{"id":1453,"date":"2023-09-29T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2023-09-29T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T09:22:30","slug":"the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"The truth about cats and dogs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent news article reported how the resident Downing Street cat, Larry wasn\u2019t especially welcoming of the newest family\u2019s Labrador, Nova. There have apparently been heated exchanges between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This leads me to wonder how introductions were handled. When animals are expected to share the same home, people often don\u2019t consider what that really means in terms of their natural behaviour. Territory and resource guarding can be fairly common. If you\u2019re considering welcoming a canine addition to a family with a resident feline, this guide by International Cat Care may prove useful.
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https:\/\/icatcare.org\/advice\/introducing-a-cat-or-kitten-to-your-dog\/#:~:text=The%20first%20step%20in%20introducing%20the%20new%20housemates%20should%20be,used%20to%20each%20other’s%20scents.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Larry, waiting for his human staff to do their job\u2026<\/em>
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A recent news article reported how the resident Downing Street cat, Larry wasn\u2019t especially welcoming of the newest family\u2019s Labrador, Nova. There have apparently been heated exchanges between the two. https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/larry-cat-sunak-dog-fight-b2416669.html?fbclid=IwAR16Z4P8k1mdEnTjIRil5kt17mkAVi3wRgiTa1vbFp_yF2RfK15sSjL8JJg_aem_AUs-BD7zRTUcqkdG2E0WwGFExYBBRf7Wk3o6ukXuZKFgFz4qbXWxccL908MwgJyfTaM This leads me to wonder how introductions were handled….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}