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Help To Avoid difficult child Dog - New Rescue
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 315587" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>This thing with the 'bones' is called "resource guarding', and it is an ingrained reflex in dogs.</p><p></p><p>My experience has been that the behaviour is different from any other aggressive behavior you see in dogs. The type of growl and snarl is different, and the entire body posture is very different than that seen in other aggression.</p><p></p><p>It ranges from a lunge and a 'huff' to a full out charge at the other dog. In nearly all cases, you are best off letting the dogs work it out. It is very unlikely that they will hurt each other badly, and once the pack pecking order is established, the dogs will work out their own plan for dealing with this.</p><p></p><p>Most important of all is that YOU must be the alpha in the pack. Do some reading on this; it is not simply a case of being in control of food and the like. There's a lot of dog psychology involved in it as well.</p><p></p><p>Also, any of your dogs MUST be trained to allow you to take food from it's mouth, especially 'high value' items like bones and chewies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 315587, member: 1963"] This thing with the 'bones' is called "resource guarding', and it is an ingrained reflex in dogs. My experience has been that the behaviour is different from any other aggressive behavior you see in dogs. The type of growl and snarl is different, and the entire body posture is very different than that seen in other aggression. It ranges from a lunge and a 'huff' to a full out charge at the other dog. In nearly all cases, you are best off letting the dogs work it out. It is very unlikely that they will hurt each other badly, and once the pack pecking order is established, the dogs will work out their own plan for dealing with this. Most important of all is that YOU must be the alpha in the pack. Do some reading on this; it is not simply a case of being in control of food and the like. There's a lot of dog psychology involved in it as well. Also, any of your dogs MUST be trained to allow you to take food from it's mouth, especially 'high value' items like bones and chewies. [/QUOTE]
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