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Asked by dara to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 12 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by amy821, ninnin, kathrynwylie13, brookie19, casiacecilia, natalie023, charlyjoy, lukasz222.
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Kevin Mahon answered on 12 Jun 2012:
The age old question!
Couple of reasons – dogs are very sociable animals and very inquisitive, if a dog that has never seen a cat before see one – they’ll bound towards it! Which is obviously very scary for the cat!
A big reason as well is the difference in body language – namely how they use their tails. Dogs wag their tails as a ‘friendly’ kind of invitation whereas a cat sees a wagging tail as a sign of distress/anger, which again is scary for the cat! So when the dog sees a cat wagging its tail in response he thinks it means ‘come play’! Whereas the cat is trying to be left alone!
Dogs also love to sniff new things – which again is something the cat finds distressing.
Whats very, very important is how a dog or a cats first interaction with the other is like – If it goes poorly and the animals are realtively young, they may be wary/scared of the other species for some time!
All in all we can tie cats and dogs hating each other down to a series of unfortunate misunderstandings!
Poor guys.
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imnotmeommyclone commented on :
that’s really interesting…