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A small but important victory! (food aggression)
Takara's snappy with other dogs when it comes to food (a person can take anything out of her mouth but put a dog near her when food is around and she's mental).
I've been training her to know that her food isn't threatened and part of this is, when her mood is right (sometimes I can sense it won't work), she is told to sit and wait while another dog is fed (say a friend's dog in the park) and if she's good, she gets a treat too.
At the moment we're dogsitting an 8 month old dally bitch (yes, it's a mad house) and we did have a few little scraps that Takara started - pup came last minute and introduction wasn't as smooth as we'd have liked.
This morning I went for a walk, I've not been taking treats on walks recently because of the food issue (If she thinks I have them she's a nightmare) with just the girls and after a recall, Takara got rewarded, I thought she'd run straight off again so turned to reward little pup. When I turned around again, there was Takara sat, waiting!
So she's now seeing other dogs being fed as a cue to sit down and wait to be fed!
The fact that she's had the pup staying with her for the last couple of days has probably helped but they've had to be separated around food anyway so I'm still thinking of it as a great achievement for her!