"Get these mutts away from me!""

[lizblackdog]

Cat polishing: I made Cassie a Catster page.

Opened the bedroom door and the dogs and I trooped in. Spike was tight as a coiled spring, the tips of his ears vibrating with cat-love, and Squish kept wanting to yap in happy excitement, but they lay on the bed with me and behaved. Cassie hissed when we came in the room, and sat on the windowsill making her indescribable growly/grumbly/whiny/complaint noise at the dogs. I've never heard a noise remotely like that come out of any feline. I'll have to get her to do it near the computer for you before she gets too used to the dogs and gives it up.

We lay there for a while, the dogs being good, although Spike's bright-eyed fixed stare never left her, and I talked in random soothing sentences, making a point of using her name, stroked her, stroked the dogs and yawned a lot. Cassiopeia fell silent and I saw her silhouette behind the curtains relax and her ears come forward, though she showed no sign of leaving the windowsill.

Stayed like that for a while and then trooped out with the dogs. Will leave her in peace for the night.

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[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Calico once thouroughly trounced the next door neighbors' dog, when they had one. Daisy was a tiny little terrier, about twice Calico's size (Calico was a very small cat), and whenever they were out together Daisy would bark at Calico and chase her up a tree. One day Calico had enough, and jumped down from the tree onto Daisy's back and latched on with all four sets of claws. Daisy went running across our yard and Neighbors' with Calico hanging on, before Calico jumped off. Daisy never bothered her again.

She also once made a noise like a duck quacking, when they were drawing blood at the vet's.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a cat after my own heart. :) Most dogs are just bluff and bluster anyway - they're good at being loud, though.