Can a dog with prey drive live with a cat?

Jan 10

Dogs are predators who often see cats as prey. How can we help them leave peacefully together? What is prey drive anyway?

There's all of this and so much more in this chat with Simone Mueller, a trainer and behavior consultant who literally wrote the book on predation in dogs (and how to address it).

We talk about:

why (and how) her method of training dogs who chase cats is different than mine
how to train FOR the situation, and not IN the situation (sort of)
how to identify whether your dog wants to eat your cat or play with them (and why it might not even matter)!

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This episode’s guest: Simone Mueller

Simone Mueller is a certified dog trainer and dog behaviour consultant (ATN.AG) from Germany who I specializes in force–free anti–predation training, called Predation Substitute Training (PST). She has created several online-courses on this topic, and is also the author of the three books “Hunting Together”, “Rocket Recall” and “Don’t Eat That!”.

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