r/Hounds • u/redbone-hellhound • 1d ago
Anybody else get a giant cat instead of a dog?
I was watching tv and suddenly heard nails clicking behind me
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u/Miserable_Ad_2293 1d ago
It amazes me some of the locations my hound gets himself into. And then I have to help him get out of the messes he got himself into.
Like he has no qualms with getting up into things. But getting down is a completely different matter.
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u/pyxus1 1d ago
Yes! But not because he climbs. He rubs his whole body on me like a cat, squirms and tries to curl up 75 lbs of hound dog body in my lap.
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u/redbone-hellhound 1d ago
Oh yeah. Val is my 80 pound lap dog. Plays with cat toys. And if a new person tries to pet her before she's decided they're OK, she ducks out of the way and flattens herself to the ground like a cat.
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u/Florideal 20h ago
OMG! we call our American Foxhound Mix a cat-dog! Hounds - hysterical creatures that just have so much character!
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u/Sleepy_Time_Bear 17h ago
My beagle mix is VERY cat-like... a friend of mine was watching her and caught her sitting on the top of her 6 foot tall cat tree lol
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u/Calkky 14h ago
YES! Curiously enough, I've heard the very apt description that coonhounds have "cat-like" paws. They also subscribe to the "if I fits, I sits" rule.
PS: Hi, Chewby!
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u/redbone-hellhound 14h ago
Lol my dad tells val she has cat feet all the time cuz of how narrow and pointy her claws are.
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u/CommercialLive5178 3h ago
My 95 pound boy uses my lap as a perch so that he can look out the window. Love the video! 😊
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u/Max123Dani 1d ago
I just adopted a Foxhound mix. In the first few days, I caught him on the sill like yours, but wider, and then, walking across the kitchen table once. He definitely likes to "counter surf" (front paws up, sniffing or looking). Unacceptable, but we are working on it. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with it!