This is one of many games to play to prevent resource guarding in young puppies. This exercise is meant for young puppies who do not guard chews as a way of preventing them from thinking to guard chews in the future. Some puppies, start off not guarding food, but by having their chew taken away many times by people, the puppies start learning to guard. In this exercise we are teaching the puppies to drop a chew on cue. This is useful if the puppy finds something they shouldn’t have, or you need to take a chew away from the puppy because it is getting too short.
This exercise is not meant for puppies who guard or adult dogs. For puppies or adult dogs who guard as well as guard severely, a plan cantered to that dogs specific needs should be created. If you have a puppy or dog with severe guarding issues, I suggest getting help from a professional trainer who doesn’t use any forms of intimidation, to help set up a counter conditioning plan for your specific dog.
Really good one, I see quite a few adult dogs with resource guarding issues, an excellent video for when I see pups before it gets that far.
Can you tell me what breed is the first dog ?
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He looks like a golden retriever x poodle crossbreed
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I love your videos. I tell people that have need for dog training to check out your channel. Thank you so much for all you do to help dogs and their owners.
You had some of the best training videos. This one was especially helpful. Thanks! I’ve already recommended all my friends with dogs to your videos.
Great Video! No need to be confrontational over chew toys!
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I’d love to try this! These dogs are sitting so calmly as their eating their chew toys though. My dog is writhing around like it’s on fire while nipping like crazy and making monstrous noises. No attention span at all!
Michael Battaglia Sounds like you need to do attention-building exercises first. Teach them to pay attention and look at you when you call their name or make a specific noise. When they get good at this they usually drop anything they are doing.
This is a great video. I have question. You say this is not for guarding puppies or adult dogs. Do you mean adult dogs who guard or adult dogs in general? Could I do this with my adult dogs who don’t guard but need practice on dropping higher value items?
I love your videos ! Could you make or have you ever made one dealing with how to stop your puppy bitting your pants ? Because my 4 month lab is doing this or barking at us to get attention and even if he can drop food or toys when he is excited he doesn t drop pants…many thanks
Dogs… Yes we want a Chew to please!!!
Super videos 🙂 when`s the next coming out?
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Wow, a super early kikopup video! Nice. One suggestion, if your dog is not interested in the chew toy, make it interesting, and then move it away from the dog. In dogs with higher prey drives this will call on their instinct to chase and bite. Shoving chew toys in their mouth won’t work on some dogs. Prey doesn’t jump into a predator’s mouth.
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My dog finds all chews I’ve found thus far high value, would a toy work instead as well?
My 4 month puppy swallowed a bully stick when I did this exercise and rushed to let him hold it…silly me
What is the chew in this video please?
I absolutely LOVE your videos. I’ve been using your channel as a resource for new puppy buyers and always direct them to your channel when they have inevitable puppy problem behavior. BUT, I was wondering if you ever would consider making a video on how to curb resource guarding between a new puppy and another dog ? How do we encourage the new puppy to be happy about sharing toys with an older dog ? I would love to see your approach to this specific situation!
I have a 17 page protocol on my website https://dogmantics.com/resource-guarding-protocol/ For that specific situation Id teach both dogs a default leave it when the other dog is playing with a toy, you can cue them to get their own toy. For serious cases I teach a default drop it and back away for the guarder. Then just teach the other dog not to bother the one dog, but there is the emergency drop it if things go wrong. You can then teach them to play with toys together in training sessions.
Hi Emily I know you had a seminar on resource guarding I’ve now broken up for Christmas and have time to watch it do you still have a link to access this? I would really like to watch it.
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