Last week my dad brought home a dog, usually she's pretty quiet but any time someone leaves the room we have to keep her in she barks and whines until said person returns. What's so bad about this you might ask? The barking scares our poor cats to death. Apparently according to her old owner she was meant to get along really well with cats, but so far she has yet to show it. Once she got loose and chased Garfield, scaring him beyond reason until we finally caught her. The next day (Thursday) Garfield ran out the door and charged into the woods and we haven't seen him since. The other cats refuse to come near this door and hide when Gabby (the dog) barks. No matter what we do me and my mom cannot talk my dad into giving Gabby to someone else. He refuses to listen when we tell him that Gabby is scaring the cats and pretends Garfield is still at the house.
Does anyone have ANY ideas that can get my idiot to listen to us and get him to take Gabby to a better home? Or any ideas that can get the cats to feel OK with Gabby being here?
