How to stop puppy chasing the kittens?

[Citygirlrurallife]

Our GR puppy is 10months old and we rescued our pair of kitten who are 9months old, about 3 months ago.

introductions went well, they all get along fine BUT in the last week teen hormones in our puppy have kicked in and manifest in chasing anything that moves fast and has started chasing the kittens.

obviously we’re working hard on recall but with the kittens he’s usually inside or in our small garden. What intensive training can we do to discourage him specifically chasing our cats? Just worried it will cause them (especially the male who hates it - the female actively encourages puppy to play and chase 🙄) to start being anxious and in my experience anxious cats start peeing on soft furnishings! And leaving and not coming back…..

the initial introductions worked because we made him lie down and just fed a million treats a they explored around him and we gradually
introduced them for more time. He just REALLY wants to play with them - the chasing def isn’t any kind of aggressive instinct….

He needs to be on a lead or long-line around the cats so he can't physically chase them.

Don't leave them alone together either.

No advice but puppy and kittens ! I'm glad I'm not you . I have my hands full with just a puppy . I hope you work it out .

Separate them. Our 8 month old pup and 14 ish year old cat are separated if we can’t sit on pup and stop her trying to play with him. He’s dog savvy and laid back but it’s not his job to police and train her. It’s ours. Things are improving very slowly.

We are able to separate them when he gets too much and have been doing so, but just wondering if there are other techniques in the meantime we can be using….kittens have full run of the house and lots of high places they can get to whereas puppy is contained to downstairs

You can use engage disengage training - that is what we are doing with ours. It's also called Look at That! and click the trigger. We've found it very effective for making us more rewarding than the cat. I do think to an extent it's time with puppies. I have trained older dogs who want to chase and it's much quicker but pups just need to grow up. Kittens are a lot more exciting than older cats too as they move more quickly and are unpredictable!

Thankyou - yeah I reckon it’s part and parcel of him being a puppy and the female kitten def encourages play which doesn’t help!!

Not cats but chickens/ducks for us. I took GR on the long line in the garden, when he showed interest in them I asked him to leave it and rewarded his engagement with me. He learnt (surprisingly quickly!) that the steadier he was around them the closer he could get and he really just wanted to smell them. He is nearly 2 and has been able to free range with them for a year or so now. The chickens often get in a flap and run around and he completely ignores them despite the fact he has a high prey drive .