Here it is, better late than never: a video of my pets. Dexter and the Bear. It should be Mr Bear, really, but that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it! What a rigmarole it was, trying to get them both behave for the camera – when the dog wasn’t licking the cat, the cat was licking the dog and when neither of them were licking something, they were after the packet of Dreamies I’d hidden underneath me for emergency bribes.
Most of you, if you’re regular readers, will know Dexter the dog (he’s a Cockapoo, which is a cross between a poodle and a cocker spaniel) and Mr Bear (a British Shorthair cat) but I don’t think they’ve ever been in a video together. Certainly not recently. When I was filming, I couldn’t think of very many exciting things to say about them, but as I was editing the video I suddenly thought of two questions that I knew everyone would ask:
do the cat and the dog get on"
how did the cat and the dog react to the new baby"

Rather than film an entirely new video addressing these points I thought I’d stick a couple of explanatory paragraphs into the Youtube description box, but to save you having to click through I’ve reproduced my little Q&A here.
Q) How do the dog and cat get along together" Did you have to introduce them in a special way"

A) They get on really well but we introduced them very slowly, first with the puppy in the kitchen for a whole week and t...