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Originally Posted by 107barney  Youre lucky you escaped alive! My barney would've had you in the ER. Teaching the drop command will help. Leave it is fun for them because it works on their instinctive hunting instinct (a trainer told me that). Drop is much much harder because in dog language whoever has it in their mouth owns it. You're asking him to give up what is HIS resources. Drop and wait have no impact on each other just as "come" and stay do not. Far easier to teach stay than come. I do think resource guarding like this should be taken as a serious problem and addressed immediately. Ive never cured barney of it completely, but he at least now guards only from the other dogs and my trainer says that's ok. |
Yeah, it's the possessiveness that concerns me. I think he sort of got brave or felt threatened (or both?) because he was in his hidey-hole and reacted. He never does this if he's out in the open or if I'm trying to take his food from his bowl, etc. He does, however, do this if he's in his crate. I'll keep working on him!!!! Thanks for the tips, though. I need them!