You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your

host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 53 of your new puppies podcast I'm Debbie and today I'm

going to give you my best tips on how to introduce your puppy or dog to your cat.

So really cat is just an example of any animal that's not a dog

that your new dog needs to share the house or maybe even the backyard with.

So I've been asked about bunnies, ferrets, I've had to do this with chickens.

But the tips are the same because it comes down to it.

It's about teaching your dog to be calm around your cat

and making sure that everybody is not only physically physically safe but feels safe as well.

Now just like with everything there's a lot of it depends when we talk about

how long this is going to take or exactly what we need to do, because it

depends on, say, your cat's personality.

If you have one of those confident cats that are maybe just kind of annoyed by the dog, then

this process is going to go a lot faster.

If you have a skittish cat that hides under the bed at any movement inside the house, it's going to take a lot longer.

And it also depends on your dog.

You know, is it just your puppy just wants to play, but maybe they're just

being a little too rambunctious or is your dog trying to chase your cat?

Obviously in that scenario you're going to go incredibly slow. So that

brings me to the first piece of advice I always give is to take it slow. I know that it can be daunting because maybe you are you have to

like split your house the cat gets the upstairs the dog gets the downstairs maybe

the cat has to live in the bedroom or maybe the cat has to live in the bedroom, or maybe the dog has to live in the

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