***It’s been my personal experience that a cat’s best friend and playmate is a dog.***
If you raise them from pups and kittens together they will become the best off friends.
This is true , but even having to do that is not necessarily a requirement.
I recently had to put my last cat down as she suffered kidney failure one morning which I think was brought about by aggressive and visible eye cancer.
She and my Shepherd were friends. The dog came with me to say goodbye, kitty was a member of the herd and all, so Isis was familiar with cats, she’s about 3 years right now.
I adopted a new cat a couple weeks later, a rescue cat from per smart 5 years old, 20 lbs mountain lion who hates other cats I was told. SO I asked what’s her disposition to dogs, and they said should be fine, and that it is also their experience that cats and dogs eventually get along.
Well that has been the case. Stormy did not like Isis at first, and as a shepherd, Isis herds Stormy all day long, that is until Stormy herds Isis.
These two have become great friends and love to lay next to each other then play fight, stalk each other, hunt squirrels at the back door.
I just love watching their friendship.