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I have a staffy lab cross. when she was a puppy, she nearly ate my guinae pig, and ended up giving her a heart attack by barking at her so much. Then a year or so later, a bird somehow got into our house and stuck under the cough (I know, wtf?) and she killed it before we could get it out. It's just in their nature, you can't do anything about it except make sure they can't get anywhere near things they can kill. Especially staffys. they're hyperactive hunting dogs.
As for punishing dogs in general, remember you can only punish a dog like 2 seconds after it's done something otherwise it wont be able to associate the punishment with what it did and it'll just think you're a total bitch.
Best you can do for now is make sure your brother helps pay for the damages they've caused, and make sure to keep an eye on the dogs and stop them when they try and wreck something - but if you chase them around and yell, they'll just think you're playing. I don't really have any more I can tell you though, since I was only a kid when our dog was a puppy, so I don't really remember what we did. Don't listen to>>226996though. Doesn't know what he's on about. Cats will do anything they can to get birds and fish aswell - it makes no difference what the animal does to get to it. They're just it's natural prey. It doesn't mean they're a danger to humans or other dogs.
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