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Hi so I have a 9 year old pit mix. She is amazing and is great with people. I recently got a cat (back in July) who she seems to be ok with but is having issues as well.

A little back story on my pup. I adopted her from a shelter when she was about a year old. She was great at dog parks and she lived with a second dog that my dad got 8 months after we got her. They got into fights at first but worked it out and were best friends. When my father passed I was able to adopt the other dog out as I moved in with my mom who already had another dog. He was also a pit. They got along great never had any issues. When I moved in with a ex boyfriend we got a puppy together. There was a Incident with food that she attacked the puppy resulting in needing to get the puppies eye removed. They never had a issue after that. When we broke up my ex took the ( a year and half after this incident) he kept the puppy and I kept my dog.

After the fact she was a only dog for a good amount of time and I didn't take her to any dog parks. At the time she was living with a cat who she got along great with.

When we moved my friend took her for a night and bit my friends dog on her head when she entered my dog's kennel where there was food (yes we know she is food aggressive with other animals and I've been keeping food away from other animals since the day I got her.) after this I was worried that she would hurt another animal and kept her where she couldn't. My mom would take her and tell me she was getting along great with 2 dogs she was around.

Now on to today. There has been 3 instances since I've gotten the kitten. The first was for sure food and was 100% on me. I let my dog sit by me on the couch while I was eating and the cat walked my. My dog corrected him but he did get marks on his face that bled. We did take him to the vet and he was 100% ok and just got some meds for swelling. Since then she has been a lot better about this and we have made it a point to keep her away from us while we eat. The second incident happened while we were sleeping. It seemed like my cat hit my dog in the muzzle while she was sleeping between us on her back. She got scared and flailed her arms hitting my cat in the face. He didn't really get hurt besides a mark above his eye from her nails. Again we got him checked by the vet who said he was 100% good.

Now my dog did break her dew claw this week and we have been keeping a eye on it. She doesn't like anyone touching it as she starts to do nervous licks and growls when I look at it. I'm not sure what happened as I didn't see it today since it happened behind me but my dog and cat got in to it again today. This time my cat got cut above the nose and down the cheek. I'm not sure if my cat walked between her legs and hit her dew claw and she clawed him or if it was because there was a bag of trash near by. (From the looks of it, seems to be the dew claw) My question is where do I go from here? I Iove them both and I don't feel like my dog has any aggression towards the cat at all besides these instances. My boyfriend doesn't want to give away either animal but I don't know if this is something a trainer could help with or what I should do. Any advice would help alot.

Also I did call the emergency vet for my car and they said my cat will be fine to go to the vet tomorrow and shouldnt need stitches. Also probably going to take my dog in for her dew claw.

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