What do you think? (kind of long)

shellyk

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We have 3 dogs and 3 cats. One of the cats (Ducky) thinks he's a dog and likes to hang out with the dogs. He sleeps on their beds - with or without them. He drinks out of their water dish, uses their doggie door and comes to the kitchen to be fed with them for meals and treats. The other two cats are afraid of the dogs and the dogs treat them like normal cats - bark at them and try to chase them. Our newest rescue Newf McGee who is 2 years young has recently started barking and lunging at Ducky forgetting that this is his friend. Sometimes I think McGee is jealous of Ducky sitting in my lap and getting attention. Last night Ducky was in my lap and McGee lunged at him and wouldn't stop. The cat reacted and ran over to the top of another couch. Our other Newf Ziva (female 3 years old) jumped up on to the couch and body blocked McGee from getting to Ducky the Cat. To me it looked exactly as if she was protecting the cat. My husband thought she was reacting to the excitement and was chasing the cat too. She doesn't chase Ducky and never jumps on that couch ever!

What do you think - would a Newf protect a cat that was part of it's pack or family?
 

shellyk

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Yes, kind of... all but one have names from NCIS. It started with the first dog named Gibbs. Ziva, McGee, Ducky and Abby followed. No plans for any more animals any time soon luckily as all the good names have been taken.
 

victoria1140

Active member
We had a black cat called Massey who was the same like a dog and a rat called Basiland a jrt called Maddie.

Came home one day and Basil had gotten out of his cage,all 3 were lying next to each other on the rug near the fire.

No reactions they knew they were pals.

One day outside a dog went for Massey and Maddy flew in and stood in front of Massey who was as ready to defend her as the other way around.

Could be teenage hormones kicking in .
 

Pandora

New member
Absolutely...I have a parrot that sits on her java tree on our glass front porch. If a cat walks by she would start letting out these blood curdling screams...my newf could be in a dead sleep but if he heard her scream, he would jump up and run out there and start barking until the cat ran away out of sight!!! Then he would come back in the house and go back to sleep!!
 
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