As the last poster mentioned, dog are natural born hunters, some have stronger prey drives than others, I have greyhounds who are former racers, and one has a very high prey drive they were gradually introduced to my cats which I adopted later and corrected if they tried to chase them, praised when they acted appropriately, they needed constant socialization and supervised contact with the cats to the point where they now view the cats as dogs and accepted them as part of their pack. If one of the dogs had not been able to accept the cat, I would have been forced to make a decision either to return the newly adopted cat or keep them permanently seperated, Outdoors the dogs do not view a stray cat as the same, they view it the same as any rabbit or squirrel, simply put as prey. I could never do the same with a bird as the interactions between the species are no where near the same, plus the movements are totally different. When my ferret was still alive, he was kept in his cage, only one of my dogs with a low prey drive was allowed to be near him and even then it was under strict supervision. I hope you understand that what your dog did was not out of any form of aggression but out of instinct, he is exactly the same dog as he was the day before this happened.
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Originally Posted by Saphira and Snuggs
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