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Cats view dogs as a predatory enemy. In the wild cats who are smaller than dogs would be a food source. Cats have a natural inclination to protect themselves from any animal that is larger and could pose a threat to their lives. Also when a dog wags it's tail in dog language that means he/she is happy, in cat language it means I'm mad go away. so the dog thinks he/she's happy and the cat thinks he/she's mad.
the above is true, but some can be the best of companions.
there was ( true story ) a snake & hamster who grew up together & were inseperable.
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We had so many cats and one dog. As I have observed, male cats and male dogs doesn't go well together. They both attempt to claim their territory and fight unnecessarily. But female cats can be friendly with dogs, and kept in the same home.
Cats and dogs behave in contrarian ways: When a cat wants to signal a warning to another cat, their ears go back and they swish their tail. These are the same signals a dog uses to display submission (ears back, tail wagging). If a dog or cat does not grow up with, or live with the other, they tend to mis-read their counterpart's physical signals.
The more agressive an animal (in play or in agression), the more intimidating it is to the other.
A cat and dog can get along if they grow up together because they learn to read each other's physical displays properly.
If they didn't grow up together, then it depends on how aggressive the individual animals are, if they've been neutered, if they've had previous experience with the other creature etc..
Their behavior ques are completely different.
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∙ 7y agoCats view dogs as a predatory enemy. In the wild cats who are smaller than dogs would be a food source. Cats have a natural inclination to protect themselves from any animal that is larger and could pose a threat to their lives. Also when a dog wags it's tail in dog language that means he/she is happy, in cat language it means I'm mad go away. so the dog thinks he/she's happy and the cat thinks he/she's mad.
the above is true, but some can be the best of companions.
there was ( true story ) a snake & hamster who grew up together & were inseperable.
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We had so many cats and one dog. As I have observed, male cats and male dogs doesn't go well together. They both attempt to claim their territory and fight unnecessarily. But female cats can be friendly with dogs, and kept in the same home.
Cats and dogs behave in contrarian ways: When a cat wants to signal a warning to another cat, their ears go back and they swish their tail. These are the same signals a dog uses to display submission (ears back, tail wagging). If a dog or cat does not grow up with, or live with the other, they tend to mis-read their counterpart's physical signals.
The more agressive an animal (in play or in agression), the more intimidating it is to the other.
A cat and dog can get along if they grow up together because they learn to read each other's physical displays properly.
If they didn't grow up together, then it depends on how aggressive the individual animals are, if they've been neutered, if they've had previous experience with the other creature etc..
Their behavior ques are completely different.
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∙ 7y agohave you not seen the movie cats and dogs
have you not seen the movie cats and dogs
cats are usually afraid of dogs because they are less of a threat & think dogs as the superior & are not born with them. but if you get a kitten while you have a dog it will not be afraid or be acquanted wth it, but not always
cats are usually afraid of dogs because they are not born with them. but if you get a kitten while you have a dog it will not be afraid
same rules aply wth "y do brothers & sisters not like each other?''
dogs think they r superior, somez so. but cats are inependant & try, but they formost part, lose. but they will always fight one way or another.
yet, some absolutely love each other.
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∙ 12y agoIt's the other way around, cats don't like dogs because for a cat swinging the tail means "I want to fight" but for a dog it means "i'm happy"
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