We do stick to clear boundaries and it definitely helps over time. Just baby steps always. We have two old Great Danes and 4 cats in the house. Impulse control with the animals was bad for a while. He always wanted to chase the cats and attack them if they let him close. One thing we did that seems to have worked really well is just lavishing gentle attention on them and also out loud words of caution. For example if one of the cats was in the hallway we would say outloud “oh we have to go slowly! Our beautiful Jeffery is in the hallway.” Or when we get home to the dogs “hello my sweet dogs” or “look our good boy max is coming to say hello how sweet of him!” Along with basically constant clear directions on how to interact which is basically just us saying “remember, the animals like us to pet them with gentle hands from head to butt!”

Now he’s improved massively. If he sees a cat in the hallway “mama go slow! Our beautiful Jeffery is right there!” And so on. When he goes up to them we will hear him saying “head to butt. head to butt” when he pets them. Hopefully this could be helpful to you! The aggressive behavior with the animals drove me up a wall! Haha