Date:   10/26/2006 9:09:19 AM ( 18 y ago)
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Hello critterkids,

If you are staying at home all day, then I suggest the following: whenever you see your dog trying to snap at your cat who doesn't like to be bullied, start making sounds of being hurt like crying, or saying like awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, and more importantly put a lot of emotion of being hurt in those sounds to relay that to your male dog. During these moments, if you don't see your dog stopping dead in the tracks, then another approach is needed, just use a command like 'stop' but with your whole being try to convey your displeasure emotion in that word toward your male dog, to see if he reacts or not. This is to establish the proper boundaries, so that your male dog has to know if he crosses the line. You have to keep doing that all the time till your dog gets the hint.
For the techniques I explained, you can try to find the book called 'The Language of Animals: 7 Steps to Communicating with Animals' by Carol Gurney.
These techniques are quite useful that it doesn't harm your pets at all, but it gives a very clear message since the pets are interacting on emotional level.

My observation for your dog is that he was taken from his mother too soon while the socialization skills that he was learning from his mother isn't finished. So that might explain for the bullish behaviour.

Ynaig
 

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