Your pets relationships with each other

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Angry cat hates the dog, and won't let him within a metre of him, he's always telling him off in a really grating whiney miaow. Just now I threw the dogs ball and it rolled under misery's chair. He just pranced around the chair (he stands on his back legs and waves his arms in the air ) because he's wary of approaching angry cat, eventually making a quick grab for it. He's such a prick sometimes, but I love him so much.

The other cat loves the dog and will weave around him purring and headbutting until he gets his ears washed with a look of bliss on his face. He does play head games with the dog though - like stealing his bed and sitting next to his food bowl (makes dog anxious). He also paws at the kitchen floor passive-aggressively every time dog comes in from a wee.

Is anyone else fascinated by the way their pets interact?

2 labs, mother and daughter. They get on well and are affectionate with each other, lots of face licking and ear cleaning. They mutually groom each other after wet muddy walks and play a growly wrestling game when in the mood.
Very occasional warning growls when one wants the other's Kong or bone, nothing involving teeth.
Very jealous about cuddles and pats; basically, you can't have one without the other.
Lately, I have been very amused to see daughter noticing that mother is fast asleep, ie when she is having a dream, or snoring, and she will then creep over to us for a sneaky solo cuddle.

We had one cat (the female) who’d curl up with the dog in her basket.
Sadly that cat didn’t last very long.

The other (male) lasted 14 years with our dog but while they never fought, they were never friends. Cat would lie on the sofa with one ‘arm’ dangling, ready to have ago at dog if she tried to muscle in, but AFAIK it never came to actual scratching (cat was in general a great big softie).

IMO Ddog was a bit jealous of DCat, since his food was smellier and to her way of thinking, tastier! She never had a go at Dcat though.

They were both PTS within 6 weeks - the house felt so empty and horrible.😢

My cats do a mixture of fighting and amicable existence - sometimes find them sleeping together, and then an hour later they will be chasing round the house snarling at each other.

When Ddog was here, they ignored him. He enjoyed sniffing their bums but they'd just walk away, with dog following literally nose-to-tail.

Strangely, when Ddog passed away, they knew. He died at home and to all outward appearances might just have been asleep, but to the cats he must have smelt very different because they crept cautiously around his body if he were an unknown quantity, whereas when he was alive they'd have rushed past him without a thought.

We have two cats that we got as rescue kittens when they were 8 weeks old. About six weeks later we got a puppy, so they have lived together most of their lives. It was a bit tricky at first, but now they all get on quite well. Mostly, they all ignore each other. Occasionally if the cats are play-fighting, the dog goes into 'bouncer' mode and breaks it up, probably because she gets excited and wants to play. One of the cats will sleep quite close, but never next to, the dog. They'll also happily sleep in each other's beds, but not at the same time. One of the cats sometimes goes up to the dog and rubs her or sniffs her nose.

Despite being brothers and having always lived together, the cats have quite different personalities (catalities?). One is very inquisitive and playful and likes to roam, the other quiet and sleepy and mostly stays at home.

We have to feed the cats on a worksurface in the utility room as otherwise the dog would eat their food. One cat has been known to nibble the dog's food, which she doesn't seem to mind. However, when we once stayed in a holiday cottage and someone else's dog tried to eat her food, she didn't like that at all!

We now have two rabbits and our dog is fascinated by them, always wanting to go out and sniff around their run. I think it's tormenting her how she can't chase them.