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Originally Posted by J.D.DIAMOND
Juniper did your German Shepherd grow up with cats? I have been doing a lot of homework(research)on German Shepherds and so far everybody has told me that they do have an instinct to chase stray cats,but not the cats they grew up with as a puppie if they are trained correctly.
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Nope. As I said, we got him at age 4, and his previous owners didn't have cats.
He has killed at least two, maybe three stray cats in our yard. But I'm sure he was only fulfilling his role of protector, and the cats were after our chickens. It's a big fenced yard - those cats shoulda known better!
He isn't so tough with the cats inside our house, though. We have 5 of them. Every now and then he acts a little bit - what's the word, *offended* by their presence. But he's accepted them, for the most part and leaves them be. But our cats stay inside, and I have no doubt that if they were to get out into the yard, he'd chase them just the same as the strays. I think this is due more to the prey instinct being triggered by a cat running away, something they can't really do in the house so much.