Well I always thought they didn’t get on well or were enemies or it was like Tom and Jerry with the cat and dog but does anyone have both maybe who get on alright? Or maybe the cat takes the dog out for a walk around the area where they live and look after each other and things like this?
I know several people who have both cat(s) and dog(s), and in all cases they get along just fine.
The cat lets the dog know who is boss. There is a lot of hissing, ears laid back, and many cat cusswords.
If the dog is particularly dense, a swat on the nose with a claws-out paw gets the point across.
~VOW
Older cats and young, playful dogs, can be a little problematic with the dog interested in everything, especially something that moves by itself, and the cat just wanting to be left alone.
On the other hand, cats are often interested in anything that is a heat source. Any time I have had cats with older, more sedate dogs, the cats have loved to cuddle up with the dogs for warmth.
The best mix, in my experience, is a young adult dog (18 months-4 years) and a kitten. Remember those cartoons, not the Tom & Jerry (which was a cat and a mouse, but yeah, there was a dog that would sometimes come to Jerry’s rescue) cartoons, but the ones (I think they were sidebars in Sylvester & Tweety cartoons) where this mean looking Bulldog would let a little kitten curl up in his fur?
Try Googling images of “Pit Bulls with kittens.” The cute will send you running for insulin.
Cats rule…Dogs drool.
Just sayin’
Depends on the cat and the dog. They usually learn to get along, cats learn to get places a dog can’t go. But occasionally one or the other won’t put up with it. I don’t know if they’ll play together outdoors, can’t recall seeing that. Usually cats get to roam free outside while dogs are more restricted.
I’ve never had both at the same time. I expect the best answer is “raise them both from kittens/puppies”. I’ve seen videos of animals that would normally eat one another getting along just fine, provided they were raised together from young.
Otherwise it’s too variable. Different dogs have different personalities. Different cats have different personalities.
We have a 10 year old cat and a one year old pup. She has only swatted him a couple times but didn’t draw blood. She hisses and lets him know when she doesn’t want to be bothered but a few times she has bathed him. Our dog prior to this hellion was very good with her. Old dog was here first so she demurred to him and by extension she demurs to the new pup but if looks could kill…
I grew up with a household that always had cats and dogs, with differing (comparative) ages. They co-existed just fine. Since most cats are small compared to (our) large dogs, there is an inevitable conflict due to size, but that was handled, with human assistance, adequately. Sometimes, they were great companions; sometimes, not so much. Not unlike human beings, no?
Our household has 2 pugs, a bengal, a tortie, a half-persian, and a couple of black sisters. As long as the tortie and the 2 black cats stay in their basement room, there are no problems. The bengal doesn’t like them in his house. He tolerates the half-persian and mostly ignores the pugs.
Over the years, we’ve had different cats with different dogs and there were never any issues between cats and dogs, just the aforementioned cats and cat.
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I’ve had all sorts of cats and dogs over the years. Never had what I would call a major problem. The cat(s) typically just ignored whatever dog(s) we had.
One exception: I had gotten a kitten once while I already had a 5 year old lab. That cat adored the dog and was his constant companion. Years later when the dog had to be put down that cat wasn’t the same. He was obviously in a funk and just up and died 5 months later at a relatively young age of an unknown reason. I can only guess a broken heart.
Yeah, that’s a horribly sad tale, isn’t it. 
If it were up to the dog she would probably be best buddies with the cats, but they’re not that kind of cats. We used to have a cat she was best friends with, and the poor dog was devastated when he died. This cat had also loved our previous dog, and was very upset with me when I took her to the vet and she didn’t come back. Our dog was called cat friendly by the rescue group we got her from, but after a day or so started bothering them incessantly. We called them to say it wasn’t working out, and they said they’d work on finding someone to foster her. From that moment on she stopped bothering them. Not slowly, she ceased. She made friends with the younger cat, and they would play fight. The cat would slap her with claws retracted, and she would mouth him without biting down. She would also herd him back into the house when he would bolt out the door (she’s half cattle dog).
Yeah, there’s this idea that cats and dogs are natural enemies (e.g. “Fighting like cats and dogs”; “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”)
My total WAG is that dogs’ and cats’ reputation for being enemies dates back to the Olden Days before leash laws, when dogs and cats commonly roamed the neighborhood, and dogs liked to chase cats (and other smaller animals). But that’s not dogs and cats who were members of the same household.
As others have said, a lot depends on the dog and cat in question.
We’ve owned a dog (or two) at the same time that we’ve owned a cat. Generally speaking, they didn’t fight. I don’t know that I would have considered them “buddies,” but they got along fine, with one notable exception: when the dog was old.
With both of our dogs, we had a cat at the same time that the dog became old and somewhat feeble (a different cat in each case). And, even though the cats hadn’t fought with the dogs for years, once the dog was diminished, in both cases, the cat would, from time to time, just haul off and whack the dog in the snout with a paw. I figured that it was the cat asserting dominance over what he saw to finally be a weaker rival.
I’ve lived in households with both cats and dogs for most of my life. They have almost always gotten along just fine. Some particular cat-and-dog pairings have become close friends, played together and slept curled up together. I’ve known a cat taken in as a kitten who nursed on a dog – he was past weaning age and she had no milk, it was for comfort; and the dog was entirely happy to adopt the kitten.
Yes, if cats and dogs both have space to run free outdoors, some of them will play chase games with each other. Other cats are not into this. It does depend on the particular cat and the particular dog.
The chances of its working out well will be improved if the cat’s been living with dogs since kittenhood, and the dog living with cats since puppyhood. I’ve known fully adult dogs and cats to figure it out, but it can’t be counted on. And introducing an adult or near-adult dog with a strong prey drive to cats needs to be approached with extreme caution; some dogs will indeed kill cats. Some of them will kill a strange cat even if they’re fine with their own cats.
My adult dog raised the two week old kittens. Bathed them, slept with them and protected them.
If the cats are getting into a fight, he will break them up.
He is the one who rules here.
I feed them all at the same time. If the cats are eating off his plate, he runs them off.
Ummm, did anyone read the OP?
Well, first of all, Tom and Jerry were a cat and mouse. Cats eat mice. They don’t ordinarily eat or even kill dogs.
But were you serious about the bolded part… do you think pets walk each other? Go out on the street and put leashes on each other? That’s something only humans can do. And with or without a leash, a dog being walked by a cat might just run away.
Or were you just messing with us and no one noticed you slipped that in?
Check out r/kittypupperlove on Reddit for some answers. 
Lies! Jerry was a very small dog. Who happened to live in a hole in the wall, and love cheese.
