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You can change they way they feel emotionally, without triggering them to react. We don’t need to see the bad behavior in action to help a dog feel differently.
One of my family members yelled at their dog for growling. He luckily never bit them
But he never stopped growling
Yelling didn’t fix the problem, and hitting them would make them bite you
Someone hit a dog and wonder why they got bitten back
Because the dog was defending themselves
This is not only common sense, it’s backed up by scientific research. So why would anyone punish resource guarding? That doesn’t make any sense.
follow the science, it’s safe and effective
@Million Art Exactly!
This short is not helpful at all. Repeating the negatives too much. Include a positive statement, please.
That’s not what the short is about. It’s to correct something owners are doing incorrectly.
You’re preaching to the choir here. Don’t do this because of that.
But not even a brief intro on to what to actually do
You teach them that when the hand gets close, something good happens. Or when they lose one thing, they get something even better. You saw him offering the bone to lick and then when the dog didn’t react, offering a second treat.
Holding the bone while they’re chewing is an excellent way of desensitizing them to your hand being near the thing they want to guard, that’s how I stopped my dog from recourse guarding as a puppy
Marzieh was attacking very old Jasper. It was something to do with food even when no food was present. I dealt with it by making a big fuss of Jasper and giving him treats while ignoring Marzieh. I also realised that Marzieh did it when she was hungry so I increased her food. Okay so she got fat but the attacks stopped. (Now that Jasper has died, she’s on a diet.)
Marzieh isn’t the first dog who resource guarded. Bryn also guarded toys which was easy to deal with. I invented a game called “sharing”. It involved a lot of treats and Bryn got fat for a while but it worked well at home. Walking her in the park was more problematic. She was very suspicious of Labradors and spaniels.
See this is when I would draw the line and say positive only training isn’t always a good thing. You essentially chose to allow your dog to become unhealthy/overweight rather than letting her know that behavior is inappropriate. When you prioritize sticking with the “Don’t teach the dog he was in the wrong, it’ll hurt his little feelings” over their health and well being (not to mention the well being of the dog who was being attacked in this instance), then something is very wrong.
@Pumpkinhead85 well as Jasper was 15 and struggling I knew that it was a temporary problem and a quick fix was important for his sake. Also I think that making a fuss of Jasper and giving him super nice treats was a powerful message that she was in the wrong. Marzieh didn’t get fat enough to affect her health. In Bryn’s case, she learned fast and again it was more important to protect Jasper than anything else. Jasper was the nicest dog you could ever meet and never in his whole life retaliated when he was attacked.
Now Marzieh doesn’t have a rival for food (the cats don’t bother her) she spins wildly when she is hungry. So I am trying to solve her hunger pangs problem and there’s no way that any kind of teaching her she is in the wrong is going to work in that situation.
@Jen Kirby Wonder why she’s so obsessed with food? Was she a stray at some point?
@Pumpkinhead85 no. I got her at 8 weeks old from her parents.
I wouldn’t physically punish my dog for snapping over a toy or food. But I would make sure he understands that the item is in fact NOT HIS and he will have it only when I decide he acted appropriately to EARN it. It’s no different than giving them a reward for doing a trick or following a command. Sure, having to earn it isn’t what he wants to do but even in positive only training we don’t give the dog anything it wants whenever he wants it.
So… some shorts aren’t quite helpful.
This is projecting your human behavior onto dogs. I’m not saying yell at the dog or hit it, that’s also projecting human behavior onto the dog, but you need to claim whatever they think it is they’re guarding. JUst like a more dominant dog would, you assert your dominance and ownership of saif thing in a valm but unflinching way till your dog accepts.
The initial inference and logic only holds true if you do take away the resource completely and leave it at that. The correction is more often than not IMPERATIVE. Expose them to a resource on leash, NOT A HARNESS correction when guarding, repeat, repeat, repeat, in different enviornments with different resources. And reward their behavior and attentiveness. Also very good basic obedience will help immensly. I recommend standard k9 training
As an owner u are the provider and the dog should know that … To help the pup build trust with humans u just give n give until they are nice again, give treats to the dog bowl give more toys before taking one and when play time and food time is done put it all away when they are doing something else so it is not something they feel they have to watch, as the provider u take care of it. Reward positive reactions by showing the dog u trust them and love them when they act correctly, u dnt always have to give treats but it does help. If u see them anxious about something comfort them in their love language, words or touch or eye contact. Don’t always give them something they want right when they want it, make them look at u first and do something sweet so they know they have to be nice and they will get everything they want! Show them it makes u happy when they feel safe and are nice!