Of all of the things I've learned in the last year, my absolute favourite is that cats establish dominance by grooming others, but rabbits establish dominance by making others groom them.
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Of all of the things I've learned in the last year, my absolute favourite is that cats establish dominance by grooming others, but rabbits establish dominance by making others groom them. This means that you can put a cat and a rabbit together and the cat will groom the rabbit and both will assume that they are now leaders of the pack as a result.
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John Regehrreplied to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) last edited by
@david_chisnall until the cat eats the rabbit
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Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)replied to John Regehr last edited by
@regehr @david_chisnall rabbits and cats can get along; I've seen it work before
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dataramareplied to Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) last edited by
@egallager @regehr @david_chisnall A friend of mine used to have a cat and a rabbit who seemed to be best friends (and yes, the cat would constantly groom the rabbit). It should probably be mentioned here that the rabbit was *absolutely enormous* (IIRC he was a French Lop) and probably not something any housecat would think of as prey. He was a bit bigger than the cat, at any rate.
But the cat was also very mellow and friendly with other animals, she'd later befriend an Australian water dragon.
