[poodletalk]

My parents recently adopted a cat, when she first came in the home, she was very quiet and she seemed to get along well with their senior black lab Lucy. Lucy, just ignores the cat, she has NO interest in her.

For the past little while, the cat seems to be very jealous over Lucy and wants to attack her first thing in the morning.

On Saturday when my parents got up, Lucy needed out and the cat wouldn't let Lucy go down the stairs. She started hissing/spitting at her and started swatting her with her paw.

My Mother pulled Lucy by collar, since she started growling at the cat because the abuse she was getting from the cat. The cat took advantage from Lucy being held back and scratched her right across the nose and made her nose bleed. Lucy started whinning and whinning from the hit.

My Mother tried to get the cat to go away, but couldn't, the cat is extremly stubborn. Finally, my Father came in the room and made the cat go away so Lucy could go out.

Sunday the same thing happened, the cat wouldn't let Lucy go down the stairs to go out.

The cat is picking on Lucy more often and we don't like it one bit. Lucy is 65 pounds, extremly gentle and the cat is 10 pds and acts like she's a big tough lion.

How can we make the cat stop picking on the dog..