Q4horse: Not really. In nature, dogs chase down their food and so eat a lot, both to keep in shape and to take food back to their cubs, which stay in the pack awhile after becoming adults. Cats hunt from ambush and tend to eat only a portion (to stay light for climbing) and save the rest for later or assume they can always ambush something else when the need arises; kittens are generally forced out of the clowder when adolescents.
This is the way my new dog is. He follows me every where. When I go outside he cries so, I let him out. When I come back in, he whimpers until I let him in again. I think he sleeps with one eye open because if I leave the room he imediately comes to find me.
Most cats want privacy when giving birth. I had one that was ready to deliver, so I put her in a box with paper and towels. I left the room for a minute, and when I turned around…there she was…she wanted me there during the birth process….so I sat there beside her and rubbed/scratched her all during the labor/delivery. After giving birth, she never did try and hide the kittens.
In the early days of our marriage, my wife and I had two cats that acted like dogs whenever I walked out of the house, especially to get the mail. Started with the first cat; her offspring learned the behavior. When I left to get the mail from a common box at the end of the road, the cats would stop whatever they were doing, even if they were in the front of the house and I came out the back, fall in behind me and follow me to the mailbox, sit and wait — either against the curb or in the grass near the box — while I got the mail; then fall in behind me and follow me home. I’d go in the back; they’d go back around the front and resume whatever they were doing. Never saw any behavior like that in a cat before or since. And I didn’t train them to do it; they did it on their own.
When I was a teen we got this cat as a kitten. Other than my mother, I was the only child (of 5) who really likes cats. So I spent about a month and taught it to roll over. Whole story with that. Anyway, one Saturday I was outside with the cat and I said, “Cat (it’s name), let’s go for a walk around the block.” The cat accompanied me right around the block, occasionally stopping to sniff things and I’d do the requisite ‘dog’ wait, and then say, ‘Come on, Cat’ and we finished the walk. No leash, just a cat and a human trusting one another.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 11 years ago
Very true. (cats are smarter that way)
Doctor_McCoy over 11 years ago
I guess Luddie is going to the next place he stops, and wait there.
Q4horse over 11 years ago
Energy conservation. An alien concept to dogs.
charliesommers over 11 years ago
My wife can’t even go to the bathroom without a three cat escort!
garyzeck over 11 years ago
In our case it’s a two-cat escort, but yes, Jimmy’s been looking throught our windows again!
stncrst over 11 years ago
I get the idea that Arlo is secretly a dog person
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Q4horse: Not really. In nature, dogs chase down their food and so eat a lot, both to keep in shape and to take food back to their cubs, which stay in the pack awhile after becoming adults. Cats hunt from ambush and tend to eat only a portion (to stay light for climbing) and save the rest for later or assume they can always ambush something else when the need arises; kittens are generally forced out of the clowder when adolescents.
samfran6-0 over 11 years ago
This is the way my new dog is. He follows me every where. When I go outside he cries so, I let him out. When I come back in, he whimpers until I let him in again. I think he sleeps with one eye open because if I leave the room he imediately comes to find me.
jppjr over 11 years ago
Most cats want privacy when giving birth. I had one that was ready to deliver, so I put her in a box with paper and towels. I left the room for a minute, and when I turned around…there she was…she wanted me there during the birth process….so I sat there beside her and rubbed/scratched her all during the labor/delivery. After giving birth, she never did try and hide the kittens.
terrystouffer over 11 years ago
see Drabble
Varnes over 11 years ago
Cat’s think, dogs react…..
doublepaw over 11 years ago
Actually dogs think “my human feeds and shelters me, he must be a god”. Cats think “my human feeds and shelters me I must be a god”.
Grammie of 4 over 11 years ago
Yawwwwwn. Come on, Arlo!! It is the end of July and you haven’t been on your boat once. When are we going to see Gene and his new bride again??
prince valiant Premium Member over 11 years ago
my cat does the same thing except she leads
K M over 11 years ago
In the early days of our marriage, my wife and I had two cats that acted like dogs whenever I walked out of the house, especially to get the mail. Started with the first cat; her offspring learned the behavior. When I left to get the mail from a common box at the end of the road, the cats would stop whatever they were doing, even if they were in the front of the house and I came out the back, fall in behind me and follow me to the mailbox, sit and wait — either against the curb or in the grass near the box — while I got the mail; then fall in behind me and follow me home. I’d go in the back; they’d go back around the front and resume whatever they were doing. Never saw any behavior like that in a cat before or since. And I didn’t train them to do it; they did it on their own.
mhlon Premium Member over 11 years ago
When I was a teen we got this cat as a kitten. Other than my mother, I was the only child (of 5) who really likes cats. So I spent about a month and taught it to roll over. Whole story with that. Anyway, one Saturday I was outside with the cat and I said, “Cat (it’s name), let’s go for a walk around the block.” The cat accompanied me right around the block, occasionally stopping to sniff things and I’d do the requisite ‘dog’ wait, and then say, ‘Come on, Cat’ and we finished the walk. No leash, just a cat and a human trusting one another.