It's bonfire night (well it was) and mum saw a skinny mongrel (Alsatian x Labrador x Collie type thing) scared half to death in the street and took him in at least just until the fireworks stopped.
We've reported him found with the police, and we're keeping him until his owner comes forward but it looks like he's been straying for a very long time - nails all worn down, really bad fleas, bad ears, starving hungry, stinky, all stuff like that. The lost dog police person didn't think it sounded like anyone would be looking for him unless he'd been lost ages.
He's very friendly, the only problem is he's chased the cats, and now none of them will come in (except one I actually went and picked up and brought upstairs). OK it's only been a few hours, but if they don't get on he'd have to go to the dog warden - and then he'd only have 10 days...
The youngest two were very very close to our dog that died last year, so they probably don't remember him at all or how nice dogs can be. But he was half the size and very old. The stray wants to play and chase them.
He comes to his name (we called him Ollie) and we can call him off and tell him to stop and he does as he's told - when he chased the scarediest cat behind an armchair we could get him to leave her alone and stop going to see.
So has anyone sucessfully introduced a stray or rescued dog into a house with cats?