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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, yes the difficult teen years. Or young adult years.

The very few times this happened with my 45lbs dog, I loudly said NO, and pushed him away from his food, asserting my ascendancy over his bowl.  I felt I could do that safely, since I've had this dog since he was a young pup, and he knows I'm the boss. He was just trying something, and stopped doing it.
After that, I hand-fed him a few times, and experimented with taking away his bowl in the middle of feeding, plunging my hand in the bowl and taking out kibble, etc. And then I did this with toys, although he hadn't yet progressed to guarding toys. But just to be thorough.

This may be dangerous to do if your dog has progressed to more aggressive guarding. [/quote]

Do not do this! If you do not get severely bitten, it is only teaching your dog that he can't get away with resource guarding with you the alpha. What about when a kid goes near him while eating? You want to teach them to no longer do the behavior for anyone at anytime. Positive reinforcement training rather than dominating gives much more consistent long term results while maintaining your dog's trust and respect in you.     [/quote]

Don’t be ridiculous. I taught my kids do this too. You’ve got to know your dog, that’s all.

Positive training works until it doesn’t. Don’t fall for the “positive only” school of thought, because it takes a lot longer to work, and doesn’t work for a lot of dogs. ***Mostly, it creates a lot of jobs for trainers***, because of the aforementioned time commitment and the fact that by the time people hire trainers, their dogs need a ton of positive training!

Dogs are simple: they understand carrot and stick. If the figurative carrot won’t work, try the figurative stick.

Please never think that humans are NOT the boss of the dog. You will confuse your dog and make things worse. Dogs are not children and should not be treated the same as Snowflake Larlo.
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