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Protecting it’s food.
feed them more. food aggression usually stems from the dog feeling like its not getting enough to eat and that it has to fight for its food.
I’d say to rent the DVD videos for the first couple of seasons of the tv show the dog whisperer and watch every episode. He deals with stuff like this, and I have seen a couple episodes that address your exact problem, I think in season 1 or 2.
His whole deal is about being ‘calm and assertive’. You could actually be contributing to the problem without knowing it. Like if you get tense and are saying ‘watch out she might bite!’ or you make a big deal out of separating the dogs and what not. the dog can pick up on that energy and it can amplify their negative behavior. Not saying you do that… but something to keep in mind.
Dog whisperer’s method is that you want to stay calm, be assertive, be the boss of your house and don’t let the dog do the unwanted behavior. The way that he accomplishes that is by stopping the behavior before it starts.
Say you don’t want her near the other dogs food bowl. Try standing between her and the food. Stand your ground, but stay calm, and show the dog that it is your food, not hers. Imagine yourself as one of those British Palace guards or something… stand tall, head high, calm and relaxed, but feel the authority emanating from yourself. The dog can pick up on it.
If she tries to move for the bowl, tell her a ’shush’ or ‘leave it’ (verbal correction), and don’t let her. She goes for it again, ’shush’ again. No need to raise your voice, just ’shush’, or a calm ‘no’, or whatever works for you. If that isn’t enough, you maybe have to put her on a leash and give her a little tug on the leash as a correction along with the verbal correction. If you’ve done a training class, you may already know how to give a little tug on the leash as a correction. A dog trainer should be able to give you proper council on that.
The goal in this exercise though is to get her attention off the bowl of food. She even looks at the bowl of food? Correction. ‘Shush’. She grumbles or whines about it, ’shush’. The very second her eyelid blinks towards that food bowl, ’shush’. You want to snap her brain out of it before she can even think about being bad.
The dog’s brain is like food? food food Food Food FOOD FOOD!!! ATTACK!!! You dont want to let it get that far. You want: food? Shush! End of story.
So you want to keep it up until the dog calms down and forgets about the food, or basically becomes ‘calm and submissive’. Once they are calmed down and their brain is not interested in the food anymore, well then you have won the battle. Maybe not the war in one day, but the battle.
Keep at it, and the dog should eventually get with the program and realize that it has to be calm and friendly if it wants that tasty food. Same thing with biting / growling at other dogs or your friends or whoever. Try to stop the behavior before it starts, by using a correction, and don’t let up until the dog drops the attitude and calms down.
Eventually you want your dog to see that you are the pack leader in the house, and then maybe it will leave the duties of protecting the food up to you
Well I am no dog whisperer, but that’s my guess of how he might handle that situation. My wife and i have learned a lot from his tv show and books, stuff that has helped us a lot with our pup. Good Luck!
You should find this post of great interest on how to correct this problem:
Here’s a good article on the subject:
Many people will have different opinions, but bottom line is, you don’t want your dog to be food aggressive. The fact that she is already food aggressive and has also bitten someone who has just approached her food container area is serious.
You may need the assistance of a professional trainer if you try things to reverse it and it just is not working.
Food is something I have always trained my dogs to be very friendly around. So friendly that I know if a toddler went to their food bowl and put his or her hands in the dog food bowls, the dogs would just stand back and watch.
One of our dogs had a brief food aggression when a certain very desired treat (doggie ice-cream in cups) was served. We each hold a cup and let the dogs eat. One got possessive and I stopped that immediately. The way I did it was to use one cup and let them take turns licking the ice cream. I purposely put them closer and closer together and when the one got snippy, I commanded her into a down position and her turn was skipped. It only took a few times for her to never try that again. Now I fully trust her to tolerate her sisters and any one that would be around regardless of how delectable the treat is.
I wouldn’t advise doing this with a dog that is already very food aggressive and who has bitten someone. In fact, since the dog has bitten someone where her food is concerned, you may want to enlist the help of a qualified professional.
Mine were trained from puppyhood to be tolerant of people and other dogs where food is concerned.
She should obviously be corrected when she acts this way.
What did you do, when she did this?
(I would have flattened a dog who dared to go after a human just because he was near her food. All the food belongs to ME. My dogs own nothing.)
1: read up on food aggression and dog behavior.
It’s RUDE for a dog to walk up and start eating another dog’s food, so SHE was right to bite the other dog.
You should have been mortified that you didn’t protect her food from the other dog’s rude invasion!
#2: figure out which dog is alpha dog. You’re supposed to be alpha pack leader, but if she’s the alpha dog she MUST be fed FIRST! ALWAYS!
You can separate the dogs at feeding time if you can’t take time to protect her food from thieving dogs. -!-
There was a question on here this morning on the pact order and this video shows the behavior with food and how to corrct it.You need to show you are the pact leader and the voice and stance over her will work..keep practicing the method.Scroll down a little on this page and click on the 20min video
I have many Border Collies in the last 25 years and until recently I have never had one that was food possessive.
