Is Penny Actually My Canine, or Is She My Fourth Cat? Meet Savanna’s Cats! – Dogster

Hello, I’m Savanna! Learn my introduction to study extra about me and my spunky Chihuahua combine, Penny.

Does your canine suppose he’s (or she’s) a cat? Typically I’m satisfied that Penny does, or at the very least she acts like my cats typically.

As chances are you’ll know, we’ve got three cats, and all the cats had been right here earlier than we ever bought Penny. I don’t know if that led to some type of id disaster in Penny, however as people, we all know that if we spend sufficient time round somebody, we finally begin to decide up on a few of their mannerisms.

I feel that’s what occurred to Penny, since she’s the odd one out in the case of my pets. In actuality, I feel Penny is absolutely conscious that she just isn’t a cat and that she is technically the dominant animal regardless of being the identical measurement because the cats. However I feel the issue stems from the truth that she doesn’t perceive why the cats are allowed to do issues that she isn’t. Listed below are a few of the ways in which Penny acts like a cat, how she asserts dominance over them, and what it’s like dwelling with a canine and three cats.

However First, a Temporary Introduction to My Kitties

Should you’re studying for the primary time this week, I used to be all the time a cat lover first. So after we took Penny in from my niece Alissa who rescued Penny however couldn’t hold her completely, I needed to be sure that she was good with cats since we had three cats at residence already. In spite of everything, the cats had been right here first. However Alissa had a cat too, and warranted me that the cat was Penny’s greatest good friend, so we took Penny in.

Simply so you may get the total expertise, it’s vital so that you can briefly get to know my three kitties. We all know them by their precise identify, however Penny is aware of them by different names, and that’s how she tells them aside.

Bubba

Bubba is my orange tabby cat, and of the three cats we’ve got now, he’s the oldest and the primary one we bought. I bought him as a kitten from a good friend who had discovered him. He’s the everyday lazy, grumpy previous man cat, and typically we expect he solely has about one mind cell. Penny is aware of him as “stripey kitty” they usually’re fairly detached to one another more often than not, however they get alongside simply effective.

Kittylina

Kittylina (Lina for brief) was a birthday reward for my daughter. She is the second kitty we bought, the tortoiseshell, and we bought her from a PetSmart adoption occasion the place they partnered with an area animal shelter. She was described to us as “virtually feral”, and it took her some time to heat as much as the thought of being in our residence. She doesn’t thoughts should you strategy and pet her, however she undoubtedly has that “tortoiseshell diva” fame and gained’t strategy you. Penny is aware of her as “speckled kitty”, and she or he is a bit of cautious of Lina for no matter motive. It’s in all probability as a result of Lina is the one one who ever swats at Penny when she desires to be left alone.

Thunder

Thunder, the grey cat, is the youngest and the final kitty we bought. He was rehomed from my sister. He’s undoubtedly the neatest of our three cats, and he appears extra like a canine than a cat typically. He even performs fetch along with his toy mice. That is Penny’s “good friend kitty”, the one she will get alongside greatest with, in all probability as a result of their personalities are essentially the most comparable. They get alongside effectively more often than not, besides when he’s getting pets and she or he isn’t. Then Penny turns right into a jealous little consideration hog.

How Penny Acts Like a Cat

Now that you realize our three cats a bit of higher, I feel dwelling with them has rubbed off on Penny a bit of bit, and right here’s how.

“Empty” Meals Bowls

What’s the one factor we all know to all the time be true about cats? If they’ll even see a tiny part of their meals bowl on the backside, they beg for extra meals, they usually aren’t fooled by merely rearranging the meals to make it seem like you added extra. (Simply FYI, we don’t give in to our cats each time they beg for extra meals. We feed them twice a day, when their bowls are empty or virtually empty.)

However now, Penny has began asking for extra meals when she sees a tiny part of her bowl on the backside. I feel she realized from watching the cats, as a result of she used to not do this. The distinction is that with Penny, I can merely rearrange her meals a bit of bit to make it seem like there’s extra, and that’s ok for her.

Being on the Espresso Desk

It’s virtually inconceivable to maintain cats off of counters, tabletops, and many others. They all the time know the place you don’t need them to be, and that’s the place they go. Thunder particularly has a behavior of leaping up on our espresso desk and simply sitting there grooming himself. It’s probably not an issue, as a result of he doesn’t do it whereas we eat or something.

However Penny thinks that as a result of “good friend kitty” can get on the espresso desk, she will be able to too. The issue is that she will be able to’t soar from the ground to the espresso desk just like the cats can, so she has to leap onto the sofa after which from the sofa to the espresso desk. I’m afraid she’s going to overlook the desk and damage herself. She’s undoubtedly not as agile because the cats. Additionally, she’s not up there simply to be up there. She’s up there in search of crumbs and different “snacks”. So I all the time must make her get off the desk.

How Penny Exerts “Dominance” Over the Cats

Despite the fact that Penny acts just like the cats in some methods, she is aware of she’s not the identical species as them. However watching her attempt to exert her dominance over the cats when she’s the identical measurement as them is hilarious. She appears to have appointed herself as “kitty monitor”, and she or he is aware of the place all the cats are at any time. She even tries to herd them into the identical space of the home. That’s why we gave them these nicknames, so she doesn’t confuse their names with different issues. For instance, you may say “The place’s stripey kitty?”, and she or he’ll take you to precisely the place Bubba is.

However the funniest factor that ever occurred was when a powerful wind blew our again door open one morning. Lina woke us up by coming into the bed room, leaping up on the mattress, and meowing attempting to get our consideration, which was uncommon for her. So we rise up, observe Lina to the backdoor, and discover Thunder and Bubba outdoors within the yard with Penny working round them, barking to get their consideration, then working again towards the door attempting to get them again inside. In the meantime, Lina was giving us this seem like, “Will you please do one thing about these three idiots disturbing my peace?”

Anyway, Penny undoubtedly thinks she’s in command of the kitties, and she or he’s actually fast to come back get us if she thinks one in all them is doing one thing they shouldn’t be. Often, that’s sitting on the espresso desk, since she’s not allowed to. However typically she even involves get us if one of many cats is batting one thing round on the ground or making noise in any method, as a result of she thinks they’re doing one thing improper in the event that they aren’t simply mendacity on the again of the sofa sleeping quietly.

Is Penny My Fourth Cat?

I don’t suppose Penny truly thinks she’s a cat, however I do suppose she acts the identical method the cats do typically simply to see what she will be able to get away with. So typically, it’s like having 4 cats in the home. However watching a canine that’s the identical measurement as a cat attempting to claim herself over the cats by no means fails to make me chuckle, and the cats would undoubtedly do extra injury to Penny than she would to them in the event that they didn’t get alongside. Fortunately, my three cats and Penny get alongside simply effective. They really are Penny’s buddies, even when she is a bit of bossy in direction of them typically.