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Originally Posted by redvalaria  OK, maybe I'm missing something. You say you want a place where she can be with you when your home, but not get hurt by the cats....
why can she not be free with you? crate training is great for housebreaking, and giving a dog a sense of having a den, but a big crate with pee pads is usually what people do when they have to be gone for hours.
I think the larger question is what are you planning long term with the feline/canine issue? I have 3 dogs and 3 cats (including a 21 pound Maine Coon cat). Even our little guy learned real fast, if you mess with a cat, you might get swatted. So, when he is feeling like playing with the "girls" he does, but if he gets too rough, they put him in his place and he backs off. What is it that your cats are doing that is so detrimental that your pup can't handle it? And if you are all living in the same house, I highly reccomend you come up with a solution that doesn't involve segregating one or the other of them long term....they usually can work things out (interspecies!). |
Were your cats full grown when you added a baby Yorkie? The only thing I'm worried about is them jumping on her and attacking her throat or the back of her neck (which I'm afraid could break a bone or possibly cause collapsed trachea), which is what they do to each other when they're playing and when they sometimes fight. I just don't want them to hurt her because in my eyes, I guess they play rough. We are working on socializing her with the cats, but of course it takes them a while to come around. Maybe I'm just being paranoid?
I just would rather her be a bit bigger so she might not get hurt so easily. The crate wouldn't be all the time, just at night, during the day while we are at work, or when we can't supervise them all (i.e. meal times, cleaning, etc.)
I just don't want her to chase them under the bed or couch and us not be able to get to her fast enough to keep them from hurting her.
Am I just being paranoid?