 Hey, hey, hey Stacks, see that's the cat door. He ripped out. That's a new one. We just got about a week ago Stacks, I can't take that prey drive out of him But I can certainly give you the fundamental Obedience to manage the situation. All right, so now you're gonna work on the final which is to leave it leave it Good Hello everybody and welcome back to the coolest dog training channel right here on YouTube. I'm Tom Davis America's canine educator. Thank you so much for joining me here today Today we have a case that we hear about a lot. We have a dog that is chasing a cat It's a new addition to the family and obviously it's creating a ton of stress within the household So as you guys know, I've done a lot of these cat and dog integrations And we've been really successful in the past and I'm hoping we can do that here today As you know, we don't have a ton of cats running around the upstate canine Academy So we're doing it in home. We're about to go in and meet the dog and the owners and see what we can do for them Hello I'm Tom Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Thanks for coming. Yeah, no problem. All right. We have a challenge here Yeah, I heard so let's see what we can do. Let's get the let's go have a seat actually and we'll talk about what's going on So we've had stacks for a couple of weeks. He was in a Shelter for and he's he's about a year old Great dog. We love him. He said it's he's been a handful But when it comes to the cat because we've had Tony the cat for a while now How old Tony Tony's probably about seven years old eight years old. I'll see we've had him for a while he knows the house he's comfortable in the house and He pretty much ran the house Until we brought stacks home perfect and yeah, it was it was difficult from the beginning because I guess because of how he just sees Tony as a prey and No matter what we do no matter how we interact with the dog. There is just no way stacks will will just Feel comfortable around so does he what does he do? Does he like chase him? Chases him and he chases him with a lot of vengeance with that with with this with this ire that he just wants to I don't think he would because he has cornered him a couple of times Yeah, or once actually that you know, he kind of got a little out of hand and he didn't Go after him and try to kill him He's think it's a game I'm hoping it was a game and I hope it is a game But it's it's gotten to the point where it's a bit scary because we just don't want anything to happen We're trying to get the two of them to you know cooperate and What's your house in peace? Okay, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, see that's the cat door ripped out. That's a new one. We just got about a week ago Stacks, so I always like to tell people in the integration process like in your case You're bringing in an adult dog to the house now if you have a puppy This is a little different because puppies really can't do a lot of damage They might chase the cat around and might be cute, but they typically in experiences like this They typically grow up like my dogs. They're all a hundred pounds or more Once they grow up with the animal together then they really just have a playful relationship when you integrate a new dog That's maybe a year or older or six months or older. You have to make sure that it's safe for the cat So making sure that you're integrating with safety precautions So some of those things will include like baby gates and in your case your dog is big enough where baby gates not gonna work He'll jump right over that thing blow right through if you have a smaller dog You can use a baby gate and what that does is it kind of like it's like when you put a new fish into a fish tank It takes 24 hours for them to integrate into that tank and get used to the water if you will So that helps a lot with the integration process. It keeps them safe It keeps the cat feeling a little safe. They're not being chased if your cat can jump up on things That's a little different to that provides them a little bit of safety But you got to make sure that if you are getting an adult dog, especially for you guys at home You hit you need to make sure that when you are bringing an adult dog in that you have those safety precautions in place And what I'm gonna do too is I'm gonna throw up what an x-pen is in the in the corner here on the screen Because an x-pen is basically like some people use them for puppy raising where it's like a it's like a really big Playpen for a baby, but you can get them up to four feet and I'll link a description below You guys can see what that looks like on Amazon or something But what that does is it also allows your dog to be in an area that the cat is also associated with so It's not great for bigger dogs because it is a small area But if your cat is really comfortable with being in spaces that are smaller as well You can put your cat in there and just kind of integrate them that way that way It's a really safe bet and you don't have to worry and stress so much that nothing's gonna happen to the cat So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna we're gonna grab stacks we're gonna get them in here and I'm gonna go over some of these really key fundamental principles of Obedience that really helps with this and I think the most important thing for you as a dog owners to realize that We can't tell a fish not to swim and in this case It means like I can't take that prey drive out of him But I can certainly give you the fundamental Obedience to manage the situation to say like hey, buddy I know what you want to do But I have to teach you these things and right now it doesn't sound like you guys have any structure Like within what you're doing. He's kind of