I have fed her separately from my other dogs for 10 months because she would go into kill mode if another dog was in the room.I couldn’t give my dogs treats either.
I have used clicker training to cure her problem. I ask another dog to sit and click and reward that dog and reward her with my other hand at the same time.She understood that because the other dog obeyed it deserved a reward so she didn’t show any aggression.She did give it a sideward glance though!
I then rewarded her before the other dog but asked for a sit first.She needed to understand that dogs take turns in being asked to sit and being rewarded.
Gradually I would ask for sit and reward her after the other dog.
Now I can reward my dogs without aggression from her because she gets clicked and rewarded for not showing aggression.
If you can’t be bothered with all that I suggest you get a can of spray corrector and set her up and spray her for aggression.Works straight away and puts her in her place.After all she does all this because she is a bossy collie girl!
My 18 month old Border Collie cross has some food aggression issues. Only to other dogs, though, and rightly enough- If another person ate off of my plate, I’d rip their frigging hand off. Having said that, aggression to people is unacceptable, and invading another dogs space is unacceptable. The food is yours, the house is yours, every bit of the ground that dog is on is a privilege, because it belongs to you. My dogs own nothing at all, no matter what they think. They relinquish whatever is in their mouth when I say Mine no matter how yummy it may be.
My two dogs are fed seperately because my older dog believes he has the right to eat the younger dogs’ food, and the younger dog tries to eat him. They can see each other, but they cannot get to each other because I block the path.
I would get in a behaviourist to fix the aggressive behaviours. In the meantime, feed to dogs in seperate rooms, and don’t allow the dog anywhere near his food unless you want him there. In my house, under my roof, aggressive dogs go without until they calm down and learn some manners. My dogs learnt pretty damn fast that attacking each other just meant they didn’t get fed. Teach your dogs that Nothing In Life Is Free, and they earn the right to eat your food.
Well I dont know how to stop it, but I know a soulution.
Get a crate, if you already have one, get another, put in the room that is least busy, when you are feeding the other dogs put her in there, when the other dogs are done eating, let her out and feed her, if she snarls or tries to bite anyone or the other dogs, put her in that crate for ten minutes.
She probably should be fed first then. Otherwise, have her go chase a frisbee or just leave her outside until you’re done hand-feeding the others, or feed them all the same amount pretty much, each taking a turn.
The dog issue is easy, quit feeding her with the other dogs.
As for her guarding the container from a person that needs to be addressed. You need to get the help of a behaviorist
I would also look into the book MINE! by Jean Donaldson which deals with resource guarding.
Pushy dogs should not be rewarded. If you reward pushiness you get pushiness. A pushy, bully dog gets to wait and needs to do so patiently before it is rewarded. Reward appropriate non-pushy behavior and you get appropriate non-pushy behavior.
She obviously needs to be fed more and I would feed her separately from the other dogs.
Why would your friend be dumb enough to go to her food container? That’s just stupid, especially with a food aggressive dog.
Feed her more, feed her away from the other dogs and leave her to eat in peace – eventually she will realize that there is enough food for her and calm down. I have gone through this with several foster dogs I took in, they fear that food is not always forthcoming and so they are food aggressive.
Give them enough food at regular times and eventually they get over it when they realize they will always be fed and no one is going to take away from them.
Please, make sure your friends don’t take it on themselves to interfere with the dog’s food either.
What other dogs? Yours? If they aren’t yours and you are feeding them she feels like she may be getting left out and your attention is on another dog. She doesn’t like that, but YOU are the alpha. Your friend should not have put his/her hand near her food and for what reason? Buy a soft muzzle. If she is trained that well, put the muzzle on and make her watch the others eat and make her stay sitting. If she barks, use a loud noise to distract her and make her hush and then always praise and love when she does well. Feeding her afterwards. The human biting is a problem, big time. Again, your friend should have not messed with her food, he isn’t her alpha. So you can avoid that by feeding her yourself and then, make her eat out of your hand three or four times and then put her bowl down. Pet her, touch her. If she growls or snaps, take the food up and muzzle for 10 minutes. You need to be consistent on this until YOU can put your hand in her bowl while she is eating and she won’t skip a beat. Be consistent, use the same command words so she doesn’t confuse them and in every part of your daily routine, let her know you RULE.
yeah, i’ve the same problem as you do,
but since i get dog personal trainer,
i don’t have any problem again with that.
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Feed the dog alone!!!DUH!
Your answer with the competitive issues between these dogs is to feed them separately!! I’ve had any number of inside dogs, living as a pack, and the only way I could deal with the potential for this was to feed them in the same place always. And I put the bowls down in the same order, calling their names each time. If I didn’t do this, most likely it would have been chaos, although I never gave them the opportunity to find out. Common sense.
However what I did insist on was them allowing me to pick up their bowls, at any time. This extends to giving up treats, bones etc – which is essential in case they get into something they really should be into.
Although what happened with your friend should never have happened, you do need to respect a dog at feeding time and it’s quite possible that your ***** saw your friend as ‘another dog’ coming at her bowl, and acted instinctively. Again, common sense.