Designer Dog Blogs

Eeks!  Freya (all 70 pounds of 9 year old Rottweiller)  jumped and cleared air over a seven foot wide deck! A black kitten invaded her yard and was making her home under the shed.  Ziggy was frantically patrolling the perimeter to keep all other invaders out and Freya squeezed under the shed, snarling. A black streak screamed out of a small crack followed by an intense Freya. Two blurs headed toward the fence and the smaller one barely escaped under a three inch space under the door.  Ziggy caught up and both dogs flew, barely touching the earth, around the fence warning all cat intruders to beware.  Really doubt the kittens return but the dogs are taking no chances.  All in the space of a minute! 

I read about a dog once who flunked out of Paws with a Cause because he was ball intensive....well, Ziggy, my doxle,  is definitely Cat intensive.  He remembers everywhere he ever saw or smelled a cat and has to revisit each sighting on our walks.  It's funny we saw Foghorn Leghorn, a pet rooster, today by his porch and Ziggy had no use for that chicken, ignoring his completely;  yet he reared up on his back paws (being a doxle, his front paws are a long ways from his back ones) and squealed his off tone beagle howl at the sight of a black cat's tail further on down the trail.  I believe that he thinks squirrels are little cats and deers and cows are big ones!

We had a tiger cat who tried to adopt us when we moved to Tennessee..my husband named her "Lunch" because that is what she would have been if Freya, our rottweiller mix,  had gotten to her....Lunch knew the dogs were the reason she couldn't move in so she would sit just out of sight and stick out one ear or a tail tip just to agitate the dogs.  Lunch had a "snack pack" of kittens and we had to do something...there was a lack of "no kill" cat sanctuaries in any of the three states we border.  Finally, my husband called a vet just at the right time and a lady had just lost her cat...she adopted Lunch and the entire snack pack!   Anyway Ziggy is definitely cat intensive...don't know what he'd do to a cat if he caught one (probably turn tail and run).  Freya, on the other hand, would pursue her prey.  So our dogs alert us to any creature resembling a cat within a mile from our house (Don't know why they equate the mail lady and garbage man with a cat)....Funny how such intensity is inborn!