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I had that problem too. My cat is very docile and when the dog runs up to her, she just lies down and freezes(awaiting death?:P). She would curiously go up to him and then change her mind when he decided to sniff her a little to vigourously. I don't know about your cat, but I knew mine didn't like it even though she wouldn't fight back. I used the technique others are suggesting, keeping a leash always on him, and it worked really well. If he runs towards her, I'll step on the leash before he can get to her. If he walks towards her, I allow it to a certain point. He's not allowed to touch her and if it looks like he's going to, I call him over to me and the distract him with something else. The only one allowed to initiate contact is the cat and I find that once he stopped bugging her, she's doing it a lot more often. Oh, and in the early days, I would reward heavily for looking at the cat and then back at me.
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