My poor dog Murphie has just about had his fill of Billy Bob the cat.
He’s spent the past month trying to teach/convince Billy Bob that he’s the boss. He tried the gentle but firm approach of putting his paw on Billy Bob’s head. He tried the humping method. Now, when the cat gets out of control, he puts the cat’s head in his mouth and growls. This bother’s me because although Murphie’s sweet natured, (probably the reason B.B. doesn’t believe him when he says “I’m alpha dammit!”), I’m afraid he’s gonna loose his temper while the head is in his mouth.
Billy Bob will act submisive during it, then after he’s let go he’ll run to another room, wait for Murphie to calm down, then pounce on his head. Human intervention is usually needed. :rolleyes:
Well, you’ve snookered me in with a seriously provocative thread title.
Sounds like an interesting episode of Wild Kingdom.
You forgot to use “pussy” in your thread title.
I used to have a dog named Kelly. I also used to have a cat named Dammit. One day my ex had people over for a PPV wrestling thing. After a few minutes, PPV wrestling was abandoned as Kelly -v- Dammit was much more interesting.
A typical match would go like this: Kelly would be lying on on the floor, minding her own business, and Dammit would - completely out of the blue - do a Mary Lou Retton over the back of the sofa and onto Kelly’s head. Kelly, blindsided, would struggle to her feet and look around for Dammit, who would lie on his back, hiss, and claw/paw at Kelly. At this point Kelly would just get pissed and engulf Dammit’s head with her mouth.
You would think this the end of Dammit, but no.
Kelly would wrap her mouth around Dammit’s head, lift, Dammit would squeal, and Kelly would gently put Dammit down and re-adjust her grip. Then she’d pick up Dammit again. This would go on for several minutes til the grip no longer produced squeals, and Kelly would then drag Dammit off to the corner, where the bout ended with Dammit gently slashing Kelly with his claws, causing Kelly to let go so Dammit could stalk off with that “Like I was even trying to fight you, dahlink” look at which cats are so good.
And this was inside.
Outside, while Kelly was on her train-thing (you know, one line from post to post with a slidy-thing running along it) Dammit would stand almost-but-not-quite-close-enough for Kelly to reach and RUN across to the other side. Kelly, of course, would chase. Which is a good thing. Except Kelly (whom I loved dearly, don’t get me wrong) wasn’t all that bright, and often…well, always forgot she was wearing a collar attached to a heavy-duty clothesline, and her ass would often beat her head to the perimeter of said clothesline.
Hours of drunken entertainment ladies and gents, I’m tellin’ ya…
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Yet another thread shooting for the view/post ratio record. I agree with Munch you’d have had a better shot with the word “pussy” in the title.
Enjoy,
Steven
My original thread was in IMHO, because I didn’t understand my dog’s behaviour. Since several helpful people explained that it was a dominance thing, I didn’t see reason to put this follow-up thread in IMHO. “view/post ratio” means nothing to me. What does matter is posts that actually contribute to the thread.
Um…no, but thanks for the offer. 
I always assume, when I see thread titles like this, that they are misleading for the purpose of sounding “that way” so I would be more surprised if it was actually a sexual thread.
Maybe it’s 'cause I’m a pet person, but I thought it was about a dog and chew-toy…
I had a similar issue, but in reverse. My former landlord had two big hunting dogs. Onr really liked my cat (indoor-only cat.) He was never hostile to my cat, so my cat became master of the apartment. If either dog wandered up from my landlord’s, Fat Cat would charge them.
He’s big but declawed and only 1/3 of either dog’s size. The dogs, however, who were used to cats as “those smaller people you ignore and they ignore you” were totally freaked out by the fact that the Fat One was charging them. They would run away.
The dog that really, really wanted to be friends would try to stay. He’d put his head on the floor as a gesture of submission, only to get his head pounded like a tom-tom.
One day he tried to give Fat One a lick, and my cat reared up onto his hind legs and started boxing the dog’s nose. The big dog ended up lying in his side, covering up his head with his front paws while my cat pummeled him with paw punches until we intervened.
Cats do not understand “dog language” and vice versa. Fat Cat had no clue that the big dog was submitting. He just thought he was winning the fight.
Looks like your cat doesn’t realize that dog is proclaiming himself to be the kingpin.
Your dog probably won’t hurt your cat. He’ll probably treat it like a naughty puppy (I’ve seen parent dogs look as if they’re killing their pups, when it’s was just discipline that did seem to hurt the puppies at all.)
Umm, contribute what exactly? I didn’t see a request in the OP for contributions of stories, analysis of the behavior of the animals, or pretty much anything that would jumpstart a discussion. Just a story. Nothing wrong with that, this is MPSIMS after all, but to post something MP and then get upset when people don’t “contribute” is pretty unfair.
Be honest, can you really say your title was not meant to imply something more than what the OP is about? Looked like you were going for a double entendre from where I’m sitting. Others in this thread seem to have thought so as well.
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Congrats! You’re the first person who’s picked up on this joke in my pseudo-sig. I thought it was funny.
Enjoy,
Steven
My cat Dagny, who disappeared after my apartment fire and I really miss, lived with 2 Chows at one point. After two fights between Dagny and the Chows, which Dagny won, Dagny would hold down the Chows and clean them.
It was really amazing to watch a 9 pound cat dominate two 60+ pounds dogs. When Dagny was in the mood she would walk up to one of the dogs and start licking the dogs snout or ears. If the dog tried to get up Dagny would shoot out her claws and growl. The dogs would then lie back down and submit to the tounge lashing.
My other two kittens and the dogs had an un-easy truce and would tolerate each other. Dagny, on the other hand, was the boss of all she saw.
Slee
the only thing that makes it sound like a double entendre is the “humping”, which was in reference to the original thread.
A double entendre was not what I originally intended, but thought “what the Hell”. So, what should I’ve said, “my dog’s trying to eat my pussy”?
Oh, lets quit picking on hillbilly queen about the thread title, okay? It happens all the time, so everyone knows by now that the thread title usually has little to do with the content.
I assumed it had something to do with her pets the minute I saw it…otherwise I wouldn’t have opened it. Of course that is just me, and apparently Charmian, but still…who cares? If it turns out it isn’t what you thought it was, it was only a click out of your day…right?
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The funny thing about this is that in the dog world, licking another dog is a signal of submissiveness, while in the cat world, licking another cat is a signal of dominance. It looks like cats and dogs are perfectly suited to these S&M relationships, doesn’t it?
I’m sorry you lost Dagny. It sounds like she was one heck of a cat.
I’d keep a close eye on them, if I were you. A friend of mine lost a kitten this way- it ticked their dog off, and he went for its head. The poor thing ended up with a crushed skull, from which it fortunately died from almost instantly.
YES!!!
