Dog Food Aggression

By 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 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 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 dog food 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 use to have people walk around while it eats and randomly pet your puppy while it eats as well.

If your dog growls while you pet him then continue to pet him for a little 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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