Originally Posted by poisongirl

Yeah, I am touching him while he is eating, I did the exact same with Dixie when she was Dave's age and she has no food agression atall, my 3yr old can even take a chew off her (even tho he is not suppose to!).

This evenings meal went fine, I think where I was going wrong before was letting him think He owned the food in the dish, I just asked him to sit then put it infront of him then left him to it most of the time.
Now I make him sit and wait until I say 'ok' and I can now walk over and 'claim' the space the bowl is in he will back off a few steps and sit, wait for me to 'ok' him..

I don't want to add something extra tasty to his meal, we have just stopped giving him scraps at night as it made him not eat his dinner cos he was looking for the extra tasty bits! I just need him to know that me stroking and being close to him is good and he wont eat if he is being aggressive..

I don't want him to think he can growl at me and I leave him alone, i don't want him to growl atall, I need him to know that nothing 'belongs' to Him, and that Everything belongs to me.
He doesn't have access to toys at all times they are kept in a drawer (mostly because Dix will repetitively fetch!) he gets given a kong or a chew and a few toys in his pen when he is to be left.

Well I taught him the 'leave' command today and I have to say it has made a difference. If I wanted something off him before I usually had to catch him and take it off him. Now I can walk up to him, I guess in a different state of mind, like I own the think I want and say 'leave' and he will sit.

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