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Rottweilers => Rottweiler Discussions => : Britz June 23, 2007, 11:45:28 PM
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ok this just seems wierd to me.
Zeus is now around 11-12 weeks ol' and well are cat is 1 year. Well at first the cat hated Zeus. Zeus woudl go near and the cat owuld get mad sence zeus woudl jusp on him and the cat woudl stick up for himself. Well recently they have been getting along great. THey sleep 2gether eat 2gether everything that is untill we are in view. When we are in view its like zeus has to go show off and beat up his friend. HE will seriously jump on the cats back and grab him by the head and the cat now sits/lays there and takes it. We have gave him trouble for this and time outs sence the cat howels in pain and cryies. NOw why isnt the cat fighting back no more? I know Zeus is alot bigger than he was in the begging but he*l I dont wanthim to think he can sit ther and attack the cat im scared that one day he will actually kill it by play with it to death.
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Jenn, Thank I have been working with the leave it command but havent had much luck I guess ill start another thread lol and ask for advice or is there any threads in here to help train the leave it command. Zeus was doing very g ood coming when called sitting when told we just started sitting pretty lol Like abeg but it seems like all of a sudden he thinks he shouldnt have to do all this any more argg.. He is one bull headed male lmao But Im keeping on top of him .
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I have that problem with Remy and my sister's cat, George. Mind you George incises Remy to no end, which was fine when they were the same size, but now Remy is so much bigger and stronger he doesn't realize he hurts George. We leash Remy before any kind of situation starts, and practice the "leave it" command as Jenn suggested. We know that Remy is going to chase the cat, so we try to stop the behaviour before it even starts, which is working really well. We can also control contact between them, to show Remy he has to be/play nice to/with the cat. He's really getting the hang of it, when George suddenly appears and we don't have Remy on the leash he's resists the urge to charge, and it's only been two days. I hope that helps! Good luck!
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Ice Blue.. I will have to try that hopefully it will work. Are husky was terirble with cats allways played with them till the death, untill she was two then she loved the cats and never hurt them
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My dogs, Sadie and Riley, chase one of my cats-Bevo (pronounced Bee-vo, named after UT's mascot because he's the darkest orange cat my ex-bf and I had ever seen). Thomas and Turbo, the other two cats, are the most dominant animals in my house, with Thomas being alpha, then comes Riley, Sadie, and poor Bevo. (For those of you that remember Thomas' cancer story, he's still hanging on and doing just fine. We've been very lucky. :))
Thomas pretty much gets his way all the time. Here's a picture of him eating dog food with Sadie (out of Riley's giant bowl-Riley had claimed Sadie's bowl). He popped her shortly after the picture was taken... I guess for taking up too much space, so I had to take a handful of food out for him and move the bowl for Sadie. LOL Obviously, he has me trained, too. He often prefers to sleep in my bedroom on the bed with the dogs while I'm away, while the other two cats sleep on the couch or dining room chairs. He also likes to claim Riley's giant dog bed at night, and he likes to walk as slowly as he can down the hall when the dogs are behind him, b/c he knows they won't pass him. He will saunter down the hall, fluffing his tail, stopping to stretch, just so that they can't move any faster. He's a character.
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I forgot to mention that you can also teach a gentle command for Zeus when he's playing with the cat. You are wanting the play to decrease in intensity. My Rott/Shepherd boy was great with the gentle command for playing with small dogs and the cats.