A good friend of mine has an 8 month labradoodle puppy that she is very keen to socialise properly. So as she's been having a few problems with him starting to chase cats in the garden, she asked if she could bring her puppy to my house to meet cats who were dog savvy and were unlikely to run, but instead stand their ground...
Well, pup duly bounced into the house and my smallest (most feisty) cat stood in the middle of the kitchen. Pup immediately shoved his nose up her bum before we could even react. The cat was OUTRAGED...
Puss turned around and smacked him very hard across the nose. I mean walloped him hard. Pup yelped and high tailed it out of the kitchen door, up the garden with the cat in hot persuit behind him, smacking his legs as he ran. Puss was about 5th of pups size. Pup duly came back into the kitchen looking very sheepish. Cat followed him in, looking very smug.
Latest reports are that pup is completely ignoring all cats and walking away from them if they are in his garden...
Disclaimer here: I'm experienced with cat behaviour & dogs, knew exactly what I was doing with the cat and how she would react because she has, over her 16 years, trained countless boisterous dogs & I use her to cat test foster dogs. Pup in question, has never shown agression to cats, he's just chased them because they ran and he is actually a very well mannered, very bidable chap. I would not recommend that you try this approach for yourself and at no point was any animal in a dangerous posistion (although the labradoodle pup would claim otherwise!)
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Bit mean, but I did find it very funny...
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QuietTiger · 26/07/2011 12:39
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