Aggressive Dog- Food Aggression

You will know if your dog has food aggression if he growls or shows his teeth when reaching for his bowl. Training for aggressive dogs like these should begin immediately to prevent further dangers – especially when there are kids around the house who can innocently reach into the dog’s food bowl and may risk getting seriously hurt.

Dog training for aggressive behavior regarding food, aims to make the dog learn to not to be threatened whenever there are other people near him as he chows down from his food bowl. He must learn that even if the food bowl is usually regarded as his own, mealtime or any activity in particular is according to your own terms – as the leader of the ‘pack’. Before anything else, try to figure out the cause of your dog’s aggression by consulting the professionals. Your dog’s behavior may be provoked by a medical condition or abuse.

There is no express one way of how to treat aggressive dog behavior. Training aggressive dogs with eating disorders is time-consuming, not to mention somewhat draining, but the benefits you reap afterwards are well worth all the effort.

One way of how to treat aggressive dog behavior is to set a fixed mealtime for your dog. Make sure he has plenty of time to eat. Prepare your dogs food and put it on the floor making him wait till your finished preparing it.He will learn that his getting fed depends on you.

Gradually, try to pet your dog while he’s eating and then walk away. In this way, he will get to know that you’re not a threat to his food – that you have no intention to take his food away. At times, try to toss a treat or two into his food bowl – he will come to associate a person nearing his food bowl with treats and start looking forward to it, rather than try to drive the person away.

Try to have a variation in your dog’s feeding space as well. This is how to treat aggressive dog behavior towards food. Feeding him in a different place lessens his territorial tendencies and makes him comfortable to eat just anywhere – this can be helpful too when you have to go out on long trips.

Don’t just leave food for your dog in a food bowl wherein he can eat anytime, just leave the bowl empty on the floor. Your dog will come to you if he is hungry. Place a small amount of food in his bowl then leave.

Take his bowl away for a while and let him eat from your hand. After a while, when he seems comfortable, hand feed him over his food bowl – this will have you take control of his bowl.

Gradually let the food drop from your hands into the bowl.

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