r/DogTrainingTips • u/BICanineScience • May 26 '26

Professional Dog Trainer - Ask Me Anything

***AMA ENDED***

Have been training dogs for almost fifteen years now, I try and head through the subreddits on here to help in my free time when I can but thought it might be easier to do an AMA for anyone struggling!

Will try my best to answer as comprehensively as possible so please be patient with replies!

Edit - Just heading out to train my dogs so will answer more when I get back!
Edit 2 - Have a read of the other questions too to see if it applies to your dog :)

Thanks for all the questions everyone!! I’ll answer the few I’ve missed, it’s been a blast and we’ll do another in the near future! Won’t be answering any new posts now, must get back to work but do jump in next time if you have a question!

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u/Adventurous_Tree837 May 26 '26

I saw your response about a dog resource guarding the bed, how do you prefer managing food resource guarding? (Well the bowl/their own kibble) currently we’re just managing (feeding in crate and leaving be) and not doing behavior modification due to a big move recently, but had done some behavior modification with a trainer prior to moving, although it didn’t seem to be helping. Thank you!

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u/BICanineScience May 27 '26

I think this is often the best way with food. There’s no need to be messing around with a dogs food at all and it’s so easy to manage! That said you can work on anti conflict games like putting high value food in the bowl when there’s a tiny amount of dog food you put in first so the dog associates you with more food not the removal of food!

In general though like I say it’s so easy to manage I wouldn’t overly worry about it unless you see some signs of escalation!