karlin said:
I've never been able to try them around other animals really; though they got chased by the resident goose up at ASH Animal Rescue in Wicklow! :lol:
:lol: :lol: I can just imagine Jasper and Leo running with their ears flapping!
Actually geese and swans can be quite agressive and nasty. Rupert used to chase birds on the beach, until one Eider duck stood up, flapped her wings at him and made it very clear that she wasn't standing THAT nonsense :lol: Poor Rupert turned tail and ran back to us, and he's never chased a bird since!!!
Teddy is dreadful at chasing birds, they were allowed to do that, so we are trying to retrain him. He's not caught anything, and I'm not sure that he will.
Peaches chases everything but we've managed to retrain her a bit to leave the birds alone.
Rupert will only chase bunnies etc if one of the others is with him, on his own he just stops and watches them
{there are a lot of wild rabbits here who often run out in front of us whilst out walking} I used to take him to the pet shop as a pup, they had a huge bunny who used to hop around the shop, and Rupert was friends with him!
Fillipa, Rupert and Peaches did once catch a bunny, but let it go when it squealed! It ran and they caught it a 2nd time, and let it go again!! They have never killed anything - I think some Cavaliers do kill fledgling birds and small mammals - but they will eat anything dead they find icon_yikes
We don't really have much contact with cats, but I think they would chase if the cat ran.
I think if you introduce carefully, and especially one dog at a time, you are usually ok, but allow the other animal to have an escape route, and supervise until you're 100% sure.
We are hoping to have hens later in the year, but they are more than capable of standing their ground even against terriers. I will introduce them carefully, and they will only be allowed out when we're there.
Just remembered, one time when we only had Rupert and Fillipa, we heard Rupert in the garden barking his "come and see" bark. We went out, and he was standing next to a stunned Robin which had flown into a window. Neither of them touched it, just let us know it was there. {We took the Robin indoors, kept it overnight in a dark box, and it recovered by the morning} I was very proud of them, if they hadn't let us know,, one of the local cats would probably have had the RObin.