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IF this is his only problem and IF he is not possessive of treats or food scraps found on the floor then why not simply crate the dog for the less than 5 min it will take him to eat in peace.

In My personal opinion IF a dog is ONLY food BOWL aggressive and NOT aggressive about treats or "found" food scraps, then "I" have lots better things to spend my time, energy and $ on then training a dog to let me near his bowl. I simply crate the dog for the few seconds it takes my dogs to eat

Most of my dogs would never tolerate another dog loose near them to eat, nor cats. But I could care less because they are always fed in crates (except Bea and Angelica)

Bea was very growly about her bowl when young and I decided to do an experiment with her since most of the world is neurotic about food bowl issues and most people refuse to crate their dogs to eat. So what we did was feed in the kitchen on one side of the room. The kids were not allowed in while she ate and we adults ignored her totally while she was eating. We did not mess with her food or hand feed her. We ignored her no matter what she did and pretended that her corner of the kitchen did not exist.

Now at 20 months old the kids can go into the kitchen for whatever reason while she eats and we adults canstep over her, knock into her bowl, whatever normal people do and not a single growl because she has learned her food is safe from people, cats and dogs

As I said in a previous food aggression thread, my friend's dog got much worse when they tried to work him through his bowl issues, he is VERY insecure about his food and tucks tail, growls, snarls etc.. here and at the kennel he is a different dog and never worries at all. They are learnng to just leave him be and he is gettng better but the poor do would have been much better off for them to crate him to eat then try to "train" him out of it

NOW dogs with treat and dropped food aggression are DIFFERENT and I would certainly NOT ignore those dogs and yes would work on that issue