cats and a new doberman

Question
My boyfriend and I live together. We have two Siamese cats (1 male and 1 female both are about 2 years old). He has been wanting a Doberman pincher very badly. I'm am terrified to bring a dog in the cats life!
I had my female first (Isabelle)then we bought our male (Zane)for her to have a friend. Isabelle did not like when we brought Zane home. She hissed him in to a hole inside one of our walls.
But then about a week later we found the two of them sleeping together. So yes my cats get along now. But Isabelle is still not the same as when I first had her. She is very stubborn but still can be loving.
For example when Zane stayed overnight at the vets (from getting neutered) Isabelle was all over me and very friendly like she was when I first had her. And the next day when Zane came home she started hissing at him. It took a day or two for her to get used to him again.
But Zane is the cat I am most worried about. He is so scared of his shadow. I know it is his personality but he will run from us sometimes if we go to pet him.  So I'm afraid a big Doberman will make him crap himself(he has lost bowel movements before from being so scared).My cats live the best life; they are loved and get a lot of attention.
I get so scared that they are going to not get along with a different breed, which will also get ten times the size of them.
I realize this is very long but I really wanted to give a brief description from day one with my cats to help better your answer.
My two cats are my babies. I would hate to bring a big dog in their territory and have them hide under a bed the rest of their life. I appreciate any information you give me. I have no experience with dogs. I have never owned one. Please let me know if this would be a mistake to get this breed with my cats.

Answer
Hi Michelle;
First, I recommnd you do this.
Go to this site and read about this method of animal massage and what can be done with it.
I am not going to say it is a magic bullet, but I have not had it work for anything I have tried it for, from curing dogs of far of thunderstorms, excessive aggression and excessive barking, and relief from pain of Arthritis and post surgry recovery.
You can order a video to teach you to do the massages, for any animal you can name just about.
I got my daughter one for cats.
She has two, much like your's. One is a little priss pot that bosses the male around like he is her slave.
for your cat that is high strung, and easily cowed. A massage for 5 to 15 minutes before you introduce him to a dog would calm him, and make it go much smoother.
For that little girl that needs to klearn to act like a nice little lady, it would relax her, and maybe she would be a little less territorial.
I would use the massage for calming on your cat awhile, maybe 4 or 5 massages, before even taking it around a dog.
Isabel is very territorial. Siamese are often like that.
We giot our daughter one for her 5th birthday, and my German Shepherd that loves all things wanted so badly to play with her and give her lovins, but Yu Phin ( who weighed just under a half pound. She was 7 weeks old, and Lady weighed 100 pounds) would fly into Ldy's face, going for the eyes.
Lady would just lie down and cover her eyes, and let the little brat flail at her.
I told the kids not to play with Yu Phin if sahe wouldn't play with Lady.
She was so active and wanted to romp.
So for 3 days, when she got in someone's lap, they told her to play with Lady, and put her down.
It finally dawned on her that if she was going to play, she would have to play with the dog.
So she did.
That under one pound cat and that 100 pound dog would romp through the house. We had hardwood floors, and the dog ran without making any noise at all. The cat sounded like a horse running through the house. LOL
I have since had a lot of mixed families.
If they aren't just thrust on each other, they can become best friends.
I would concentrate first on getting Zane more comfortable in general.
That shouldn't take but a few days of massages. Maybe 3 or 3 per day.
Then take him to the Humane Society shelter, and let him stay in your arms while you look at some dogs.
It doesn't have to be large dogs, just dogs that are used to cats.
When he is fairly comfortable with dogs in general, a few visits shopuld do it.
The people there are used to introducing dogs and cats, then you could start looking for a Dobe.
If you are wanting an adult dog or one that is not a very young puppy, ask at the shelter.
I work with several rescue gropups here, and there is one rescue that only takes Dobermans.
You would be surprised how many they take in.
I live in the Dallas/FT.Worth area, and people let go of or just abandon full blooded dogs all the time.There is a German Shepherd rescue, one for Pit Bulls, and several other breeds have rescue people who just concentrate on one breed.
The opnes I work with take all comers, both cats and dogs.
It is not that hard to find a full blooded cat or dog of almost any breed.
These dogs are sometimes abused or abandoned. Sometimes people want one, but think they can just bring it home, and it will behave as well as Lassie, without even a minimum of training, and when the animal is a little trouble, they get rid of it.
These animals KNOW you have saved them, and they make wonderful companions.
When we take an abused or abandoned or unwanted animal, we foster them in our homes, with our own pets, and watch them for temperment, habits, how they get along with children, other animals, etc.
You don't jusyt get a pig in a poke, because we want to place them where they wil be accepted and wanted, and where they will have a permanent, loving home.
Finding a Doberman that likes cats is not that hard to do.
A little preparation on your part before thrusting them together, should make it possible for you to have your cats, a Dobie and a peacful home.
Go here and read about what can be done with the massages, and you can order a video from there.

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The last mixed family we had, I brought my sister's cat home with me when she died. She had kept the cat indoors, and she had only seen dogs through the window.
My 4 dogs acted like I had brought them the greatest thing in the world.
We made a place where she could go, and see everything, but no dogs could get in there, and she could get out any time she wanted to.
The dog nuzzled her through the little fence, and in 3 days she was out with them.
Tjhey would loe all over her, and when we called her to let us pet her, she would give us a haughty look, look around for a dog or two, and stick her tail straight up in the air, and walk slowly to her dogs, and while they were smooching her, she would look at us as if to say,"I don't need you, I have my slaves".LOL

Good luck.

Charlotte