How It’s Possible To Get Your Dog To Stop Being Possessive Near His Food Bowl

An exceedingly challenging problem that may occur with any dog is food jealousy. That means the dog thinks that the food is his and you can take it away so he must protect it. Naturally your dog is not born this way which means that the behavior has been taught with time, whether intentionally or unconsciously.

A big concern with food possessiveness is the potential danger that the dog may snap at the dog owner or worse at their youngsters. Occasionally dog lovers are busy people and they forget that dogs view their youngsters as other dogs. When a child is crawling around on the floor and is playing with the dog food bowl, the dog only sees another dog trying to get his food. So this is an important subject that should be regarded and properly handled to stop possible difficulties.

There are a few methods to stop this behavior. The first thing that you need to do as a dog lover is regulate the quantity of food that is available to your dog at one point. You must feed him twice each day and if there's anything left in his food bowl after 10 min, then you should take it away. There is not any point to letting your dog eat whenever he would like to.

The second thing that I seriously recommend that each dog keeper do, is while you are dog is eating his dinner, to walk to his food bowl and drop two treats in it. It has to be something that he values highly so that he learns that when you walk up to his food bowl something nice is going to occur. The very last thing that you need to do is take away the food bowl while the dog is still eating, as which will teach him the opposite: that you come to take the food away.

If you have left-overs that are good enough for dogs, then you can use that rather than treats which may be even better. For instance, when I am making a beef stew I often keep a little bit so I can practice this exercise with my dogs.

If you have never trained this exercise before, I recommend that you do this each day for one week. It’s a very straightforward move to make since your dog will be eating each day anyways, you might as well use this as a training opportunity.

Practicing this exercise will help incredibly down the line. If you've a puppy, then this is an even better chance to train. Get your family involved! Ask them to practice the same exercise with you, and with a range of treats. I would like to recommend that you do this with everyone in your family under, your supervision of course.

If you think that your dog is uncomfortable with the exercise, you can leave treats close by his food bowl rather than in it. Don't fret, he’ll realise there are treats close by and he'll get them whether during or after his dinner.

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