[YorkieMother]

Good suggestion on reading mine by terry rynn.

I am ok with resource guarding as long as it is safe to do so.

I never let our one dog run around with a bully stick. She gets kenneled and the door shut until she is done chewing and then I let her out and take and put up the bully sitck.

It is the only thing that she guards and as it is not in her nature to be a bully or aggressive she allowed to want to keep them to herself, like I do not want to share my choclate. We just set it up so no one gets hurt and there is an end to it on terms we both under stand.

Now if it was food she was guarding it would depend on if it was me or another dog she was guarding from.

ME she be sitting by me eating one treat at a time.
Another dog I would let her handle it as she is allowed to tell another dog to leave her alone while eating as long as things did not get ugly. If so we all justeat in seprate spaces. I do not want my dogs cross feeding as I put things in one bowl as meds I do not in another so not ok.

Why is it we do not allow our dogs the rigth to say a safe no??

JL