Heather Neumann
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!! I love the screen sore idea! My dogs sometime try to run through it though (have replace a couple in the last year) our older lab, he's 8 is the one we introduce first because he is more calm. Our Boerboel (African mastiff) is very large and high energy. Thank you so much for the response!We have a Labrador (1 year old) and when we bought home our new kitten we let them interact through the screen door first. We then allowed the kitten to roam the house on her own to sniff and work out her surroundings, litter box etc. We then allowed another interaction through the screen door ( repeated this a few times )
After a few hours we allowed Archie the Labrador to sniff the kitten whilst we were holding her tightly, there were a few hisses at the start but overall it went surprisingly well! We already had a 2 year old sphynx cat whom the Lab has grown up with so I feel that made a big difference. The existing sphynx didn't fancy the kitten at the start so we ensured they wernt left alone together for the first few days.......after that they were the best of friends! Again, I think we just got lucky.
This is a good link on this site about introducing them - ill try find it
@gold hazel@Heather Neumann as a dog trainer I can tell you one known fact: IF the dog isn't sweet and mellow, by a person holding a smaller new animal (kitten, puppy, cat, dog), that dog that isn't mellow can see the held animal as food and go to attack. Being that your photos show that your dogs aren't aggressive, holding the kitten is fine.
I always made a big deal out of a new pet to my dogs by talking to them in "motherese" ... a higher pitched voice with excitement as I also told them, "Gentle. Be gentle with the baby!" I never had a problem introducing dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, etc. because my pets were always obedient and well behaved.
A few of my sphynx kittens did hiss at the dogs when first introduced. I always allowed my dogs to sniff the kittens while I held them towards the dogs (but I was always able to trust their behavior).
When I had larger dogs, a chocolate lab and a golden retriever, my cats did fear for their ribs getting broken by my chocolate lab as they are silly dogs and don't know that they are a large dog. LOL So whenever the chocolate lab came barreling in to a room, my kitties always knew to run or a rib was about to get broken. LOL
In my house, the nakeds landed up "ruling" the dogs even though the dogs were here years prior. The nakeds as kittens either loved the dogs here or went after them chasing them around!
Always supervise and show the dogs your confidence as well as disapproval if you don't like their behavior with the kitten.
Loved the pics you shared and I'd love to see more in the future.
@gold hazel
I love the dog training aspect. The word Gental coul help a lot. I most deffinately have to focuse more on te dogs then the kittens. Momma kitten was not happy I brought the dog aroun but the babies were curious.