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04-01-2020, 12:30 PM | #1 |
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| Resource guarding Help! So Taco is one, he’s had a little bit of resource guarding since we got him but we had a trainer come and we were working on trades. The other day though my 2 year old took a piece of bark from him and got bit pretty hard but it didn’t break the skin and I told him to tell me if Taco had something and to never take it from him. So today my son said Taco had a flower and I went to get it from him and got bit pretty hard, it drew blood. This behavior is obviously getting out of hand. I need to fix this before he draws blood on my son! I’m thinking of putting him in a muzzle but that makes me sad because he really is a sweet dog. |
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04-01-2020, 01:27 PM | #2 |
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| I would continue what the trainer had you doing. A muzzle isn’t a good idea it will keep him from being able to drink. If it’s not fitted by a trainer and the right one it can keep them from panting too. It also is just a bandaid and doesn’t fix the actual problem.
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04-01-2020, 01:44 PM | #3 |
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| I wouldn’t try taking things from the dog better I think to teach him drop it or leave it commands and you can do that with a couple pieces of kibble or whatever he really desires you just put it in front make him sit make him wait when you say OK he can get it. Eventually that works out to whatever is in his mouth needs to be approved by you first you can also work on telling him to drop it while you’re doing a trade he has a toy and you have a toy make him drop his toy by verbal command as you give him your toy.
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04-01-2020, 02:31 PM | #4 |
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04-03-2020, 05:09 AM | #5 |
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| I did tell him to drop it before I took it but he’s not great at that command. It’s hard because everything I look up online is about food recourse guarding and he could care less if I touch his food. It’s just these random “treasures” he finds like tree bark, rocks, sticks, and apparently flowers |
04-03-2020, 06:09 AM | #6 | |
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04-03-2020, 06:17 AM | #7 |
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| Also a variation on the trade deal would be when he drops a toy and he thinks you’re going to give him another one just take the toy and look at it and say OK thank you and give him that one back. I think if they think they’re getting something back then they won’t get as crazy when you go to take stuff from them. I had a problem with Tink I mean all the toys were hers, in her mind. When she finally realized that I always gave her either the same toy back or if it was something I didn’t want her to have I’d give her something to replace it she really settled down to where she wasn’t biting at all... took a few months though.
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04-26-2020, 07:17 AM | #8 |
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| You might try my response suggestions to this post, #3 response: https://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/ge...ting-bite.html As part of obedience training, the suggestions above to teach the "Drop It" command/request are fun lessons well-taught as they dog so enjoys the reward of winning another prize and praise in quick reward for readily dropping whatever he has.
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04-26-2020, 10:14 AM | #9 | |
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Are you using high-value, warm, irresistible treats or food that makes him drool as his special training reward for a week, 10 days, etc. to start, such as warm chicken w/piece of cheese melted on top? Regular dog food and store-bought treats rarely work as well as a loud-smelling piece of warm meat or very stinky cheese. Or if he's toy-oriented, use a scented, fuzzy, hairy or squeaky toy he's crazy about playing with. Unless he tries swallowing the rocks, bark, sticks or flowers, etc., why not use some of those as "payment" for the "drop it" command? Hold up a stick, flower or rock he's found, say "Drop it" and give him that instead of food while you work on getting him motivated to foods or toys as his special, high-value treat. Together with the "No Free Lunch" training to teach him to see you as his established leader and to love, see as fun and automatically, without hesitation or question positively to your requests/commands, see obeying you as a big win for him, it can reshape his attitude toward things you ask him to do and he'll eventually come to respect you and readily respond to you and never even think about growling or behaving aggressively toward you or any of your little family "pack". In a well-ordered pack situation, pups or any but the pack leader EVER try to discipline other pack members, leaving that role for their leader or pair of leaders. They might become exasperated or tempted by another pack member and react in a fake-fight or what is otherwise known as ritual play-fighting, where dogs bite each other without rending the skin or other tearing damage, but loudly growl, snap and make threatening, loud, vicious sounds but aren't really trying to disable the other dog, just send out social signals to stop an unwanted behavior by another pack member. Pack leaders often allow this type of ritualistic behaviors as they dogs are teaching one another how to act but they are not allowed to take on harsh discipline or fighting to injure/disable/kill another pack member without the pack leader intervening immediately.
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