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yorkietalkjilly · 01-14-2013, 09:16 PM

Whether you want to work with your dog yourself or seek a professional is up to you and your finances. I would recommend that you do hire one if you can afford it as the good ones are familiar with how to teach you how to deal with this problem.

So many people have had problems like yours and one of the very first things you can do to start to work toward helping Franklin, if you don't have the resources for professional help, is to Google the term Nothing In Life Is Free. The guidelines are free on many websites. Many dog behavior experts recommend using this method for handling any dog that is becoming aggressive and/or dominant, assuming pack leader duties - which in reality is your role. If you will read all that you can about the proper way to start to handle him and that he has to look to you as his pack leader, begin to utterly respect you as the one who decides all things in your family and not him, then the things you will teach him later about how to learn not to resource guard, will come a lot easier. Every single thing he wants in life from this point on should be on your terms and he needs to work a bit to get it, just like in the wild all pack members work for their share of pack resources. The NILIF program will help him begin to accept your instruction as his leader and to realize that he gets what he needs when he does.

The next step is to start him on basic obedience again, even if he's learned all the things as a young dog. Our library here has a good, basic program. Scroll down to Guide Part 5 V for basic obedience and begin working with him.

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If he is already good in basic obedience, I would start him on the Canine Good Citizen program as a guide for keeping him working with you, learning, looking to you as his team leader and more quickly accustom him to quickly obeying your commands. He'll soon want to please you.

I will get back online tomorrow or the next day(having some dental surgery in the A.M. so can't right now) and give you some tools for actually dealing with the resource guarding and how to work to correct it over time. It is not a quick fix. No doubt others will offer advice too and you can use any of it that you feel will best work for you and your dog. But I would sure get him into the NILIF program from one of the guidelines on several of the websites that teach the steps and techniques.

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yorkietalkjilly ♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas Posts: 22,140	Whether you want to work with your dog yourself or seek a professional is up to you and your finances. I would recommend that you do hire one if you can afford it as the good ones are familiar with how to teach you how to deal with this problem. So many people have had problems like yours and one of the very first things you can do to start to work toward helping Franklin, if you don't have the resources for professional help, is to Google the term Nothing In Life Is Free. The guidelines are free on many websites. Many dog behavior experts recommend using this method for handling any dog that is becoming aggressive and/or dominant, assuming pack leader duties - which in reality is your role. If you will read all that you can about the proper way to start to handle him and that he has to look to you as his pack leader, begin to utterly respect you as the one who decides all things in your family and not him, then the things you will teach him later about how to learn not to resource guard, will come a lot easier. Every single thing he wants in life from this point on should be on your terms and he needs to work a bit to get it, just like in the wild all pack members work for their share of pack resources. The NILIF program will help him begin to accept your instruction as his leader and to realize that he gets what he needs when he does. The next step is to start him on basic obedience again, even if he's learned all the things as a young dog. Our library here has a good, basic program. Scroll down to Guide Part 5 V for basic obedience and begin working with him. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/pup...w-parents.html If he is already good in basic obedience, I would start him on the Canine Good Citizen program as a guide for keeping him working with you, learning, looking to you as his team leader and more quickly accustom him to quickly obeying your commands. He'll soon want to please you. I will get back online tomorrow or the next day(having some dental surgery in the A.M. so can't right now) and give you some tools for actually dealing with the resource guarding and how to work to correct it over time. It is not a quick fix. No doubt others will offer advice too and you can use any of it that you feel will best work for you and your dog. But I would sure get him into the NILIF program from one of the guidelines on several of the websites that teach the steps and techniques. __________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis Last edited by yorkietalkjilly; 01-14-2013 at 09:19 PM.