Preventing Food Aggression

Hi there I'm new to this forum, but I have a 12 week old blue pit bull that has been showing some alarming signs of food aggression. He will growl at me and my fiance if we pet him while he's eating from his food bowl. He also becomes very aggressive and protective when we give him a bone. I want to break him of this behavior as we will be having children soon. He also has been barking at other leashed dogs in our neighborhood when passing, as well as his hair standing up on his back. My parents have a female pit that he plays with often and hard at times. Maybe we need to socialize him more...taking him to dog parks?

 

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Pit bulls by nature are usually dog agresive and socializing won't change that.I strongly recommend rehoming the dog because if he doesn't respect you and your adult fianc* he def won't respect a kid.You should be able to take food or bone away whenever you want growling don't always mean anything.Take the bone or food and see what he does.Id growl to if someone pet me while I'm eating.If you or hubby to scared to test the pup then you def need to get rid of it

 

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Maybe get the damn thing off the top of the bed where u sleep would be a good start learning manners and respecting your shit.

 

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Implement NILIF training ASAP! and please never take the dog to a dog park, he doesn't need doggy friends and it's not a proper way to exercise the dog either. good luck

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We will re-home him if need be, but this more of a last resort at this point. He's still young and impressionable so I think we can teach him to respect us. Question: If take a bone from him and he snaps at me, should I spank him while telling him "NO"? I feel like he should fear me.

Thank you for the link. I read it and sent it to my Fiance so hopefully we can implement these changes.

 

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Seriously he is rubbing his junk all over ur comforter. Take the food away if it growls and put him in a cage.

 

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My 2 cents. Dogs often are how they are. You may be able to curb the food aggression and resource guarding aggression but you won't be able to turn him into a dog that doesn't care if you're near his food or bone. I personally wouldn't have that in my house with my children. As for barking at other dogs, bulldogs in general don't like other dogs. There is no glory to be had at the dog park. Good luck with him whatever you decide.

 

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One track mind?

Thank you for your input.

 

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Ashley is Bull Terrier and Am Staff and when I gave her her first piece of meat at about 8 wks old she growled at me and I immediately choke slammed her cradling the back of her head to make sure I put her down gently and then I feigned a ferocious attack to her stomach while biting her on the ear and then making a series of incredible growling noises, after about 4-5 seconds of that I let her up and gave her back her meat and loved her a bunch and then I waited 5 mins and I tested her again by moving towards her slowly and looking at her and slowly sticking my hand out like I was hesitant and she put her ears back and looked down and away from the meat whenever I approached.

You MUST do the SAME thing ASAP or suffer injury later. To you or another person when your dog is around some food.

To this day Ashley has NEVER EVEN THOUGHT of being aggressive towards me... at all. She'll always remember that day, and she'll always know I love her. It's the way the world works, it's the way dogs work. If you don't like it, you don't like dogs.

 

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I must add that this is something that must be done correctly the first time because you cannot do it repeatedly, if you have to do it more than once you are creating a monster who is building their desire to protect their food from you instead of submitting to you. If you do it half-heartedly, the dog will keep growling at you next time, and next time, and next time.

If you feign a vicious attack, one that really gets the point across. I mean you don't wait a half of a second after he shows the slightest sign of aggression and you grab him and put him on his back and get in his face and growl while you are staring him in the eyes and you growl like he's just raped your daughter, he'll get the hint that he can't do that.

If you don't, and you give him a little slap on the tush, or something like it, he'll growl again... then you get into a battle with a monster that you created. You MUST do it right the first time, so it is the ONLY time. Unless your dog is crazy he will not want you to attack him like that. And if you raise him lovingly albeit consistently, he will never switch back.

Ashley is a monster around other dogs when food is involved, I thought she was a pup and was ok around our bichon frise coton de tulear mix when she was about 12 weeks old... she almost hurt the dog, luckily the poor thing went limping off while Ashley kept the bone. You will never be able to stop dog aggression when food is involved. Unless you train for 15 mins at a time, 3 times a day, 5 days a week, using baked chicken, when your dog is starving, and you have someone else there with another dog and preferably a well conditioned dog trainer.

 

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^This guy has been trolling this and another thread. Can one of the mods ban him?

