I am glad I am not the only one mixes cats and dogs. I have 2 cats, plain old british tom moggies, both rescued. Tiggy, the tabby is around 13. WHen he was brought home he was adopted (at 5 weeks old) by my old collie bitch. He is sometimes a bit confused as to whether he is a dog or a cat, comes for walks with the dogs. Subsequently when we bought a pup Tiggy had a hand in bringing him up, and did the same with the young one. They are border terriers and 12 and almost 4 now. The younger cat is almost 10 and black and white. Spookily the youngest dog was bought to replace the old collie, who he never met. He has all her habits, both good and bad, and is completely different from the first terrier.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."