Andy ,

Trying Andres' advise certainly can't hurt being your dog is only 6.5 months . But IMO if it doesn't work it's not that big of a deal . Just take the advise of others in this thread and manage your dog .

I have the same problem with my PSD . I got him at 2 yrs old and he is extremely food aggressive . I tried 2 months(2X a day) of the hand feeding training (to bond with the dog and try to curb his food aggression) and as soon as I put the food bowl on the floor the same old food aggression started again . For some dogs their food aggression behavior may be too firmly set . But at 6.5 months that may or may not be the case .

I like others simply feed the dog in a secure setting and leave him alone making sure noone else will come around him while eating . Good Luck .

I have always found that messing with food aggression doesn't help it. I also, with all the things I have to train with my dog, could care less. I have never had a food aggro dog, cause I never mess with their food.

The thing I am wondering is why so many people screw with their dogs food? I mean we all want a strong dog, then do stupid things like take his food away. What are you proving? What are you trying to do?

To me, this is like the people that aggitate their dog with the prong on. What are you trying to do? How about I do your decoy work, and everytime your dog makes a good effort to get to me and gets pinched, I whip chunks of flesh off your stupid faces.

This is all the same thing, and I get sick of reading things like this, or how dare he ignore me. We want the strong dog, but we don't want to deal. Squash squash squash. Look at me I am tougher than my dog. But he has to protect me???????????

Will, I guess you were right about the meds. I must be losing my mind. I have no idea what I was talking about to begin with. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I don't tolerate food aggression towards me from my dogs and never have. My dogs must understand that that is my food, and they will eat when I let them eat. IMO food is a perfect opportunity to display your alpha status to your dog. Just as in the wild the alpha dogs have control over the food first and when they feel like letting the others eat then they eat, and if the alpha decides he wants more they better ante up the food. I don't tolerate it all personally in my home that behavior is matched force with force. If they get really ugly about it thats when I back out and let Jesus have a close talk with them about how to behave in my home. I have found this to be a fairly easy problem to do away with and I have never in many, many dogs had them ever challenge me again over food. However, it is alot easier when their young, unlike Jim getting his PSD at 2yrs old, but I have cleaned that out of older dogs that had that problem also.

Andy, as humans we create problems...sometimes unintentionally, other times just being knuckleheads. I created this problem with my dog at about 4 or 5 months old...my breeder gave me this advise & it may work for you if you feel that you must fix this...show the pup that hands coming towards the food bowl are a good thing by offering something better...beef, liver, venison or whatever you have that you're sure the dog loves more than his daily feed...just walk to the bowl, drop it in and leave her alone. After days or weeks of doing this at each meal, once or twice per meal, hopefully she'll be looking for that hand with a more positive attitude. When you see that behavior consistantly, try it with another adult in the house. If you use the search in this site you may find some tricks to use in combination with this method to fix this ie., eat or pretend to eat her feed before you put it down, standup, place the empty bowl between your feet, drop a small amount of feed in, just enough for her to finish, then repeat till the meal is done. Reinforce the correct behavior by dropping in some goodies a couple of times a week. Give her a quiet, secure place to eat. Leave the prong out for now because it might be making things worse. If all else fails, manage the dog by securing her in a crate or kennel while she eats. With some dogs, a 2x4 will settle certain issues but, I don't believe food agression is one of those issues...I think it's best to secure the dog at meal time & be done with it.
Hope this helps
Luis

This is one where clicker/marker training can be used.

Food Agression. If the dog knows the commands...

Name Watch me dribble a few kibble over the bowl. Marker it. Jackpot to end the session. The praise the dog. A happy dog has no time for aggression. Immediately remove the dog away before removing to bowl. Personally you should have posted as soon as sign of food aggression became apparent. Also praising is highly underrated. My corgi is trained to wait even if food is in the cage. (5 weeks old puppymill read later) Sit and wait at doors. yes and ok to go in. Never go on furniture. Pooping on command.

Prong is a tool to help heeling and training etc. But I think your dog just need to learn some manners and everything will be fine.

jeff123