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fyi:
We finally got shit dragged out of the way enough for K to move in on Sunday. What this means is that a) I am sharing a room with my husband again, and b) there is now a CAT living here. CAT. It has yet to catch me any meeses but I assume this will be forthcoming.
Everything is still kind of a mess - still trying to get rid of between two and four large pieces of furniture. My old desk already went, replaced by something with about half the footprint and much more in the way of useful bits. Desk ;_; M had been trying to part me from it for years, on the grounds that it was actually a dining table and only had three legs, but goddamnit I loved that thing. I did keep the set of shelves that propped up the fourth corner, but have not yet figured out where to put them.
We kept doors mostly closed for the first few days but the fourfoots are doing surprisingly well now; Precious is treating Cooper as if he were a dog, ie. sneezing and snarling at him while she sits majestically atop her Favourite Human Of The Day and getting really offended when she sees M play with him, but they otherwise don't seem to mind each other too much. Grendel has only been punched in the face again once, for going for an ill-advised buttsniff, and the next time he saw Cooper he peed in terror. I think this means he is coming to accept his helplessness in the face of cat; he's certainly making steadily less noise about it.
Everything is still kind of a mess - still trying to get rid of between two and four large pieces of furniture. My old desk already went, replaced by something with about half the footprint and much more in the way of useful bits. Desk ;_; M had been trying to part me from it for years, on the grounds that it was actually a dining table and only had three legs, but goddamnit I loved that thing. I did keep the set of shelves that propped up the fourth corner, but have not yet figured out where to put them.
We kept doors mostly closed for the first few days but the fourfoots are doing surprisingly well now; Precious is treating Cooper as if he were a dog, ie. sneezing and snarling at him while she sits majestically atop her Favourite Human Of The Day and getting really offended when she sees M play with him, but they otherwise don't seem to mind each other too much. Grendel has only been punched in the face again once, for going for an ill-advised buttsniff, and the next time he saw Cooper he peed in terror. I think this means he is coming to accept his helplessness in the face of cat; he's certainly making steadily less noise about it.
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(I also forgot that your dog perches on people like a cat, which makes things even better hahah.)
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Another of the cats would get in bed with the dog, and she would sit there looking terrified, refusing to move.
My sister has a new cat - a precocious kitten. She has zero fear of the dog but doesn't seem to have lashed out, and the dog will sometimes put her in her place with a growl.
I had a feline visitor of my own this weekend. I might blog about it, so I'll keep my powder dry.
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This morning, Grendel was lying on the kitchen floor and letting Cooper sniff his toes; I hope this means Cooper is feeling better about being next to Grendel and demanding less personal space than before. Animal interactions are interesting.
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Even if there wasn't a dietary problem, no cat can be permanently fed dog food - cats can't synthesize taurine so cat food is specially supplemented. But dog food doesn't get this supplement and so permanently feeding a cat dog food will lead to it going blind, and other health problems.
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Cooper eats either packaged raw catfood pellets or raw ground chicken including bones and organs. But what he WANTS is the dry food he always ate before developing gastrointestinal issues, and apparently doggy dry food would be satisfactory.