Lily and the Cats

This dog.  I can’t get over how funny she is.  She’s been super excited about the cats because they’re her size.  We’ve gotten her to stop barking at the cats for the most part, but today, I watched her follow Kairi without him knowing.  She walked with her nose to his tail across the bedroom and dining room before he noticed and jumped onto a chair.  Lily looked pleased; Kairi looked pissed.

Later, Lily put her paws up on Sadie’s stool to investigate the smell of catnip I rubbed on it last night.  Sadie was unimpressed.  She hissed and raised her paw.  I was hoping for an epic smackdown so the dog would learn her place, but in the end, Lily’s size beat Sadie’s anger, and Sadie jumped down to hide on the bottom shelf of the bookcase.

Tonight, I threw food for Lily to see if she would chase it like Kairi does.  Lily didn’t think there was anything interesting about it, except that the food made a funny noise when it bounced across the kitchen floor.  But Kairi thought it was awesome that we were playing his game.  He pounced on a piece of dog kibble and was about to eat it until Lily came lumbering along and scarfed it down.  I grabbed a handful of cat food and threw a piece for Kairi, who chased it in his happy way.  Lily saw this and figured the cat was trying to play, so I tossed a piece of food for her and she jumped after it, suddenly excited.  It was almost as if the cat and dog were playing a game together, instead of the truth that they were playing the same game separately.

I must’ve pushed my luck because I threw a piece of food for Kairi, but Lily chased it too.  She doesn’t have good traction on the kitchen floor; she slid into Kairi, backpedaling the whole way.  Kairi flipped out, hissed, puffed his tail up and ran away.  Lily cowered underneath the coffee table and refused to come out or even eat the kibble pieces I put next to her.  There goes that game!