slightly off topic but the subject of different species getting on together has been raised on the the thread, back in the mid 1990's i took delivery of a 7 year old lhasa apso "fat ted" who had little interest in anything other than sleeping and eating.
all that changed when i was asked to look after a cockatiel by friends going on holiday.
ted was obsessed and straight after dinner every evening she would sprint into the living room to stare at the bird.
her party trick was to wait for the bird to doze off then bark loudly into the cage startling the unfortunate creature.