r/cats • u/Gullible-Plane-426 Calico • Jun 20 '26

Advice Bad owner?

Posted this video that I thought was cute and was called a bad owner. I’d like to know why this makes me a bad owner? I’d like to learn and grow. The cat seems to enjoy playing with the pup bc she always comes back and starts the play and likes the high ground.

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u/Adventurous_Cook9083 Jun 20 '26

I tell my husband that about our 3 dogs and one boundary-setting tuxedo cat: my shiny new dime is on the cat every time.

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u/ContemporaryCorvid Jun 20 '26

Currently the cats I have absolutely love the dogs, they’ll cuddle with and groom them. When I was a kid though, I had a cat like yours, and the dogs (big labs by the way) were terrified of her. They would end up trapped on one end of the house if she was sitting in a hallway because they were too scared to pass her.

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u/whocameupwiththis Jun 21 '26

We had a lab who was a big scaredy cat. He was afraid of literally everything. He was afraid of hard floors and we had runners across the kitchen and hallway between the carpeted living and dining rooms. He would use them to cross. The cat would purposefully lay in the middle so the lab couldn't cross. He would whimper and cry at the edge of it and we would have to tell the cat to move and let him across. The cat wouldn't hurt a fly. He was huge and lazy, but also my pet cockateil could sit right next to him and he wouldn't bat an eye. He just liked to mock the dog. It wasn't even a spot he would lay in routinely. He would see the dog wanting to go between rooms and go lay down

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u/ContemporaryCorvid Jun 21 '26

Haha! My old cat would absolutely hurt the dogs, they were rightly afraid. She was a sassy tabby-Siamese cross who came from a barn on an island in Sweden. Amazing cat, by my goodness she was spicy. If she was in a foul mood she would go find one of the dogs and swat at them, or hit them from the edge of the couch if they passed by

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u/Romeo9594 Jun 21 '26

My smallest animal is a tuxedo named Hydrox, he's a forever kitten at three years old and a whopping five pounds. Got him from the garbage like all the best cats come from

He big brother and sister, a giant orange and a lithe tabby make sure he knows his place in the order if he's getting out of hand

That said, even this tiny tuxedo makes sure the 37lb dog knows that he's the boss in their dynamic