Can a behaviourist deal with this?

[saffronwblue]

We have a very bouncy border collie Lab cross who at 3 years old is still quite mad challenging. Despite lots of walks, training and attention she still jumps up on visitors and barks loudly at birds in the garden for hours. More urgently, we have for several months housed my m-i-l's two cats. We decided to start off keeping them separately and they have basically their own room with access to the front garden while Ddog has access to the back garden. If their paths ever cross she chases them really fiercely. We have vaguely talked about how to integrate them and it has just been too hard.
Now we have an exchange student coming for 10 weeks. The most obvious room for her to have is the sitting room which is the cats' base.
Is it realistic that a behaviourist could stop Ddog from terrorising the cats? Would it be better to spend money on boarding the cats or somehow setting up another room?
One more thing- I am in Melbourne and every behaviourist I have found here talks about pack theory somewhere on their website.

[Lilcamper]

You can search this website for a suitable professional near you PPG

[Booboostoo]

Always worth trying if you can get hold of someone reputable.

I have a similar problem and this is what my dog trainer did, however, (big disclaimer!!!), I am not suggesting you do this on your own or that it will work - this is something my trainer did with the dog and cat having assessed the situation and supervised how it should be done. Also he did say that this technique has a 50% success rate.

My friend held the cat (who was really sensible about it all but I can imagine some cats going bonkers, so be careful!), my trainer held the dog, he approached dog to the cat so the dog could sniff the cat's bottom, he kept control of the dog's mouth/body (so she couldn't bite the cat) and rewarded the dog for sniffing. He did this 3/4 times. Then he encouraged the cat to sniff the dog's ear.

We don't know if this worked as the cat has kept out of the way since, but fingers crossed!