Oh, thank you for your kind words and I'm sorry my posts are long but I try to take it step by step. But there are many ways to train a dog to do anything and hopefully some of our wonderful dog handlers and trainers or any member will add their ways here for all of us to read and gain skills from. I've just posted one way of approaching it more slowly over time to work up to approaching food-bowl guarding, etc. But whatever way works best for you and your own dog is what you should use. I take a slower approach to try to gain the dog's respect and control his impulses first and then branch into more touchy things over time after he begun to accept me as his trusted leader. There are other ways that can work faster and hopefully a lot of people will post their ways so anybody reading this thread can have a choice of tools to help them and their dog co-exist happily once they learn not to guard their resources.
Oh, and yes, Tibbe is a totally different dog than the one who came home with me from his caged world. I know he's happy!
__________________  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
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