Corgi problem with cat, help?

I've starred this for friends with Corgis as maybe they can help you more than I can.

Your best bet if the water bottle isn't working is an E-Collar. Hitting them will provoke an attack and I wouldn't want a corgi on the end of my arm, yikes. The collar doesn't Hurt the dog but it will cause an unpleasant feeling which they will associate with terrorising the cat.

Hopefully they will ultimately settle down - it may take some time but these things do happen. For some reason cats and dogs don't get on sometimes, it is a great mystery.

All the best, good luck with your cat and your corgis!

I don't find the water bottle thing very helpful. Especially when you have prey drive to deal with. The breed of dog does not make that much difference. Any prey driven dog will do the same thing.

I have a couple of suggestions. You need 2 people. Have one person hold the cat on the floor, you have the dogs leashed and just before they start to act out you give an assertive tug on the leash followed up by a command. I wouldn't use 'no'. Maybe a 'leave it' or

'back off'. Make the command firm and deep. You also need to teach sit/stay. Big help when doing this.

The other thing I find useful for getting my dogs attention is a rolled up magazine secured by a rubberband. I slap it hard against a wall, counter etc.......gets their attention fast. Then I follow up with a command.

Try it. May work.

I don't know if you have a way to, but if you can catch them in the act, is there anyways for you to lock them in small area or crate after chasing the cat?

With ours we'd catch them in the act, tell them No! and lock them up for about 5-10min (you must ignore them for this time out period)

Also make sure no one in the house is encouraging this behavior. Even a simple chuckle is all they need to hear from their masters telling them what they are doing is A-okay!

Hopefully you can get everyone living in harmony! :)

Side note, Corgi's (as you can see) love chasing and that is something bred into them, so there are somethings that just maynot be able to be stopped w/o removal from the situation.

I volunteer with Corgi Breed Rescue and foster Corgis. A Corgi who doesn't like cats is REALLY hard to retrain. I fostered one little male who hated my elderly cat. He would still be living with me if I had been able to break him of it.

I am going to strongly recommend a professional trainer sooner rather than later. The prey drive is heard to break. If your cat would beat up the dogs they might behave better. My very small cat (before she died) beat up both my own Corgis when they arrived. (they still have scars to prove it) Short black & white one is boss - and don't you forget it. They both treated her with cautious respect after that. She died before the foster arrived. My other cat is too easy going.

Here is a link to the best trainers. Please contact one near you. I hope this works. At least the puppy is probably trainable, and hopefully the older dog too.

http://www.nadoi.org/

One thing about Corgis, and Border Collies apparently… they are like cats…(don’t tell them I said that… it’s a “dirty word” to a lot of dogs). They play just like them, though. One of Dott’s favorite things to do is to chase the “fishing pole” type toy that my son made for her. It used to be a long buggy whip and he flicks the long end around and she chases it and sometimes even turns flips trying to follow it and grab it.

I mentioned, the other day, that they all love to chase the “little red bug” (my son’s laser light). In fact, you have to be very careful not to start a fight with that thing, because Sadie, Dott AND B.G. will all start chasing it and then bang into each other, which can cause a fight. It’s a lot like little kids that start playing roughly with each other, and then one gets hurt and they start fighting.

Sadie caught a mouse outside while I was feeding the horses the other day, and she was slapping it back and forth and tossing it in the air exactly like a cat would do. Dott and B.G. do the same thing with a lot of their toys, and it’s hysterical just to watch them.

Ok… so I take pleasure in some of the simple things in life, but letting God take care of my cares, and taking time to smell the roses or watch the Corgis play, makes life so much more satisfying than stressing about things that “may” happen, or things that I can’t do anything about anyway.

That is what is so wonderful about Corgi Country. It is a haven away from traffic, noise, and other sources of stress. I can always turn off the TV and listen to music or even just listen to the birds sing, or the horses munch on their hay. Doing what the Bible says in Matthew 6:34 has become my main philosophy of life I think… At least since I’ve tried to follow it this past year, it has worked for me! Essentially, it says to take one day at a time and don’t worry about tomorrow.

After all, we don’t even know if we will be here tomorrow (freak car accident, stray bullet, meteor coming through the ceiling, etc.). If you’ve taken care of the important things between yourself and God, then THAT isn’t a problem, so just do what you need to do each day, to keep things in running order.

Be careful not to add the world’s problems to your shoulders by feeding your brain depressing stuff you can’t do a thing about anyway… that doesn’t mean not to do your part, like voting intelligently according to your principles, but so many times we sit there and watch T.V. shows that just put junk into our heads. Computer people say, “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” when talking about programming a computer and some of those principles apply to what we allow to go into our brain.

I guess it's a big help to find time to discover more about this very affectionate breed. You can check this cool site for more info,

http://dogtime.com/pembroke-welsh-corgi.html

introduce them slowly with supervision