We love Riggs. The cats don't really love Riggs.
Mouser avoids Riggs. Scratch antagonizes Riggs.
The dog trainers told us to just let the cat and dog interaction happen organically. Their theory is that Scratch will scratch Riggs on the nose a couple of times and Riggs will get the message. Riggs doesn't seem to be getting the message.
The main issue with "organic" interaction between Scratch and Riggs is that we don't want Cub around while there is cat scratching and dog growling. This afternoon Cub was playing with the front door (sounds like a fun kid, right?) and Scratch and Riggs met for Kitchen Death Match 5.
It went on for about three minutes. I still can't tell, but it looks like Riggs wants to play. Scratch (for the most part) was the one chasing Riggs. It was pretty funny. Scratch was vicious and I had no idea that fat kitty could move so quickly and jump so high. We had to eventually break up the interaction when Scratch jumped up on the entertainment center and we didn't want Riggs to hurt the tv (I mean, the cat).
Here are a couple of pictures from today.
This is Buttin pulling Cub and me in the wagon while walking Riggs at the same time - it was like a workout.
Cub woke up from his nap after only 45 minutes so Buttin brought him to the couch where they slept for another hour. It was pretty freaking cute.
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