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Originally Posted by Cdn1050  I interpreted the post the same as Jlhnokc. I just have a typically nosey busy body, who thinks she if she's not involved in every activity or hears a strange noise and doesn't investigate that she is missing out on something. There are some threads that you really need to analyze in depth to ensure that the owner of a particular dog is not misinterpreting certain behaviours considered dominant behaviours, but I don't think this is one of those threads. I don't think and I hope no one is thinking of disturbing their dog while they eat. If the dog leaves the bowl of food and greets you is another story. |
I interupt Janus while he's eating for only one reason. And I don't know if its even interupting him, but I'll pet him and put my hand in his bowl to show that I'm not going to take it away so he has no reason to start getting food agressive. And as of yesterday I started dropping in a tid bit size treat to show him that a hand in his food dish while he's eating leads to something special to eat. I have a 3yr old child in the house, and god forbid if Janus ever got the idea to get agressive with him if the child ever wandered over to the food dish when he's eating (not that I allow the child to bother him while eating, but the kid is sneaky and anything is possible, and I usually feed Janus when the child is in another room). Just a practice that I use to do with my last dog and she was never food agressive till I stopped doing that with her.