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Thankyou! We have our work cut out 😮

This explains guarding perfectly. Ive got a rescue red lab 2 1/2 years sits and waits perfectly for food yet when he steals stuff or if i try and put ear drops in he goes ballistic, barks, runs off, growls and if pushed then snaps. I know the previous owners traded everything for treats but we now have a dog that expects a vast amount of daily treats and is overweight.Last owners also allowed couch and slept on their bed (didnt have his own bed) and still believe he had no issues and thought this behavior was totally normal. Its a hard battle!

How can you talk about how to fix resource guarding with a video of a dog that doesn’t show this attitude. Sorry but your video has no benefit for some of us that are already dealing with a dog that shows resource guarding.

My dog has started barking in the garden for about a month now. Drives me nuts as I live in the city & have neighbours all around... This looks brilliant, will try this and update in a few weeks 😀

Hi there this is My second message to you and I really hope that you post some more recent videos because the more you post and the more I share your videos you can actually make good money on CZcams, I’m the one who made the mistake, letting the dog sleep in the bed The problem is and the answer is to put a bed in the kitchen and have her start sleeping there so my cats the four of them can sleep in the bed. The problem is I live in a building and the dog will bark excessively even if I put distractions in the kitchen, such as a plastic mat with frozen peanut butter on it. How do I break this vicious cycle of my dog guarding the bed or me or the toys in which I will get rid of all of that for now I really need your advice.

Hi there people are dumping their animals in Florida so I found a Shih Tzu one year old and I have four cats that are used to sleeping in the bed whenever they feel like it and getting all of the attention. I really need your advice because I have come along way with desensitizing the dog with the four cats, but unfortunately, the dog sleeps in my bed and constantly barks guarding the bed or me. Of course I made the mistake because the dog was abandoned and every time I would try to get her not to sleep with me all she would do is bark except she does really well. When I need to leave the house, I am retired and would love all the advice you have to share, my goal is to be able to have the cats in the bed but this one year old Shih Tzu barks excessively when any cats are nearby, any advice would be so appreciative, and I am so grateful but I do realize this video was made a few years ago

I think my dog would have been more well behaved if my partner/ boyfriend wasn't living here. My dog is a clothing thief.

Ooooh,,..it's my Rhodesian Ridgeback Belo's 2nd birthday today, and I'm off out to shop for this. He's going to love it and I love it that you mentioned to give gifts, which I'll do too. So gorgeous 🙂

Our one year old golden Pyrenees is starting to gaurd our sons room where she sleeps sometimes and now the couch where she sits a lot. She is going after are little dog who is ten years old. She has started going after our kitten that walks by the couch. And has gone after the other animals when we are standing around eating. Keep in mind we are a family of 8. We have 6 kids from 16-8. The way she has been going after the dog is escalating. Getting scary. We are trying to keep them separated when they are in the house.

What would you suggest if the puppy ignores any treats or toys so the distraction doesn't work?

Brings back some nice memories. Lived there 40 odd years ago.

Great video! Im sure i can get my 1 year old male jack russel to behave like this demonstration but what do i do if im out the back garden with him on the lead and someone walks past the gate or a neighbours dog starts barking?? Those two things set him off immediatley! Do i just take him straight back inside?? Or keep trying to distract him from the reactive thins around? Thanks

We have had our puppy for 3 weeks, we have done the wrong thing by bringing her into our bedroom, how can we change this so she sleeps in her crate ?

Too much explanations & not enough demostrations

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My 6 month old cockapoo has just started guarding with items he steals never does it with toys or food. And it’s difficult to get it back

This is great advice that I've just been given by a behaviorist for my border collie .

Thank you, I will be trying this with our 5 month old cavapoo. The problem is, as soon as he's come back in, he wants to go back out again. What to do then? I can't get anything done when he's like that and can't spend all day outside with him on a lead. Should I just ignore then or do you have another video about barking in the house please? This one has been super useful! Thank you x

I'm confused about the not going to her at night when she has to go potty. Isn't that what you are supposed to do?

