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Dog Food Aggression

Dog Food AggressionBy Vic Lee

Some dogs can develop food aggression. This is when your dog growls or even tries to bite you when you come near his food or while it is eating.

Correction dog food aggression is essential for a healthy relationship between you and your dog as well as with your family, especially and particulary if you have younger children.

A dogs instinct is to guard their food. What your dog needs to learn is that you are anyone else that comes near his food is not a threat.

Many times this can be the owner's fault, especially and particulary if you train your dog with aggression. Remember that any type of dog training should be fun and there is no need for roughness while training.

Hitting your dog or pulling away your dog roughly with a leash will not help because this will only impel your dog to become more aggressive.

Be aware that helping your dog stop food aggression will not happen from one day to the next. Training your dog will take patience and lots of care.

First, make sure that when giving your dogfood that it knows that you are not a threat, do this by gently petting your dog and make sure there are no other distractions.

If you have a puppy, it is easier to stop food aggression because you can get your puppy (dog typically under 1 year old) use to have people walk around while it eats and randomly pet your puppy (dog typically under 1 year old) while it eats as well.

If your dog growls while you pet him then continue to pet him for a small while and do this every day until your dog knows that you are not a threat. When you dog does not growl or snap at you then make sure your praise your dog for good behavior and also give it a treat.

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Stop Dog Food Aggression

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Stop Dog Food AggressionBy Jack Richardson

If you place your dog's food down and he growls or snaps at you, this is called food aggression or food guarding. This can have severe effects on your relationship with the dog as well as his relationship towards you and your family.

Oftentimes, this can behavior must be trained out of the animal, or it will continue indefinitely. Dogs have an instinctive need to guard there food. Most times, this doesn't present itself because the dog trusts his master above all else. Sometimes, though, this instinct surfaces in dogs and can be a hazard to you and your family if left alone. What the dog must learn is that he should not be threatened by you when it is feeding time.

If you are angry or violent in your training habits when teaching your dog about food aggression, then he may have a tendency to become aggressive back, hindering the training process. Hitting or using a leash to pull the dog away from his food during these periods of aggression can make him even more agitated and can become dangerous for both of you.

Food aggression will not go away overnight, however with continued patience and working with the animal, the problem can be resolved. A routine is the greatest solution to this problem. Using certain stimuli that tell the dog it is time to eat and there is no need to be anxious or nervous is the key. During this routine, ensure that there are not distractions such as children or other animals in the room. Another animal walking by or a child passing can become an immediate step back while training for food aggression.

As you prepare to feed the dog, tell him to sit. Make him wait for you to place the food down. He must learn that you are the master and he must wait on you. If you can get him to start eating only after a voice command, then that is a great step, although for some it may be asking too much at first. If you are training a puppy, it will be a small easier because as he eats, walk around, pet, and praise him. If he growls, pet him and let him know you are not going to take his food. For a week or two, only work on these steps. For older dogs, try dropping a treat or tidbit for him as a reward - treats that are tastier than his dog food. By doing this, he will learn that people passing him is a good thing.

This is a good starting place. Other steps can be implemented down the road, however this foundation is what you want to build on. By progressing slowly, it will not be long before food aggression is no longer an issue.

Jake Richardson is a review specialist at 9Reviews.com. For more information and details on dog obedience training reviews including Sit Stay Fetch, please visit 9Reviews.com's Dog Obedience Training section.

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Dog Training - How to Correct Your Dogs Behavior Problem

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Dog Training - How to Correct Your Dog's Behavior ProblemBy Dr. Mayra Alfonso

Many, if not all species of animals have a wide variety or diversity of different aggressive behaviors which can be attributed to many different reasons. Reasons range from the animal trying to defend itself against what they have perceived as a threat or it could be due to competition for food, territory or a mate. Whatever it might be, aggressive behavior can be found in many animals and not just in dogs, though domestication as well as selective breeding has minimized much of the aggressive behavior in domestic dogs. Dog behavior like herding, watchdog barking, dog to dog compulsive fighting, pointing as well as retrieving are all stylized forms of predation and aggression. Aggression can be expressed toward another dog or toward a human.

A typical dog behavior problem related to aggression is that of their aggression towards strangers. When a dog appears to be uncomfortable being around strangers or dislikes only a certain stranger like big men, people in uniform or even children it could be because he or she was not socialized fully. A dog that is fully socialized would be relaxed in an environment where there are many elements included such as a new place and new people. So how does one socialize a pet dog? It is as simple as giving your pet enough exposure as well as positive experiences. This kind of dog training should be done while they are still young as your dog might have problems if they were only exposed socially at a late age.

There are also cases wherein pet dogs are aggressive towards family members. The usual causes for this type of aggression in dogs are poor tolerance of body handling as well as resource guarding. Defense of their food, territory or sleeping locations as well as other resources is an adaptive trait which is selective in many group-living carnivores. Like their untamed brothers, this dog behavior could ever so often manifest itself in our pet dogs in the form of beingoverly possessive towards their food dishes, bones, sleeping places like the sofa, toys and even garbage! Fortunately, there are measures that an owner can take to help make their pet dogs more relaxed around their resources.

So what can a dog owner do to help treat aggression in their pet dogs? Well you should first understand that many under socialized dog's aggression can be improved gradually with the combined help of remedial socialization and classic conditioning. The speed and the odds of improvement when training dogs will depend on your pet dog's genetic make-up, their age and the severity of the problem as well as the owner's compliance with the given instructions. So it won't only require effort from your pet dog however from you as well.

An important factor to mention as well is how well developed your dog's bite inhibition is. Puppies learn the "soft mouth" through play biting other puppies in a constant manner. Basically when a puppy bites another one a small too hard, that other puppy would yelp and stop playing. If this repeats constantly, the puppies would then learn to not bite too hard so that their playing will continue. So when you stop puppies from play-biting, they won't learn "soft mouth" and would grow up with a higher risk of dog to dog aggression.

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