running the roost. Yeah He is like I said if we don't take certain precautions, it's right turn into a yeah So the obedience portion is not only gonna help you guys with Managing this dog cat situation and helping them integrate But it's also gonna be an outstanding way for you guys to get to know each other and and it's great Obedience anyway I mean everybody should have the control and and what you'll see also too is this will transfer to your life You have friends over you have family over it is cute when a dog comes up and says hey I love you, but it's not gonna be cute when they're jumping and they're barking. They're overstimulated They're they're darting out the door You really want to make sure that everything that you do with your dog is structured in that way You want them to be a dog be funny and cute But when you say hey, buddy, I need a little bit of focus here You need to be able to do that so these exercises are going to be crucial across the board not only for the dog In the cat situation, but just across the board with your relationship with the dog Sit Stacks come So the three things I like to teach dogs for this type of stuff is very basic the place command The recall which is the come command and then they'll leave it command So the place command is basically a targeted area like this bed here that we have set up So it could be a bed It could be a cot anything other than the ground and what we want to be able to do is say Hey dog go there because what that does is it initially takes away and decompresses that pressure of him going like where's the cat So if you say again like we talked about before I know what you want to do your dog You have a prey drive, but here's what I want you to do and it'll decompress that prey drive So what the recall does is exactly how it sounds so when he's out searching for the cat and Tony's kind of running away And hiding you can recall him to you which will then allow you to also decompress that hunt drive that prey drive Basically break the attention of him constantly frantically looking for the cat So last but not least will be the leave it command the leave it command is going to be universally used for pretty much Anything you do not want him engaged in that's going to come at the very end when we bring Tony out Hopefully we can get him out of his his his his scared place And we can then say hey stacks leave it and then for him to disengage off of Tony to redirect his attention Alright, so this is Tony. So we're gonna really practice the leave it command. So you got to remember Tony is in your hands I have the ball please good Good, please. All right now you're gonna let him out All right guys. It's time for the final moment where we're actually gonna get Tony the cat out and we're gonna do you think He's ready. Yeah, I think he's ready I think that you guys worked really hard, and I think that you don't think he's ready You got it listen you got to trust trust the process if you think he's ready. I think he's right. I've worked hard on it I think he's ready. I'm ready. I think he's ready. So as I was saying we're gonna get Tony the cat out I'm gonna try this out for real all right So now what you're gonna do is now we got the cat out what I need you to do is you're gonna This is already better. Yeah, you're gonna call him backwards and you're gonna tell him to place So recall walk backwards place good Down stay place good place stay stay All right, so now you're gonna work on the final which is to leave it leave it Leave it Good. All right Fred. So now you're gonna recall him to you stacks come Good now send him to his place sex place Good place good. So now what I want you to do is Leave it Okay now Christine why don't you just get up and just walk that way and he's gonna follow Christine and the cat Tell him to leave it leave it good. Let him out a little bit Let him out a little bit break break good stop. Nope Gotta let him out. So we got to do a recall. Okay, so we'll do it again. So put him back stacks place So you let him out have him here and we're gonna do that whole process again. Okay stacks break. Good. Let him go Hold recall him that come good come that place good Wonderful so see how nice that is Yeah, so it's a little better than getting dragged to the cat door every time hey hey hey Stacks so those three things with the hey come back to me because I know you're interested And then giving him a job of like this is where I want you to be because Tony's got to live his life, too Yeah, and then you telling him to leave it to disengage him to say like okay I won't go will really really help you guys in the future and then again What it does is it allows him to actually start associating Tony with like hey Maybe this isn't so bad and then eventually the goal is for them to co-exist And if not you have the ability to manage this as long as you want to and it's really easy with that obedience the whole quality of life is gonna be different in this house with Tony being able to you know walk around right do what he has to do and Having him under control so you're not like you're not completely out of the woods yet There's still a lot of work that you need to do but now you're in a situation You have the tools to manage it and you're gonna be a lot more successful now instead of just having him run around and be a Shepherd now he's gonna be a shepherd with structure and control. I can see it I can see it. I can see we have the tools. There's no doubt about it. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome Thank you guys so very much for joining me here today on my channel Don't forget like this video subscribe to my channel and leave a comment down below and let me know what you guys thought of this video Peace