Depends on the dog for sure. If you know him well enough to think it won't be a problem, it likely won't. I still wouldn't trust him off leash around one though.
Jackson has veryyy high prey drive. He has killed a rabbit in front of me before. Yikes!
My little sister has guinea pigs and hamsters and he would 100% kill them if got the chance. We keep them in totally separate rooms.
Oddly enough, the guinea pigs don't seem too intimidated by him. I think they know they are safe in their cage and also have hiding spaces of course but they have actually come up to the cage to sniff the dogs (I'm typically holding Jackson back or he's on a leash) even when he is in full stalker mode (tense body, hard stare, etc).
I wouldn't choose to own the two different types of animals together on my own. But we make do and it's easy to separate. As long as they out of his sight, they are out of mind. |