How can I prevent my dogs from becoming aggressive towards cats?

You can't fight mother nature.

Don't leave that dog unsupervised with your cats.

It's unlikely the pup will develop that behaviour as he already has a good relationship with the cats. Behaviours are learned when a dog is young ; this is what we call socialization .

You can't really make dogs like cats and make cats like dogs. How about trying to hold the cat and have someone hold on to the dog pet them both and have them close together but control the so nothing happens. If you treat them the same then they might be convinced they are loved equally and the dog might not be so aggressive. Maybe even try to have the cat food some where other then the kitchen. or separate there food places. I don't know why the dog is not so good around cats but this might help. Also when you leave the house put the dog outside and the cats inside or something to keep them apart. Hope I helped =)

i have this problem to i have a cat a lab and a tiny chihuahua...

not to much good of a mix the lab hates the cat

the lab will kill the chihuahua if its bothering him...

what i do is i say no!!! bad boy no whats this huh?!?!? what this no!!!!!!

it works for my dog for a certain period of time

but dicipline is good and when your dog does somehting reward him with love

its important because animals have feelings to..

i do suggest going to your local humane society or aniaml shelter and ask about thiss..

and what kind of food does ur dog eat? food may be a key factor on how the animal feels

You will have do introduce training with a 5 years old dog and your kittens. as your kittens are only 6 months, they kinda of too little to defend themself, they are still babies.

I had problem with introducing my 3 years old border collie when I bought 2 months old kitten. I kept my kitten in bathroom, and dog in kitchen over night, but one pet in a room with me at time and swap over so they get used the smells of their beds, toys then I have put baby safety gate on door and I put leash on my dog and allow my kitten to come in expolor the kitchen I tried to get my dog to sit quietly and lie down it seem to be impossibly to keep my dog calm down, she had high prey drive too. I was being firm with my dog telling her NO! when she tries to run to my kitten, my kitten hissed and ran away. It took me about 3 months to finally got them friends but still watched them never leave them out of my sights, when my dog is more settled down, my kitten was bouncy and attacks my dog's bum it sets my dog off she was chasing after my kitten as long as my kitten had somewhere to hide that where my dog can't reach. My dog finally leave my kitten well alone just after she had scratch on her nose by my kitten. NOW they are best friends!

Yeah it was really HARDESTintroducing training ever I have done but worth it!.

Maybe you try do this. Just keep 5 years old dog on leash till you feel ready better when kitten is abit older and old enough to defend for themselves

You can teach the dog to "leave it". You can find a lot of good, free training advice of this sort online. Just do a yahoo search.

try to associate cats with good things like treats and attention. You may need to get something like a shock collar or prong collar to snap him out of his fixation on the cats

lol to pauld , its natural, dogs are higher up in the food chain, i would dread to think what my dobe would do if she got a cat! dont worry!!

get a Bengal Tiger

sorry to here that