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Here's Tess and Annie at rest.

Although if you notice the blur in this photo, that's Tess' tail frantically spinning in circles. Annie's been known to be rather intrigued by moving parts on dogs. Good thing she's looking in the other direction.  

This goes without saying when you watch the video, but owners say this Boston terrier Polly is best friends with Hermoine the cat.

Ready, all together now: Awwwwwwww.

This Chihuahua mix rescued from the South L.A. shelter by Noah's Bark should get the Mom of the Year Award.

Nicknamed "Jolie," the dog has adopted a tiny black-and-white kitten that she's now nursing alongside her five newborn puppies. Noah's Bark volunteer Shelly Gomez is keeping them at her Hawthorne home until all are ready to be adopted.

Here's the story link. And check out this adorable online photo slide show posted by Daily Breeze photographer Sean Hiller.

Here's one of the shots, but there are more online. And, yeah, they're all pretty much this cute:

 Photo by Sean Hiller/Daily Breeze

Tess & Annie are far from cuddle-ready. But they do sometimes get close enough for a quick photo (Tess was already on her way out of this frame, in fact).  

Are you a dog person?

Or a cat person?

A story posted at CNN today reports that a new study has come up with some distinctions:

 

 

 

From the story:

 

About 4,500 participants answered questions that measured their personality inclinations in five areas: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.

These five dimensions have been shown in previous research to encompass most personality traits. They also indicated whether they considered themselves cat people, dog people, both or either.

It turns out that the "dog people" -- based on how people identified themselves, not on what animals they actually own -- tend to be more social and outgoing, whereas "cat people" tend to be more neurotic but "open," which means creative, philosophical or nontraditional ...

Read the story and tell us what you think. Do they get it right?

While I consider myself officially still a "dog" person (and personality type), I do like cats, too. That's one of my 2 dogs, Tess, and her cat, Border Kitty Annie, in the photos above.

Annie the cat has taken to hanging out on one of the dog beds.

I think she kind of likes pretending to be a dog, especially with Tess the border collie lying on the next dog bed over -- and always appearing a bit unnerved as Annie lies down right next to her, one dog bed over.

Maybe Annie saw this poll that says Americans like dogs better than cats.

But as a friend of mine pointed out, cats don't really care if you like them or not, so unlike politicans, polls don't affect them very much.

On Sunday, it will have been 3 months since I brought a cat (Annie Oakley, aka Border Kitty) into the mix with my 2 border collies, Cowboy and Tess.

We took the introductions very slowly and gradually. And now, it looks like it's all paid off.

I knew we'd made progress last night when I walked into the living room and saw them all, either sleeping/resting and/or hanging out together, within relatively close proximity to each other.

Lakota, a 7-year-old Australian shepherd, has taken over mom duties for a litter of kittens whose real mom was hit and killed by a car.

The dog and kittens are at the family farm of Colleeen and Robert Nesseth in Snohomish, Wash.

AP Photos/The Herald, Dan Bates

HT: Unleashed