Prey drive is a big reason that extreme caution is advised when introducing an adopted dog to a cat with an unknown history. Introducing pets is the least

Prey drive is a big reason that extreme caution is advised when introducing an adopted dog to a cat with an unknown history. Introducing pets is the least "natural" behavior ever. You are asking two predator animals to share a confined living space orders of magnitude smaller than their natural habitat. Conflicts there are most definitely not evidence of whom is a "natural predator" of whom. Dogs are a natural predator of all small mammals No. Even when a cat is much smaller than a dog, it's not going down without inflicting some nasty claw wounds... that's a lot of prone-to-infection wounds for not a lot of meat. And it's difficult to imagine a dog or a pack of dogs being able to catch a cat in the first place.