Weekend Dog Blog #2: BigGaloot Lurrrves GirlCat

BigGaloot has an unnatural attraction to his adoptive sister, GirlCat.

The funny thing is that we suspect that GirlCat kind of might not completely hate him. Maybe.

She is the most animal-oriented, and least people-oriented of the cats. She almost never gets in our laps (although she loves to be petted and, especially, to be brushed) but she seems to tolerate the dogs better than the other cats.

BoyCat, on the other hand, is the most people-oriented, the most likely to get in our laps, the only one who'll stick around if we pick him up, and he hate, hate, hates the dogs. I think he's probably scared of them. There's always a lot of hissing and spitting when they get too close to him.

MamaCat is somewhere in the middle. She's all about the lap-sitting - if it's her idea, but gets offended if we dare to think we'll pick her up or put her on our laps. She doesn't seem to be afraid of the dogs, but isn't real fond of them either. There's hissing, but not spitting.

But, back to BigGaloot and GirlCat. As you can imagine, from the photos, GirlCat is a big fan of the couch. And Galoot is a big fan of trying to eat her while she's on the couch. She usually just kind of puts up with it, but will meow when he gets a little rough.

I think it probably hurt when he bites at her body, not so much from the bite, but because I think she just has aches and pains. (She doesn't much like it when we move her around, either.)

When he really gets rough, she'll fight back and bop him on the nose. Occasionally, she'll get a mouthful of doggy-jowl.

This evening, during the encounter documented here, she bit him hard enough to make him yelp.

PerfectPup came running in to see what the problem was, got right in his face and gave him a talking to.

When she does that, we never know if she's being protective of the cats, or possessive of them, or is just jealous that Galoot is playing with them instead of with her.

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