Cats are little dicks to dogs. That’s well known.
I have a cat that gets hairballs from groom dogs. He loves dogs.
When I was younger, I had a wolf/shepard cross...He weighed around 90-100 lbs...
He never hurt a cat, but next door was a little kitten that came in the back yard...Smokey put his nose down to smell the kitten and it ran to a tree...
Smokey followed and the kitten started to climb but was too young to go very high...Smokey put his paws on the tree and rased his snout toward the scared little kitten....
The kitten figured, I guess, it was all over and flipped around and latched all it \’s paws and claws around Smokey’s muzzle...
he went running across the yard yelping and dragging his nose on the ground...
The kitten finally let go and Smokey stood there looking at the cat...When the kitten and arched it’s little back, Smokey started backing up and warily watched the kitten walk by....
He never went to sniff another cat....
I have an outdoor nearly feral calico that lives in my garage and around the house. She is a tiny thing. I have two dogs who think they are always going to get that cat every time the garage door opens whether she is in there or not, they tear in there like they are going to rip her to shreds. She usually hides on a shelf or car, waits for them to walk by and then calmly trots out the door to the yard and woods. The dogs have collars and we have an invisible barrier Petsafe system so she knows how far they can go and at times waits just past the barrier prissing about to the dogs going crazy, it’s hilarious.
Well one Saturday afternoon I was working in the garage and the cat was in there and I opened the door except she was not up high and out of sight. The larger Irish setter come charging in and had her cornered and moved in with me yelling Katie you are not going to like this! She moved closer to the cat and with no growl or hisses just a hard audible slap across the dogs nose and the dog starts yelping in pain and the cat darts out towards the door.
In the meantime the small dog a jack Russell decides I hear this commotion with that cat I better get in on this and he comes tearing in the garage barking and growling all tough like and the cat and him come head to head. The cat never hesitated she hammered him right across the nose hard with claws in one motion and kept right on running and he spun around yelping and carrying on. By the time the two dogs got their senses about them the cat was at the foot of the driveway sitting beyond the invisible barrier and slowly swishing her tail back and forth and looking at the dogs like, come at me again. I cracked up at the whole thing.