Training Advice

Question
Patt,

Thanks in advance for your time. I have a 4-month old female puppy. She is not a full-bred German Shepherd. She appears (from markings) to have some Husky in her. We rescued her from the dog shelter when she was about 10-12 weeks old. At the time she was playing along fairly well with our 4-year old cat. But as she has gotten bigger (she's at about 19 lbs) she plays with the cat a little too roughly now. It may be an issue of breed characteristics and would not be something I can train her out of. Outside of this, she seems to be the perfect dog.

Timothy Robson

Answer
HI TIMOTHY
IF THE CAT DOES NOT KNOW ENOUGH TO RUN AND HIDE AS THEY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OVER A DOG, THEN IT GETS WHAT IT DESERVES.
ALL AT ONCE THE PUP GREW UP TO KNOW SHE CAN DEFEAT THE CAT, THIS IS JUST DOG INSTINCTS FROM THE WILD PAC DAYS.  I GOT A QUESTION YESTERDAY, WHY DID MY DOG ROVER RUN AWAY AND WHEN HE CAME BACK HE BROUGHT 6 STRAYS WITH HIM, THEY RAN INTO THE YARD AND I THOUGHT HE WOULD RUN TO ME AND THEY KILLED, SHADOW.
WHEN A DOG GETS LOOSE AND ON THE RUN AND GATHERS UP DOGS IN ITS PATH THIS IS NATURAL INSTINCTS FROM THE WILD PAC DAYS OF DOGS AND I TOLD THIS PERSON TO TURN THE PAC INTO THE HUMANE SOCIETY TO PICK THEM UP THEY TURNED WILD AND KILLED YOUR PET THAT ROVER WAS RAISED WITH.
IT CAN HAPPEN AND THE OLD SAYING IS: DOGS DO NOT GET ALONG WITH CATS!  MY SHEPHERDS HAVE COST ME SOME MONEY WITH NEW PEOPLE MOVING IN FRONT OF US WITH TWO DECLAWED CATS THEY LEFT RUN DAY AND NIGHT, WELL GINO, MY BREEDING MALE HAS TONS OF PREY DRIVE AND KILLED THE WHITE CAT, JUST AN ALLEY CAT.  SO, THEY PROCEDED TO LET THE BLACK ONE RUN AND 4 OF THE DOGS GRABBBED IT I PAID THE VET BILL AND ITS OK BUT NOW THEY EITHER RID OF THAT CAT OR ARE KEEPING IT IN WHEN DECLAWED, HOW INHUMANE TO LET IT OUT.
JUST KEEP AN EYE, U MIGHT WANT TO GET A SPRAY BOTTLE WITH WATER AND A TBSP OF VINEGAR IN WITH IT AND SPRAY ITS FACE WHEN IT GETS ROUGH AND LOUDLY SAY, NO NO, STOP NOW!  DOGS DO LEARN OUR LANGUAGE AND BODY POSTURE AND VOICE COMMANDS WHEN WE ARE FIRM IN POSITIVE TRAINING AND THEY LEARN RIGHT FROM WRONG IF U TAKE TIME TO TRAIN IT.  GO FOR IT.

WARM REGARDS
PATT
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