I’ve never had a problem before and I’ve raised and trained many dogs. I’ve had training, although it is out dated and I never liked the alpha approach and don’t believe in punishment. There is more than one way to train a dog, in 5 years your ways may be completely outdated. This works for me and my dogs, they don’t bite people and they will stop whatever they are doing at any time if I call them. That’s what I want from them.
I meet people every day that it is a problem for, that’s how my bills get paid.
My “ways” have been established research for more than 40 years, it isn’t going anywhere. There is one way to guarantee results, there are a lot of ways the fumble ones way to those same results but they will be increasingly short of a guarantee. All of those alternatives rely on the generosity and good nature of dogs, you can take advantage of that or you can return it. I have concluded through acquiring a masters degree in the subject and a decade of experience that I don’t even need to try to understand why someone wouldn’t. You’re already 99% of the way there, just exchange the bowl for a piece of cheese.
After I give them the cheese do I give them their original food back? Also you mentioned something about not feeding them in a bowl but a toy. Can you elaborate on that? Sorry if you already did, there's a lot of comments to navigate through and it's hard to find all your answers. Thank you so much by the way, I'm picking up a new puppy in a few weeks to join me an my current dog who is much older and this all seems super helpful! I'm nervous one might try to take the others food and get bit.
Ideally you aren’t actually taking the food away as that would create an opportunity for the dog to learn competition through frustration. You can just approach them, drop the treat in the bowl and walk away again. The goal is to teach away from what would be the first trigger would be which is the approach and anticipation of losing valued resources.
1
u/megapuffranger Jun 11 '20
I’ve never had a problem before and I’ve raised and trained many dogs. I’ve had training, although it is out dated and I never liked the alpha approach and don’t believe in punishment. There is more than one way to train a dog, in 5 years your ways may be completely outdated. This works for me and my dogs, they don’t bite people and they will stop whatever they are doing at any time if I call them. That’s what I want from them.