Hi Nick, we’ve got an 8 week old cockerpoo puppy, on the first night he woke up around 6am and we had come down to a fresh morning poo in the crate, we have then been coming down in the morning around 5:40, at this point he is still asleep and he then wakes up as we come into the room and he will whine a little bit, we wait for him to stop then take him out to go toilet, he then comes back in and goes back to bed for short while… My question is, should we be waiting for him to wake up naturally and then for us to go down and let him out or are we okay going into the room and him waking up because of us coming down and then letting him out?

Many missed opportunities to bond with dog by feeding from hand

I’ve taken on a dog that for the first time ever for me, resource guards. As I can see it. She feeds well with others. She even travels & sleeps well with others. She happily shows the other dogs her favourite toy but as soon as it’s on the floor she guards. The ball however she even growls at me. At first she went for me but I took it any way & took it away. Her favourite toy which is a squeaky duck toy. She doesn’t squeak it but she happily gives it up for me to see & give it back. This sprocker is 18 months & has been treated like a princess at last home. She wants to be above everyone. We have a no furniture rule at ours for every dog. My three spanners are very good with other dogs, they give others space & behave appropriately around others. Very calm & very mannerly. Very chilled in our house. Mabel is nervous & at the moment she’s still after three weeks, figuring out her own feelings but we have a strict routine & all come to work with me as a gardener everyday. She is socialised with a muzzle on but muzzle is only for socialisation. Just so she can meet others without me having to take a hold of the lead when she greets others. I’ve slowly been gently stroking to the areas around her problem issues but she did have matting that I spent time gently & in time taking out. We make game with her touching my hand with her paws for praise & the difficult areas, a treat. I have her on food appropriate for her & she has no free rein all the time. There are only certain places I allow her off for a run, but long walks on a long lead & lead work as well as work with me has helped a lot with feeling more chilled. The only issue so far is just the dropped toy or weirdly, greeting again, my dogs. All are the same sex too. We don’t play games, the others do but she is on a lead just watching with me whilst the others play so she can be close but she learns to be calm & keep anxiety levels down. Great post. Very helpful.

I have a 21 month old working Cocker Spaniel, who we rescued 3 months ago. She started the crazy running around the garden barking every time she goes out about a month into having her. I have been taking her into the garden on lead at night ever since to avoid the noise when neighbours kids are in bed next door. So will make this a habit to do everytime she goes out in the garden to hope she learns not to do it. The only problem is, I am a Dog Boarder and there are days when I have lots of dogs at home and now that the weather is better the door is open and they are in the garden a lot more. Bali then barks as she's playing, so I'm getting her in whenever she does this as I do not want to annoy the neighbours. Is there a way to also prevent the barking when she's playing, or am I just going to have to continue to get her in whenever it happens? She gets two good hour long walks per day, and playtime with the other dogs as well, so gets a lot of exercise.

I took over care of my elderly parents' 10-year-old 55-pound Portuguese Water Dog and had to train him to sleep in a crate. He was used to sleeping with them, hogging the whole middle of the bed, and getting up once or twice a night. The first night was miserable. I did sleep on the floor next to him because I knew it was such a shock in his routine. The second night I slept on the sofa in the same room as him. The third night I slept in my own bed. As a compromise, I did get up at 5am for the first couple of weeks, then worked my way back to 6:30, which is when I had to get up anyway. After the first week, he stayed dry all night. I discovered that peanut butter in a kong toy was a magic bullet for getting him to run to the crate. I saved it for bedtimes only. He had a favorite blanky he snuggled with in the crate and after that first week of misery, he was very happy. He's been gone for about six months now and I'm thinking about a puppy. Your video is very sensible and compassionate. Thank you.

