It has been one week since the incident with Quincy and the kitten. I have been working on training him with positive methods since that day. I am happy to report that now, he will walk with me leashless out to the back pasture and not even look at the cats in the yard. This morning, I was playing fetch with him and I threw the ball into the weeds flushing out Samson our big black barn cat. Sam broke through the weeds ran for the barn and Quincy didn’t even look like he wanted to give chase! He just looked at me like “Mom throw the ball already!”

My thanks to those of you who believed in me not throwing this wonderful dog away. For your links to other training methods which worked like a charm instead of following Cesar’s Way I thank you for that as well. My arm aches from playing “Tug” but it has paid off and it will continue to be the way I redirect his prey drive into a play drive.

This evening was the final confirmation that keeping Quincy was the right thing to do. I was feeding at the feeders and my back was to Quincy as he was lying in the yard behind me. When I turned around again, two cats had joined him in their snooze! His eyes opened a minute to see his new bed buddies, then he closed them again to catch some more Z’s NOT to catch a cat!