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Location: UK
Joined: Sep 2010
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Toy Possessiveness and Aggression
How would you best deal with it?
If we are out and Storm has a stick or toy and any dog comes near him, he will growl and curl his lip up at the dog. Today Storm actually stole a ball off of a Flat Coated Retriever and (there were two of them) when the other dog went near Storm, he growled at it and it wasn't even his ball!!
Also, much worse, in the last few days, two different dogs have gone up to Storm and taken his toy away from him and Storm has attacked them, though nobody was hurt...Thank goodness!! The first time it happened, the owner (who I know quite well through walking our dogs in the same field) was absolutely fine about it and just told her dog off for taking Storm's ball. But surely Storm shouldn't react like this over toys? I know they're HIS toys, but he does seem to go a bit over the top.
Both times he has 'attacked' and I have stopped the fight, I have taken the toy off of Storm and put him on his lead. Once the toy has gone away, he is back to being absolutely fine with the dog he has 'attacked'.
Is there anything else I should/should not be doing to try to control/stop this behaviour?