I have a 13 week Australian Labradoodle. He scored all 4s and 5s on his volhard and the trainer that tested him labeled him a 3 out of 10 energy level. This has absolutely been exactly what we have seen over the past 4 weeks. He is calm and sweet and has no prey drive at all.
But he does like to sniff the cat. He won't chase him, pounce on him or really do anything of consequence to him at all, BUT the cat hates his space being invaded. Our trainer suggested just letting the pack dynamics play itself out, but I really don't like that idea because if the cat is having to defend his personal space, then it's stressing him out and I don't want to do that to the cat.
I've seen how to teach the "leave it" it command for food, but I'm not sure how I would go about teaching him that the cat doesn't want to be his friend…
Has anyone ever had a permanent "leave the cat alone" training plan. I know it's not an overnight fix, and really the problem is fairly small, these interactions are happening maybe once a day, but I don't like the cat having to be stressed out like that, he's not a hissy or swatty cat, so I don't want him to have to hiss and SWAT because he feels like somebody's all up in his business.
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