Game On Dog Training

Yup, that’s our toilet in a featured photo…I’ll explain..

Wiggle will guard resources like food, mostly at doggy meal times. He has never hurt anyone, but he does display his worry about food with much gusto, and I am grateful for that. It was a really clear message for me! That message wasn’t that I needed to train this behaviour out of him. The message I received, loud and clear, was that he needs extra space from the other dogs in the home at doggy meal time. The best way to stop a dog fight is to prevent it from happening in the first place. That means, in this scenario, I bring Wiggle in the bathroom and then start taking dog food out. He is grateful for my attention to this detail, he displays this by calmly and quietly heading down a gated hallway to the bathroom to patiently wait for me to fill his various enrichment feeders.

This management tool (the bathroom) helps to prevent Wiggle from rehearsal of undesirable behaviour and it lets him eat while feeling safe! That’s a win for the the whole household.
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Hope everyone had a good weekend with their crew 😎
📷 left to right: Lucy, Bridgette, Charlie, Wolfgang, Bugsley, Zeke (partially hidden)