Are Cats & Dogs - Soul Mates?

 

Soul Mates?

I had heard quite once how Chows are very cat like in their demeanor and attitudes and since I even have had two of them in my life I can confirm this! Given this similarity i used to be still unprepared for my current Chow’s love of cats. My last dog chased cats like every genetically correct pup should do, so i used to be amazed at my current pup and her feline fascination.

My pal Keisha was only five months old when she met her first cat. His name was Pongo and he was also five months old. We were visiting with family in Omaha Nebraska for Christmas and Keisha decided to form friends with Pongo.
Pongo would don't have anything to try to to with her!

They tip toed around one another for 3 days even coming nose to nose eventually. Then on Boxing Day we had just finished our lunch of leftovers…you know turkey sandwiches and such, once we heard a crash within the kitchen. Assuming nothing serious we were slow to react.

When we finally moseyed into the kitchen to urge happening the post lunch cleanup they were caught within the act! There they were…Pongo and Keisha nose to nose eating the turkey that somebody (?!?!?) had pushed off of the counter onto the ground . that they had a fine feast together and even after their tag team mischief, Pongo was still reluctant to become fast friends although i feel he was starting to warm up to the thought , in any case Keisha had eaten the turkey and not him!

Unfortunately we had to go away before the connection was cemented. we've not seen Pongo since but Keisha responds most enthusiastically to his name still, over three years later.

Keisha is nearly four years old now and since meeting Pongo she has tried to form friends with every cat she meets. they need all wanted absolutely nothing to try to to together with her . then came MOJO.

Mojo is owned by a neighbour and is an outside cat. He totally suits his name and struts through the “hood” as if he owns it and has complete control over all that goes down in it. He definitely has his MOJO goin on!

At first Keisha approached him cautiously, and he would bat at her together with his paws, but never with claws out. Slowly but surely they came closer and closer to every other. There was the dancing around one another period that looked really funny as each would take their turn jumping forward then backward not unlike some ritual. Then came the purring then the rolling over and belly sniffing. then Mojo began to steer around and under 

Keisha strategically putting his tail in her face. She managed to take care of her aloof dignity when he does the tail in face thing. All of this has progressed to Mojo coming for walks with us, he come to go to and waits at the door for Keisha to return bent play. Keisha will put her paw on his bum to urge the sport of chase going and if Mojo is within the mood he will start the sport by running or he will roll onto his back and swat at Keisha with all four paws. Mojo is that the alpha within the relationship in spite of his 10 lbs to Keisha’s 60!

It is the foremost wonderful thing to watch and therefore the neighborhood is mesmerized by these two fast friends.

To see them together one wonders why some cats and dogs get along et al. want to destroy one another . Is it perhaps a past life spent together? Early influences like Pongo? Maybe Keisha was a cat in her last life and thus the affinity for cats and cat like behaviour? Or are they only all very different souls with very different personalities and perspectives? Who knows for sure? All i do know is that my heart always warms once I see them together and am awed by this amazing friendship that really seems like soul mates in action.