 

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LoL I just gave them the best advice I could and you say I'm trolling and ask to have me banned? Weird.

 

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You know, I'll do you one better. You know when someone says I wouldnt have done that if I were him, they are lying. Because if you had their dna, you lived their life and you came to that moment in time you would have done exactly what they did because you were them.

You are talking about banning your own self. I am you in a different body. You are talking to yourself. You are being mean to yourself. We are all one self experiencing our self from different angles... hence angels are angles of Gods light.

The nephilim in the bible where men who took mushrooms and realized they were Gods and they had sex with native women and their offspring were titans, or giants among men, they were leaders of renown within their own ranks and they fought back against their fathers who raped their mothers creating the bast.ard nephilim....

I am very saddened by your display here today... I'm not going to be able to stand this forum's ignorance much longer. If the community here is as dark and evil as the folks who have commented on my posts so far are then I'm leaving on my own accord. I am full of light and love and I love you all. Almost as much as my dogs =P

 

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I have seriously thought about doing this very act. Showing him I'm alpha male and he's not. My question is how ferocious do I be? Do I grab him by the neck, slam him on his back, the look him in the eyes and growl? Should I bite him (how hard?) as well? Then after the attack do I show him affection? I guess re-reading your post it should be ferocious without hurting the dog. Maybe I'll channel my inner demon. Thank you so much for the info and everyone who has contributed to this thread.

 

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I bit my husky's ear when I was 14 and it kinked and stayed flopped over for about 2 hrs, I was worried for a minute there. Never did that again. You just pinch their ear enough that they feel it, he'll let you know right away when he does with a yelp, even adult dogs yelp if you lightly pinch their ear.

Now be careful not to pull or tug on the ear because the cartilage on the outside of the ear is connected to the inner ear drum for when they point their ears in a certain direction and not only is that excruciatingly painful but it can cause them to go deaf and it happens more than you think from stupid people pulling on their dogs ears.

You want to be the devil for a split second without actually physically damaging the dog at all. Just feign/fake an attack as aggressively as you can in a controlled manner and be scary about it, if someone was watching you'd want them to be scared.

You have a pitbull... they demand an owner who is great in all ways. I'm sure since you are hear reading this that you have what it takes in you to be a great leader.

Just remember, pinch lightly NEVER PULL!
Don't hurt the puppy... don't yell in it's ears either.
But be vicious, if this is the only time you are ever vicious in your life, or to this dog, let it be this once, and never again.

It must be the INSTANT you notice ANY LITTLE SIGN of psychic pressure against your will... if you know what I mean. He doesn't even have to growl at you, the second he moves a cm in your direction sideways to put himself between you and the food, grab him by the ruff pick him up a few inches and fast enough that you take his legs out from under him and gently lay him on his back and act like your going to kill him... thats it. Should work out great, and ignore him as soon as you let him up and take his food. Wait 5 mins, not 2 not 3 ... five minutes. It's a perfect amount of time to enforce the waiting period and enforce the love factor.

When you give the food back be nice about it, in a regular tone say, "Here ya go" not high pitched girly voice, not a mean "I just beat you" voice, just completely normal, nice tone of voice, "Here ya go".

Then wait 1 minute exactly leaving the room, and when you walk back in, walk up to him and slowly put your hand down like your going for the food, if he bites at you, get rid of him because he's too old for it to work now and you can't scare him without hurting him.

If you do it right, when you come back in the room he should cower away from the food or at least put his ears back in submission to your presence, which I assume he will do still.

 

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you must watch a lot of cesar millan

 

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You might not believe me, but they called me the dog whisperer before he was on animal planet... swear it... on my dog's life. The kennel was also a horse stable...

 

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The simpel solution is to(smartly wach out for soft spots like belly and his harth behind the shoulder) kick the crap out of him when he thuse that!!. its a matter of showing him ore her who is boss!!. Just like in nature he lives in a wolf pack you need to remind him who is the leader of the pack thats all....... as for dog agression its a fighting dog breed wat do you ecspect......

 

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Dont listen to that guy, dont kick him, dont even touch him, grab him by the ruff of his neck and flip him on his back and tickle his stomach and act like your going to gut him and pinch his ear so he cant bite you if you try to bite him....