Do they grow out of it?

My 10 week cavie is a nightmare chasing my 3. The cats arent scared, and she wont hurt them, but she is doing it more and more and is quite noisy too.

Thanks

they'll only grow out of it if you train them not to do it. Proably the best thing one of your cats could do is to whack your pup across the nose whilst it is still young enough to be startled by it- let the cat get the upper hand over the dog and things should work out fine. Get dog gates to deter your pup from chasing and use a strong 'no' command when he or she tries to chase. Try to spend time with both cat(s) and dog sitting together, get them used to being together. Our daft dobe has seen a number of cats introduced into our household over the past 4 years- and curently we have 3 4wk old kittens in our living room. I'm cautious enough to realise she can still be giddy with cats and still have the dog gates to the living room and the attic, so if she does decide to go nuts, she cant get to them. She is fine with my lot (but still a bit daft with Ashia our silve norwegian forest cat - and Charlie the red and white one- but we used to have a silver rabbit when we first got Ailsa and she never really took to that- so she sees a falsh of silver and we think she thinks its a rabbit, hence the dog gates to slow her down.

Thats the thing-she tries to play nicely with them until they scuff her, thats when she goes a bit crazy and starts barking at them.

I have the opposite with mine, the cats are afraid so they run and the dog chases (naturally).
She never grew out of it because the cats encouraged it, albeit unwittingly.

I'd try distracting her and teaching her that when she sees the cat she does something else so the cat becomes a cue to sit down or something. You can use aversives but you have the worry that the pup will associate the cat with the aversive, not her behaviour and then she'll really not like the cats.

You've had great advice from Katkin and at least your cats aren't afraid so they'll help you train her to a degree by not reinforcing the pup's behaviour. My cats make training very hard because they reinforce Takara's behaviour as she thinks they're playing!

My mum's dog, when she was a newbie, chased the cats once. She never did it again and it took forever to stop her nose from bleeding.

Unfortunately puppies dont react the same way as an adult dog.
From experience many years ago, I nearly lost my cat to a puppy. Firstly never leave them together as a pups over exuberance and lack of experience can mean a life of torture for your cats as some pups just dont get the message and back off when a cat gives them what for, they can see it as a game. You will need to do some work with the pup and make sure you train him to leave the cats alone.

Puppies will learn to know the meaning of the word 'no' when you use it enough and mean it. Rewards for doing the right thing are one thing, but understanding that 'no' means stopping what you're doing is a great thing.

Maybe a clicker so that Pippa gets to know when she's doing something right?

We're trying to get our daft dobe used to the 3 tiny kittens our Ashia reently produced - we are extremely wary because she is a huge lumbering dobermutt who is prone to giddy spells when she hears tiny mewling things and particularly now that they are running around.

We take no chances- she could easily hurt one - and unfortunately, we can't call them 'kittens' either, because Ailsa has a motely collection of orange acrylic stuffed cats which all meow and we have always called them her kittens, so for obvious reasons, don't want her to associate the real thing with something she chews...We call them 'babies' instead ,and we're carefully getting her to understand that she has to be 'gentle' with the 'babies', otherwise they'll end up with 'poorlies'.