On 8 Mar 2005 05:47:11 -0800, "The Bill Mattocks"
wrote:

If I try to physically
correct the female, the male comes to her rescue - or thinks it is
playtime and jumps up on my licking my face, etc. I've tried pushing
her back to her food bowl and him back to his, but they both enjoy this
and think I'm doing some new daddy dance. Makes 'em all waggly.

Crates or tethering would stop this.


I don't have a problem correcting either of them - when she has on
occasion cornered the cat or is in the process of doing some other
awful thing, I go grab her up by the scruff, give her the smack on the
bottom, and scold her in a loud deep voice that has her groveling and
apologizing in seconds, and her behavior has been improving on things
like that.


Stop smacking her on her bottom - it makes no sense. Leave leashes on
the dogs so you can give a more timely and effective correction for
cat chasing. Start using management and teaching the behavior you
DO want, more than correcting behavior that's already happening.
Strong leadership (which doesn't involve hitting or even correction
necessarily) means that dogs don't even try this level of
obnoxiousness, or not more than once.

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Janet B
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