Hello, all!
As I wrote to all of you which gave me lots of advice regarding
the first meeting between cats and dogs, I now will tell you how
the experiment worked out. Please forgive me if I am boring you...
When the doorbell chimed I put the cats, Kurre and Murre, out to the
balcony and closed the door. The dog went in to my apartment and became
wary of the scent of the cats, he went sniffing everywhere, completely
ignoring the both wildly meowing cats at the balcony. When i placed
the halfgrowned puppy at the window they saw each other for the first
time and became interested. The dog - Michelle - and Murre stood at
their hind legs curiously watching each other, but Kurre calmly lay
outstretched at the floor, aristocrately ignoring the newcomer.
As no alarming events occurred, I opened the door and let Murre in
since mother has taken place in the sofa together with the dog.
Murre went straight ahaid to the dog, cautiously sniffing. So far,
alls well. However the dog get scared, without that Murre have done
any harming movement, so I have to remove the cat back to the balcony.
A couple of minutes later I instead let Kurre in and under our
supervision we let them acknowledge each other. At the end they
stood sniffing each other nose to nose. Then the dog wanted to play,
wildly waving itīs tail. At that time we donīt have nerve enough to
await Kurres reaction, so I separated them from each other.
I donīt know if we did it right, but my impression is that the first
meeting went quite good and hope that it will continue smoothly like
this next time they meet.
Best regards
//Lars-ke, Izanagi BBS, Stockholm, Sweden
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