Cats rule, dogs drool

from JoeUser Forums

LOL.

The cat (Patches the cat) got her spay surgery today so she was sent home with the lampshade (Elizabethan) collar around her neck.  The same type of collar that the Pom puppy here got to wear after her surgery several weeks back.

The dog wore the collar for about 10 days before we finally took it off and let her leave it off.  She tried pretty hard for a day or two to get rid of the collar herself but was not successful in pushing it off or otherwise escaping it.  Not so for the cat.  Within just a few hours of getting home the cat had the collar off and was enjoying the comfort of relatively unobstructed relaxation on the floor in her favorite spot.

Yup, cats rule, dogs drool.  At least in this household. :D

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

You said it!  While we have not had to resort to the cone (on any of the cats we have had fixed), it is clear they are houdini's!  One can slip a harness by first tangling the leash around an obstruction and then backing out of it!  Another digs!  So that when we created a place for him under our deck (it is 6 feet high, so it was not like we were suffocating him), he learned to dig his way out (until we put a concrete footing around the entire base!

The dogs (we have dog sat on occasion)?  Lock them up and they stay put.  Put them on a leash and they pull on it, but have not figured out how to "back" out of it!

But then dogs love you just because you are you so there is that going for them!

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

:omg: I took my new 'puppy' to a couple of behavioral classes and was told that they have this escape proof harness that will help him learn not to pull so much … He was out of it three times in ten minutes … but then again, we have three cats also so maybe there is a little cross-species communications taking place that  we mere humans are denied?

When I want to play, I call out the big gun, and when I want to amuse I call out the cat(s).

 

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