Agree.. In fact I could have strangled the 3 cats out side my drive this morning myself.. ohh wait sounded like someone already was
Dogs are expected to make no step out of line, and god for bid they do.. Cats well they live as they please.

Actually, I don't think it's acceptable at all and take reasonable measures to ensure my dog doesn't do it again. I can get him to accept individual animals if I spend a long time working on it but it doesn't generalise to the strange cat, rabbit, rat, bird or whatever that he meets on a walk. He's muzzled when off leash in the one secure area he can be let off in, he's not out in the garden alone and I check for small furry (or prickly) creatures before letting him out there.

LOL - how is that then?

I love how those who are making negative comments on cats don't actually own cats and have dogs that are 'would be' cat killers.

And good for them - I want to come back as a cat in the next life! they are nothing like dogs and can't be compared in any way, shape or form. When was the last time a cat killed a person or a dog?

Couldnt tell you - although my cats have caused more damage to me than my dogs would ever do...

cat scratch fever...fatal if not treated promptly.

We have two cats who regularly come into our garden, which is surrounded by a six foot brick wall. They come in via the garage roof, and it is not easy for them to escape........yet they persist. Jimmi has chased them endlessly, sometimes he is within an inch of their tails. Still they come in. You ask why I say that they ask to be attacked? Because they know that there is a cat hater in this garden and yet they STILL wander around it.

They are not 'asking' to be attacked...they are cats and cats roam. Not all cats are afraid of dogs. Your garden could be part of the cats perceived territory. Don't assume the cats 'know' they are risking getting attacked by your dog...they don't know!

i would say it did(after the first time)....but doesn't care

i dont think anything 'asks' to be attacked.

Okay........no animal is asking to be attacked, that was poor phraseology. However, you have just said that our garden could be part of the cats perceived territory........that may be so, but it is NOT their territory, it is my dog's territory. I was assuming that the cats know they will risk attack from our dog because it has happened umpteen times. On one occasion recently the cat ended up at the top of a tree, with our dog half way up the same tree! You cannot tell me that cat's memories are so poor that they don't remember being chased every time they come into a certain garden?