If it helps, I have a cat the same way. He doesn't bite or scratch at us. (he's declawed) But he tries to get the dog in trouble, I think he figures if Fiona gets in trouble, we will eventually get rid of her, lol! We had a cat, and we kinda adopted him, when we moved. He would spray (even though he is fixed) in our closet, and we can't leave piles of clothes laying around, or closet doors open.
We had to get rid of our other cat when I got pregnant the first time, he would always lay practically on your face if you were sitting or laying down, and he wouldn't stop if you put him down, he would keep crawling back up, lol. My dh thought it was cute, but it drove me crazy and I was so scared he would sneak in our dd's crib and do that, so we didn't let him sleep w/ us at night, and I guess it pissed him off, so when we'd wake up in the morning, we would find poop at our bedroom door or on the couch, yes...yuck...
The last straw was when I was getting ready to go into town, and I left my bedroom door open, and he went in and pooped on our bed...on my side! I called my dh at work and told him Chloe wouldn't be there when I got home.
Oh and this was after we tried to find another home for him and was given back twice...
But our orange kitty stayed...lol. Then about 2 yrs later, we ended up w/ another cat, so sweet and all black and long-haired. But his litter box habits were atrocious. He would poop like 4-6 times a day, and the smell was absolutely horrid. Not only that, when he covered it up, he would literally fling it on the walls. Friggin yuck. We tried the covered litter box, and he would perch on the edge and poop, usually missing the box part-way and then proceed to fling it w/ his paws.
Dh was deployed and I worked, and I would come home and have to drag everything out of the "cat" closet, hose it down, change the litter, and 409 the inside walls and mop the floor. It was disgusting.
We took him to different vets and they couldn't find anything w
rong...they just said he was messy. Leaving him outside wasn't an option, he was declawed and didn't like to be outside. So he had to go. I was stressed enough w/ my dh gone and I didn't need that to come home to.
Ok, I guess all that was totally irrelevant to your point. But anyhoo, I guess if our orange kitty (yes, that's his name) thinks he's outlasted 2 other cats, he can get rid of a dog, lol.
My parents tell me we don't need to own animals cause they're all weird, lol. But Fiona seems about as normal as yorkis can get, I guess, so maybe we're onto something...lol
I've actually caught him peeing on the floor where Fiona is kept some parts of the day...but Fiona couldn've have done it, b/c she was locked in her kennel.
But now we're fixing to move and I'm stressing, b/c I don't want our cat to spray the closets where we move next, and he has bitten our dd more than once, she's fine w/ the dog, but doesn't leave the cat alone. I just think he would be happier w/ a family that doesn't have kids (or teenage kids) and doesn't have other animals. I'm stressing about it, b/c he can be so sweet and goofy...ok sry for going on and on...
