Happy "Familia" (family) (Mic, Isa and Becky) - Page 1

Brown one: Mic, the sweet;

White one: Isa, the terrible;

Black (and tan) one: Becky, just Becky 

Just the cats missing to be the hole happy family, but if the cats where her it was no longer happy because theywould defenetly be in Becky's mouth 

 

Cute family, all look healthy too. Have a great day, Nan

I´m still missing the "like" button... 

They're all lovely, Ana, and they clearly have formed a nice little pack.

As for Becky and the cats, I had a Siberian Husky who was, when I got him, a bona fide, certified cat-killer--he'd watch for them on walks, and there was no hesitation once he snatched hold of the cat as far as killing it went [I didn't learn of his history with them until AFTER we'd adopted him from a shelter, and had contacted his breeder who hadn't known he'd been abandoned there].  We didn't have any cats, but I needed this dog to at least learn not to kill or harass them, since he became my 'demonstration dog' for obedience classes, and there were cats roaming all over the training fields at the kennel where I was working.

So I got a kitten, and set out to teach that Husky that ALL cats in the world belonged to ME, and anything that was MINE he was not allowed to harm. It involved rotating the kitten in and out of a large crate big enough to hold his litter box, his food and water dishes, toys and his bed; when the kitten was running loose, the Husky was crated, and when the Husky had free run of the house, the kitten was crated; that allowed them to see and smell and interact with each other without putting the kitten in any danger. When the kitten got large enough to where a single grab by the Husky wouldn't cause immediate harm, I'd let the kitten have the run of the house when I was there while the dog was on a training collar and leash and kept right by my side. It only took about two no-holds-barred, leave-no-doubt collar corrections for the dog to understand that harming, chasing or otherwise bothering the cat was out of the question.

The Husky and that cat went on to live together with neither bothering the other until they were both senior citizens, and each passed of age, not malice. In the course of those years, I even added another kitten to the house, and he and the Husky actually formed a friendship of sorts, with the cat opening upper cabinets and knocking dog treats to the floor for the Husky, or a bag of Hershey's Kisses chocolate candies off the top of the refrigerator for him.

The Husky's restraint of his prey drive when it came to cats did NOT apply to other prey species, though, and if he saw a mouse, squirrel, or bird, he'd do everything possible to catch that animal...but he respected the notion that all cats belonged to me. If I can could get a Siberian Husky to accept that, I have no doubt you can get Becky to understand it, at least as far as your own cats are concerned.

 

[edited to add the word 'If' to the last sentence, as I had intended it to be there.]

Thanks everyone my pack is my family =) they are my babies, even Mic (he was really messed up went I adopted him, was left on a realy buisy road with other 6 o 7 seven hunting dogs, and even now, that has passed more than a year of living with us, he is still afraid of student movements or when we are more upset about something, he just freeze or tries to go away, but he is a sweet baby)

hexe about Becky and the cats even our trainer told us that we must use this even to train Becky control and show off our "dominance" to the pack. And we are trying...

The thing is that Wally, the oldest cat about 1 year tabby cat, is already scared of Becky so we would really have to get him a larger solid crate to do that...

And the baby one, 1 and half month old black cat called Ninja, he thinks he rules everything in the world... Even with Mic (that tolerates very well Wally, they smell each other and then totally ignores each other) the dam cat doesn't respect him! Just yesterday, Mic was lying on the carpet minding his on business and Ninja came from underneath the sofa and scratch his nose! Ninja was lucky that Mic has already understood that the family cats are family and growled but went the other way... (Ninja walked away all full of himself like "I'm the boss!" )
With Isa, she wants to play with the cats like they are dogs and she is only 9 kg (in the picture she looks bigger than she is), so it is still a work in progress because Wally try to scratch her every time she gets too close and she goes ballistic lol and with Ninja we are still presenting him to her, the only problem with Isa is that she gets to exited about the cats and they don't tolerate that...

But we are still working with Becky about the cats, it does help that when she is in the balcony the street cats put then selves just across the street, almost laughing at her!