05-15-2017, 11:41 AM
(05-15-2017, 07:43 AM)Catherine Wrote: I don't understand the fuss about food aggression. Of course dogs are going to defend their food. What would you expect them to do. I would never put my hand near an animal that is eating. I don't understand why that is seen as a problem. I would consider it normal behavior.
Misty would have been more food anxious because of her street experience, but surely no dog would let anyone touch their food.
We seem to share the same feeling about that, Catherine.
I wouldn't be too happy with some other person coming up to MY food either and messing with it when I was eating! I am likely to snap at them! It is impolite to make moves towards someone else's food. It's no different for dogs.
(I left Misty to eat in peace when I fed her. Only on the odd occasion I might pick up her dish to add something to it. She never minded whatever I did like that, and just looked up at me with a trusting hopeful look. But that didn't happen often.)
Re-homing programs do make food aggression a point on which the dog has to score a 'pass'. I always find that a bit sad.
