nd dog (male). She is a very intellegent dog and training the 2nd dog was a piece of cake. They drink out of the same bowl, share food, always loving to eachother and it's great.
Get along fantastic. The female is about a year and 1/2 older so she spent that time on her own until we got the 2nd dog (male). She is a very intellegent dog and training the 2nd dog was a piece of cake. They drink out of the same bowl, share food, always loving to eachother and it's great.
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i used to have a huge yellow and white tom cat and my uncle had a very large yellow lab, the dog weighed over 150 pounds and they became such good friends it was crazy... the cat would even ride in the back of the truck with the dog... its funny when u see a cat trying to lean over the edge and then the wind hits him (cats hate wind in thier ears) i would laugh every time... and i would even catch his swimming in the cattle tank on hot days... we call came to call him the dog trapped in a cats body.. until my dad hit him with his truck...
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Actually, quite well, my 150lb King German Sheppard and my 240lb brother get into it every once and a while. My brother usually starts it, so he gets locked in his cage for the afternoon.
The dog loves our two cats, the cats hate the dog though, so we keep them seperate.
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The dog loves our two cats, the cats hate the dog though, so we keep them seperate.
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I dont have anymore pets and when I did own pets it was only one at a time. My brothers have an odd combination of animals that get along real well. One of my brothers thinks that he is running a shelter for strays and picks up any stray cats that he can find in the neighborhood. My other brother has a chow, a dachsound, and a mini pinch and they all seem to get along well, even with the cats.
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We have 2 dogs and three cats that get along swimingly, the cats will even rub themselves against the dogs and purr.
We also have a pet crow named Merlin that everyone else is deathly afraid of (The animals at any rate)....
One of our cats will actually let my wive's cocatiel sit on him, but you can see in his eyes that he'd rather eat him.
We also have a pet crow named Merlin that everyone else is deathly afraid of (The animals at any rate)....
One of our cats will actually let my wive's cocatiel sit on him, but you can see in his eyes that he'd rather eat him.
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My brother's Lab gets along with his wife's 2 cats just fine. The dog has never hurt any of the cats. She will push them over with her feet, but never harm them.
When I used to take my Lab over to his house, she would sniff the cats and try to find them, but she never hurt them. I think she was too busy trying to figure out what in the heck they were. I think that at first she thought they were stuffed animals or dog toys and then once they would move she was like, "WTF???".
Sometimes she would get close to them and I would say to her, "Maggie, be nice." Then she would sniff them a few times and that was it. After a while, she really lost intrest in the kittys.
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When I used to take my Lab over to his house, she would sniff the cats and try to find them, but she never hurt them. I think she was too busy trying to figure out what in the heck they were. I think that at first she thought they were stuffed animals or dog toys and then once they would move she was like, "WTF???".
Sometimes she would get close to them and I would say to her, "Maggie, be nice." Then she would sniff them a few times and that was it. After a while, she really lost intrest in the kittys.
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My cattle seem to get along pretty well... at least until it comes to feeding time. Then it's every cow for themselves.
And the heifers seem to get on extremely well with the bull sometimes...
And the heifers seem to get on extremely well with the bull sometimes...
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lol, speaking of fish, my freind had a tank of peranna in high school and his cats would mess with them... they would try to catch them, but they knew the fish would win... it was a sight to see
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