Somewhat timely to see this post. We are three days into training a 9 month old German Shepard rescue mix (not sure what they other breed is) who was obviously never trained to understand how to play with humans or what is a dog toy vs. something valuable. He is absolutely fascinated by our cats, but they are not too keen on him, even though they are used to our other two dogs. He wants to play with them like he would play with a dog. They, of course, are having nothing to do with that. After a few good whacks from their paws he now just looks at them and wags his tail and barks a bit, but gives them a pretty wide berth. This is one of the smartest dogs I've seen. In three days of training he is almost cured of playing with humans like other dogs. The cats are even slowly getting used to him. With luck we can have him trained well enough to adopt out in a couple of weeks if we find the right home. Too many people like the looks of a German Shepard, but have no clue about how to work with them.

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