Will my Cat eventually accept our newly adopted Dog?
For the best part of a year we've been occasionally looking after a small dog. Only in short periods - a week here, a day a week occasionally.
At first, the cat was petrified and hid under the bed.
As time went by, the cat became seemingly more and more confident to the point of the cat being very much in charge. 1011
If the dog goes near the cat, the cat hits her. She hisses at the dog whenever she sees her. The dog isn't overly bothered, she just goes about her day not really paying much attention to it.
Through unfortunate (for the owner) circumstances we've adopted the dog full time.
Will my cat eventually accept the dog and just be ok with it? She seems to have gotten slowly better (in small percentages) over time - will occasionally share the same bed at night, if she wants feeding then she doesn't really acknowledge the dogs existence etc.
For reference - cat is 11, dog is 6. 679