Our flatmate has a cat and we keep them separated. Mostly the cat is either outside or in the flatmate's room unless Max is in his crate.

The times when the cat decides to come in when Max is out of his crate we send Max to his mat while we put the cat away. It's been so consistent that Max will now go to his mat by himself when he sees the cat. He still wants to sniff her and lick her but will go to his mat and stay there instead.

Practice and consistency was the key to this. They still can't hang out in the same room but at least we have the time and space to deal with the meetings when they happen.

Thank You all so much for your input!
I have both videos marer training and training with food..
I will be working the "Leave it" for both the dog and cat.
The cat like to sit in front of the dog and growl and hiss so he also needs to learn not to do that!
I really appreciate all the help!!!

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Hello Niomi,

How do you teach the "leave it command" I'm doing marker training, but there are no instructions on the video on how to train this command. I really wish they would come out with a video showing the "how to steps for each command" some of us don't have our own ideas which is why we pay others lol lol Thanks for any help as I'm having a hard time figuring out how to teach "leave it" or "yuk" and not just for cats, but for his lead, and stones... Thanks...

It's probably a little late to add my 2 cents. My puppy is going to be 14 wks tomorrow. I have 3 cats, and one of them is a kitten. I feel I lucked out with this kitten because we got him last July and he was tiny so I could train him proper without background abuse issues. He has always LOVED Leerburg video's (I thought of sending in a video clipping to Mr. Frawley but I'm sure he has better things to do with his time lol), anyway when I watch all my DVD's or tapes this cat will sit there by the TV and he won't move, yes, for the full length of the tapes. My husband says the tapes are boring, I love them, and he jokes and say's (because I make him watch them to keep us on the same page) he grumbles but does it, but after it's over he says the only one that had any fun was the cat. He litterly will not move until I shut the tape off. He loves to watch the dogs (Strange but true, if he hears Mr. Frawley's voice he runs into the room and sits in front of the TV, is the darnest things). Anyway, I figured he would like the puppy (wow, I was right), he loves the puppy but I'm still following all of Mr. Frawley's advice, I keep the puppy tethered to me at all times, on average about 20 hours a day (or crate) and I locked my two older cats up for the first 4 wks of having the puppy in our home. The only cat allowed to wander free was the kitten, I did this to teach the puppy there was a cat in the house, and I have taught him to not chase the cat. Sometimes I hold the kitten and the puppy licks him, they both like each other but I wont' let them alone together. Over the last week or so I let the two bigger cats out, I did so with the thought that they would see the kitten and him getting along, and maybe relax more. It seemed to work. Though I ALWAYS lock the cats up at night in their own room so no mistakes happen, I'm making slow progress. I won't trust them together for months and months, but Mr. Frawley states this very clearly on his video that this is not an over night job, it's months of work. So, if I keep taking baby steps I'm hoping it will work out. The cats are not hissing, but once the male cat did I scolded him and locked him back up and when I let him back out he stayed away from the puppy. This next year is going to be so much work, but in the end I'm hoping all my efforts will pay off.

I watched a good video on this site (or podcast?) about teaching the 'leave it' command with a clicker. It was really good and easy to follow the steps. I can't seem to find it again -- maybe someone else has the link?

Maybe this will help...

http://leerburg.com/podcasts/markertrainingdogs.mp3

It's also available as a podcast

I have the Your Puppy 8 Weeks to 8 Months DVD. It shows marker training for the Yuk command.