Kittens...

I would say go for it however I absolutely love cats and would have lots of cats if DH would let me

No seriously - I would consider how it will affect your dog and whether your dog could warm to the kitten after time. I have had heaps of cats but only ever one dog and they got along fine. The dog was an outside dog and the cat spent alot of time inside so I guess this helped.

Sorry not much help -hopefully someone with both dogs and cats will have some good advice.

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The kitten i have in mind is use to little kids (the owners have 3)

Our dog is a boxer and is mad and an inside dog....

What a cutie! We have a mad boxer too, as well as a cat. We had the cat first and basically Beans (the boxer) always wants to play with Mika (the cat) but Mika barely tolerates Beans. I wouldn't recommend getting an adult cat unless you knew it was already used to dogs.

If the kitten you have in mind is used to young kids then hopefully it wouldn't automatically take off when it sees the dog, cos if your boxer is anything like ours, if something runs away, then it's a game and he wants to chase it. (Although sometimes that backfires - our cat has been known to run through the house and hide behind a door, then jump out at the dog as he comes through )

Maybe take the boxer along to visit the kittens to see what the reaction is?

TBH I found toilet training our cat simple when he was a kitten, just took him out to the garden, used a warm flannel to rub above the base of his tail (simulates the mother cat's tongue, apparently they do that to stimulate them to 'go'), and he went, and we only needed to do that once and we never had any messes inside. But if you need kitty litter then you could make DH do it - it'll be 'his' cat anyway

yeah i thought it might destress him..Hopes

and Our boer will go mad but hopefully settle down once he knew the kitten was here to stay... i might just bite the bullet and get her... and yup dh cat so he can clean up mess!

She is beautiful. I say go for it. But then I love kittens and cats too.

As far as the dog goes - it'll take them both time to get used to each other, and there may be some 'arguments' while they establish the ranking/heirarchy in the house, but after a while they'll be fine with each other.
Even pets that don't become best friends usually learn to co-habitate in the same house.

Definately once you're pregnant you need to avoid the cat tray completely. Just make it DH's job. That's what I've done - we've had our 2 new kittens for about 10 days now and DH has to do all the 'dirty' work. I get all the cuddles.

Whats his name?

He's adorable. He and your dog will have a lot of fun together. And your little lad of course.

jack has settled in very welll - flynn the boxer is getting better he still follows Jack around so we always know where he is. rhyley keeps picking Jack up and putting him where he should - actually this afternon I was wondering where RHyley was - found him under the tramp with Jack on his knee and Flynn the boxer sitting right next to him - so cute had to take photos (will put on here one day just can't get on the big computer to do it)