Lotties Cat Crush

Lottie (aka the brindle rocket or the insinkerator) isn't what you'd call a cat trainable greyhound. Normally if out walking and her ultra sensitive cat radar picks up a feline presence, she'll go nuts until she's dragged away from where her finely tuned cat detection apparatus has decided the cat in question is located. Other times of course she'll just look and wont react at all.

Lotties cat radar is truly something to behold. We can be walking down the street and no cats are in view. Suddenly Lotties ears are standing to full attention and she's detected a cat. We've lost count of the amount of times that we've been sure that there was no cat about, only to find that a cat tucked away under a gate, car, letterbox, hedge or sitting in a window 200 meters up the road. We're still not sure how Lotties nearly fool-proof cat radar works, but trust me on this, it really works.

When we adopted Lottie we were told that she was a cat question mark,or that she may be ok with cats, but then again she may not. It appeared that felines made her anxious. Our elderly cat had passed away so we weren't too worried. Lottie has since lunged, barked at and carried on like a furry nutter at cats more times than we can count. Other times she can be bizarrely uninterested.

As we're cautious sorts and are aware of Lotties generally high levels of nuttiness when it comes to cats. We watch Lottie like a hawk when out walking and keep her on a short lead should her cat radar detect a feline bogey at 3 o'clock.

Bizarrely while out walking Lottie a while back we began to notice that she was fascinated by townhouses at the end of our street. Each time we walked past, Lottie would slow down, staring across the road. She'd even hold off having a pee (even when she was clearly busting) until she was outside these townhouses so she could spend a little more time staring.

Then it dawned on us. There was an elderly (but oh so cute) ginger cat that often sat outside the townhouses and Lottie had developed a cat crush on it.

Now when we walk past Lotties ears perk up, her tail wags and she smiles. she's not interested in lunging, barking or going nuts. Instead, she'll quietly stand and look longingly at the ginger cat (who is of course is blissfully unaware that it has a greyhound admirer). We think its terribly cute.