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We got a new doggie (1.5 year old fox terrier mix) to keep the cat company (9 mos).
I kept them apart for 3 days, thinking I was doing the cat a favor.
Decided to finally ignore them and the cat is now chasing the dog, and the dog wants to hide on my lap.
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They'll be at each other until they figure out alpha order, then it'll be calm sailing!
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Sounds like the cat has already established the Alpha role ...
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That's pretty common.
I had a Great Dane, long ago and a cat. We had the cat first so the GD grew up with the cat.
The cat established territory very quickly and they got along famously.
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We adopted a male greyhound (Bacchus) and then a female (Hera) in short order (the male needed a pack buddy). We already had a senior female cat (Canada).
Bacchus sniffed at the cat once, she walloped him across the snout, and he figured it out. Cat isn't nice; leave it alone.
Hera, on the other hand, was an agitator. Once or twice a week she had to nose at the cat. Canada always looked disgusted, like "Really? We're doing this again?" and then smacked Hera across the nose.
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Our 4-month old kitten Koko chases away our 2-year old cat Simba.
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That is more like survival of the fattest.
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To the same end!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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My neighbor feeds his cats sequentially.
Calm cat is fed first to make it alpha, etc
Not sure if it will work cross breed but it is worth a shot.
Feed the dog first to unthrone the aggressive cat.
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Lunchtime musings - nothing important here 
Since I started working from home (early in the Covid-19 pandemic) I rarely break for lunch. I eat while I work - usually reheating leftovers.
I am curious what others do. Do you prepare a fancy meal? Step away from work for some amount of time? Skip lunch altogether?
Best wishes - Craig
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Usually a light lunch; cottage cheese and fruit.
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I work best during the day when eating light meals.
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I work best when I get up very early,2AM - 4AM and work a couple of hours. I get a lot of work done.
After that I guess tired kicks in and my productivity falls off.
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I don't often cook lunch: normally I make a sandwich and a coffee. Occasionally, I'll heat a hotdog in the sous vide, or heat some soup I made recently for that very purpose.
I do stop for lunch: breakfast is generally around 06:00, and I'm pretty hungry by lunchtime.
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A 2 quart container of salad (no lettuce), lots of black pepper and vinegar, and a little ham and oil. Keeps the usual post lunch crash  in check.
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I have a frozen lasagna ready to heat up in the microwave. Then I'll eat it at my desk.
I don't eat very healthfully.
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I'll usually have leftovers or a sandwich and eat while I work. However, that doesn't mean that I don't take an hour in the middle of the day to enjoy some outdoor exercise time. Thus, there is now a separation between "lunch" and "lunchtime." Something that the pandemic helped create. 
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Peanut butter and Nutella on wheat bread with a bag of microwave popcorn, unless there are decent leftovers.
That hasn't changed from my pre-pandemic and going to the office.
When I went to the office I never went out for lunch, except when the company was paying for a lunch outing.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Years ago (28 or 29  ) I would take my lunch and sit in my cubicle or somewhere in the company and eat.
Then one day my boss approached me mid-bite into my sandwich: "I need you to take this Tech Support call."
Me: "Oh sorry, I'm on lunch.
BOSS: Take the call.
Me: You can forward it to Ken. He's on right now, covering lunch.
BOSS: No, I want you to take the call.
Me: mmm....<muttering under my breath> <picks up phone>
That was the last day I ever ate lunch inside a company.
After that, I always left the premises for lunch.
28 years later, I WFH and I still go out to lunch most days. 
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I've somehow gotten used to eating one meal a day after work. The exceptions are weekends when the wife is home and puts it in front of me! 
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Right now, I invite previous coworkers for lunch, to catch up. If nothing planned, then yes, break for an hour.
Fancy meal is called dinner, and is after work. Lunch in Europe is bread. Not even toasted. We eat bread with cheese. Living next to Germany, sometimes a wurst is there.
I did the fancy stuff too, but it would cost the same as an hour of work. That's just not worth it. 40 hrs, minus 5 suddenly. No, just no.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Lunch in Europe is bread.
Not in my Europe! In Stockholm everyone I know has a proper meal. Take-away or restaurant (or a full meal from home).
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Bread is proper and appropriate. Anything else is luxury.
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Yes most certainly. But I am a spoiled brat. In Sweden everybody is spoiled!
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