Vicious Fleabags

hlm184

Spill it, ladies.  How are your babies and your pets doing?  Bonus points for pictures!

M loves the animals so much.  He can't get enough of them.  We're starting to work on "soft touch," since he's getting grabby.  The dog doesn't mind much because she has short fur, but he can get a handful of the cat's fur.  Does anyone have any advice for handling this at the current stage?  Right now I'm doing a "no" and redirect, and using his hand to show soft petting.

The cat and the dog are both amazingly tolerant of the baby.  The dog just walks off when she's had enough, but she'll bring him tennis balls to throw!  The cat only leaves when the baby tries to teeth on his tail.  Otherwise he loves chillin' with the baby!

ladygali

LO lights up big time when he sees the cats and scoots up to them. One cat steers clear, another thinks he's my kitten, and the third is interested but not sure and rather tolerant.

janice9821

Cora loves the cats and they mostly love her. They don't love when she grabs handfuls of fur, but they sit there and take it or just walk away. They love to lay with her while she naps.

lcr23

Our dog keeps his distance especially when she goes to pet him. It's pretty funny because DD is all smiles and he backs away.

Talltrees82

LO is very interested in our border collie, who's always dancing around and chasing our cats. LO tries to touch the dog when she's near, but I can tell it makes her nervous so we really watch them and praise her for being calm around LO.

UnofficiallyLO

Initially our beagle was suspicious but kind and every month that had passed they have just grown closer! Especially now that DS looks and smiles at her, stands in his jumper and reaches for her and oh my gosh now food is involved! They're going to be the best of friends. She loves to lick his face, to my dismay, and lay next to him.

LaNorte

The cat is totally indifferent - I'm not sure LO even knows there is a cat in the house. But LO and the dog love each other! He laughs at the dog so heartily, more than he laughs at anything else. He even did his first "sort of" crawl in an attempt to reach the dog to pet her. Made it about 2 feet across the floor, collapsed in a puddle of exhaustion, then the dog came over and licked him til he started belly laughing again

JanMommy2under2

They are hooked on each other, the dogs like the baby spit up, and the baby LOVES the dogs!  They are surprisingly tolerant of his grabby hands and we pet the dogs with our feet and they've learned if they stand over his feet he will pet them by kicking.  They wait around him while hes drinking his bottle hoping for spills or spit up haha.  

JanMommy2under2

Side note:  The hardest part is getting the dogs to learn their toys vs his toys.  Just because they are soft, squeak, and are on the ground does not mean they are dog toys.  We've caught them several times.  

hlm184

Teething on the cat's tail.  This was where the cat finally drew the line!

nikkimorello

When Luke was really little the animals didn't seem to acknowledge him much, now the dog LOVES him...the cats still aren't sure...

katy4128

LO and our dog are best friends. The dog gets LO to laugh more than me sometimes! They like to stare at each other and stick their tongues out. lol

lokimau

The dog is a little overwhelming and makes her cry. One cat ignores her. One cat wants to play (and does). One cat thinks she is a kitten. Tries to bathe her, sleeps next to her. Even let her try to teeth on her ears. Lol. The looks she gives are priceless though.

emilyann64

Our cat wanted nothing to do with the baby when we brought her home, but now tends to come around a bit more. She actually seems to like when the baby pets her! Here's a photobomb form Caroline's 5 month pictures.

zazu13

Aww. Jeslous of all your furbaby pics. We lost ours when the girls were only 2 months. I miss him every day.

SoulTermination

Our kitty, Saia, is mostly indifferent to A-game.  Sometimes she'll come up and very carefully sniff A, but if we try to hold A "standing" on the floor within petting reach she immediately leaves.  She also gives A a wide berth when she's playing on the bed or floor.

Poor cat's so screwed once the baby's mobile, lol.  Thankfully she's got several high places she can go hide.

bmayora

Penelope looooves Obie. We let her grab hold of his fur because we think it's funny. Not cool for him. He's totally harmless though. He just puts up with her. I'm pretty sure he's annoyed that she stole his thunder.

katess84

We have two beagles of our own and we're fostering a third. Our oldest was very protective at first and then both of ours were just indifferent to him for several months. Now that he's more active they are interested in him and come up to him for pets. The oldest is the only one who licks faces. All three dogs will let him pet and pull fur. I'm not too concerned about the pulling. the dogs are good and put up with a lot, but we do say no and redirect if he's pulling too much. I'm more concerned about him getting in between a dog and food when he starts moving. That's the only time the dogs get upset since they are beagles and love their food.

If I can ever figure out how to post a picture I will.

UnofficiallyLO

katess84 said:

We have two beagles of our own and we're fostering a third. Our oldest was very protective at first and then both of ours were just indifferent to him for several months. Now that he's more active they are interested in him and come up to him for pets. The oldest is the only one who licks faces. All three dogs will let him pet and pull fur. I'm not too concerned about the pulling. the dogs are good and put up with a lot, but we do say no and redirect if he's pulling too much. I'm more concerned about him getting in between a dog and food when he starts moving. That's the only time the dogs get upset since they are beagles and love their food.

If I can ever figure out how to post a picture I will.

Yay I love a pack of beagles! The one I have now is fine with food but my last was food aggressive as well even tho otherwise he was super sweet. I've told my SO we will need to be extra careful about that, just in case. Their noses just won't shut down

rockstarlaw

We have two dogs - Abel, a black lab, and Oliver, a mix. Both rescues. Both dogs love T and T loves to watch them play. Abel loves to lick T, whereas Oliver is very protective watching over T but a little suspect of letting T pet him since T's a fur grabber. Here's T riding Abel like a horse.

porterlove525

We have a love love relationship going on. Porter is so insanely tolerant of DS it's amazing! He is also insanely protective of him. Bullmastiffs and Boxers (his mix) are known to be loyal till the end though.

Porter has no issue so far with DS poking him, petting him, kicking him accidentally, etc. and he loves liking bananas and sweet potato off DS' face!

porterlove525

zazu13 said:

Aww. Jeslous of all your furbaby pics. We lost ours when the girls were only 2 months. I miss him every day.

Hugs!!!

SoulTermination

porterlove525 said:

We have a love love relationship going on. Porter is so insanely tolerant of DS it's amazing! He is also insanely protective of him. Bullmastiffs and Boxers (his mix) are known to be loyal till the end though.

Porter has no issue so far with DS poking him, petting him, kicking him accidentally, etc. and he loves liking bananas and sweet potato off DS' face!

This reminds me, my ILs have a Boxer and LO is the 5th grandbaby he's been through, never hurt one of them. Poor guy puts up with so much crap, lol.

katess84

@UnofficiallyLO, glad I'm not the only one who loves beagles!

Cassi215

My dogs love my babies and babies love dogs!!

Ashleypixie

Quinn thinks all the animals are funny. The cats are indifferent. Finn, our westie will eat her toys. Baxter, our golden, will lick her face or hands just to see how they taste. If she's sitting on my lap he also tries to get on my lap, which makes Finn jealous and suddenly I'm just over run by creatures on top of me.