It's known that the females are always dominant in cat colonies so I'm not surprised that Fairy has done this. When my eldest female died, the younger has also been more dominant although she fights less with the others, who are all male, but I think that she has a softer personality in general
It's amazing to see it. It's especially bright in my house, because 15 dogs and 4 cats live with me. These are two rather large families.
I don't know how you keep the peace with the dogs! I have no dogs and 7 cats. The last cat is a stray that can't or won't leave but getting my cats to accept him is still problematic after more than one year. I have one female and 6 males but it was actually worse with 2 females and 4 males
There are sometimes conflicts between dogs. But there were never any problems between dogs and cats. My dogs ando our cats!)