[Spktyr]

Several years ago, I saw a neighbor’s unrestrained, unleashed dachshund annoy and try to take on my cat at the time.

The cat proceeded to start taking the dachshund apart and slapped him down a flight of stairs. Hint for dachshund: Taking on a very muscular 15lb cat that has all his teeth and claws is perhaps not the smartest thing in the world.

[Viking2002]

I'll raise and call in one particular instance: about eighteen years ago (give or take), we had taken our male Dachshund home with us to visit my mother at Christmas (his sister came along for the ride). She had a male orange tabby who tipped the scales at 24 pounds. All feline meat, barely an ounce of fat. Well, Tabby liked to hide in the Christmas tree, as cats are wont to do. Our doxie was sniffing along the fireplace hearth and noticed him in up in the tree somewhere. He went into full stalking mode, head down, tail wagging, and crept towards the tree. As soon as he got his nose into the boughs, this.......BASEBALL MITT came shooting out and literally slapped him back and forth so quickly, it was a blur. He backed off and stood there, puzzled, and looked at everyone in the room like, "What the hell was that?" He slowly crept off and went back downstairs with his tail tucked, and avoided the tree completely for the rest of the visit. He tangled with a Baby Huey cat that was 30" long and weighed twice his size, and he held a grudge for the rest of his life. Even after the cat passed away, he avoided the tree when we went to visit.