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The Slice had asked about friendships involving horses and barn cats. “Well, Maggie’s not exactly a horse,” 
wrote North Idaho’s Diane Newcomer. “She’s a 47-year-old mule.” Maggie has a feline friend, a 5-year-old orange mouser named Thunderfoot. “They have been buddies ever since Thunderfoot was a kitten,” said Newcomer, a retired librarian who lives with her surveyor husband on a ranch near Clark Fork. They have horses, cattle, and Maggie the white mule. And then there’s the sturdy cat that got her name from the sound she made scampering across a tin roof as a kitten. “She joins Maggie for breakfast every day, and most evenings for dinner,” said Newcomer/Paul Turner, SR Slice. More here.
Question: Have you had any pets who got along despite being different species?
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hdw on November 28 at 1:29 p.m.
You could walk into the barn at my old riding school and see the rows of horses in their paddocks. There was a cat on the back of almost every horse, sometimes two. The horses seemed to like the company, and it made for a nice warm place to sleep for the cats.
In addition, they kept down the mice population. I’m sure the horses didn’t mind that either.