| Old dog meets cat! How do I do the introductions?
Hi. I have a dilemma I hope some of you wise Yorkie owners can help me with. I have only been a "yorkie mom" for around 2 months but I adopted an 11 year old yorkie. In general he is an ideal dog, but he has never been around cats. The one time that he almost met a cat I was visiting a girlfriend who never bothered to mention that she had a cat until I heard this terrible hissing and growling and there was my 8 pound, 11 year old, almost toothless Corky thinking that he is going to take down her 22 pound killing machine of a cat. I screamed and grabbed him before he lost an eye or worse...
So that was two months ago in San Diego his old home. We are all the way back home in Paris now and my husband and I just found out that we must go to the UK on short notice for just four nights. Today I learned that his dog sitter for next week has a small dog (no problem) and a CAT. "My cat is nice" said the dog sitter. "She is used to dogs, my dog, my friends dogs etc".
So the problem won't be with the cat, it will be with Corky. What is the best way to introduce Corky to her cat so that he doesn't try to attack it and have the cat "defend" itself by way of scratching his eyes out. Even a minor scratch can be very bad for a dog as cats nails are full of bacteria. I am more than a little worried about this. To make matters worse. I can't even take Corky over early to meet her cat because she is out of town and doesn't return until the day we leave. I need things to go smoothly...Please help. |