The problem I am having with my 6 month old isn't that she resource guards regular things like toys but its things she shouldn't have as if she knows I don't want her having them, like something has fallen off the side be it a piece of plastic, paper etc and she will back off from me and make a faint "huff" unless I offer a high value treat that gets her attention and quickly take item away she will guard it but not bite me as such but may gently mouth, the outdoors is the extreme though, she picks up and eats and swallows so much especially stones and pebbles but any thing like old food even if rotten is appealing to her and if I call her and/or say leave it she will turn her face away from me and quickly chew and swallow before I can distract her, offering a treat does nothing and thats if I have it ready in time, often she will pick up a stone as she walks into my home (outside my house is a area with decorative pebbles and stones, its a shared entrance with neighbours) and I have mostly worked out how to distract her enough to not pick one up and if she does she mostly drops it if I give her even a small treat and quickly move away, big items like what happened today nothing distracts her, she picked up something big on walk just outside house and no amount of treats distracted her and she ran away from me each time I got close so I had to do the dangerous act of putting my hand near her (with other hand full of treats and grab it out of her mouth, she lunged at me and nipped hand which made me drop the item and when she went to get it off floor I showed her my other hand but she bared her teeth and barked and bit my hand and gave a "dent" in the skin, not enough to make it bleed but just enough I have 3 tiny (like less than mm each wide) scratches on my hand. I want to get her out of this behaviour when shes still young but as its outdoor she has the problem with I don't know what to do

So at 8 weeks you dont worry about Parvo and other diseases ?

Thank you! Very helpful information.

You are so lucky to have the two older dogs showing her the way.

First of all, I appreciate that you take the time to answer most questions in the comments. I have a ridgeback pup of 6 months old and she goes absolutely crazy in the garden. The first weeks I always went with her to the garden, but I think my mistake was that I did not do this long enough. Now she barks at people walking by or just at random. I do think it has to do with some anxiety (tense stature and hairs upright) What do I do? She does wait on my command to go outside and I already tried letting her out on a leash. When she barks I would go back inside let her calm down and on my command she can go back in the garden (on a lead) and repeat this. Even this doesn't seem to help. Some people say that I should distract her with exercises or a toy. Any tips?

WOW..MAX is FEARLESS & GORGEOUS.

Our rescue dog is between 2 and 3. He's a hound and constantly chases and barks at the birds nesting in our garden. Will this work to stop him barking at the birds? Thanks so much for all of your videos

Are red nose pitbulls banned in the uk?

I've got 2 English Staffys. Sarge is a 20 month old, well exercised, behaved and gentle temperament...until we got 10 week old Major. Sarge and Major play very well together and tolerates the puppy teething, but Sarge has nipped Major a few times over ALL toys and has started to resource guard. Now I keep them separate when playing with toys, but Sarge drops his favourite toys & is HYPER fixated on ANYTHING Major has. What else can I do???

Hello Nick great video albeit 10 years old, you mention in the clip a video on the introduction of the whistle can you please point me to it as I can not spot it, thanks Deano

Can any one help me !!! Me dogs keep trying to go for me everytime we sit on the couch ??

Do u lock the puppy in a crate overnight as I thought u shouldn't do that? I'm getting a new puppy on Monday, our first to be honest do I'm looking at pointers to train her correctly.

Is Ruby a toy poodle? We are getting one this week. Really enjoying your videos 👍

Thank you, interesting you started from Dog Lane - can you park free there? Lovely video - nice dog and I did like the rich colors, nature sounds and scenery and the Severn. I visited Bewdley over the weekend and I want to move near there.

Yeah I had a jack russell who was so friendly he’d literally follow people home. The 2 people he followed home , 1 had groceries and he followed the smell from the bag. She said he crashed on her couch all night, and just sat there. She said he made her want a dog. The other lady happened when he escaped and she picked him up and took him home. She said she fed him. He wasn’t aggressive, so she was standing outside our house waiting for us to come home. We drove around looking for him, and when we got back, she was holding him. It was so funny.

When we got a chihuahua puppy 15 years ago he cried and cried so we couldn’t get sleep. My husband wanted her in our bed to get sleep and felt bad he was crying. He then slept in our bed for almost rest of his life. Our next puppy we plan on changing the bad habits we made with our past chihuahua.

Hi Nick, I have read a lot of articles that suggest leaving a puppy to cry for long periods in its crate can cause alot of distress. Also an 8 week old can only hold pee for up to 3hrs. Our puppy goes to the toilet frequently throughout the day so I don’t want to cause the puppy distress by sleeping amongst its own mess at night. are you recommending not going down at all?

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Thank you for all these videos! So so helpful! Is there any way of talking to you directly regarding new pup please? 😊

I love your videos! It inspired us to do the same with our dog on youtube. Your dog is always so cheerful and happy and the scenery is so relaxing. Keep up the good work!

If the dog is alone at home can the door outside be left open for him to go to the toilet? Will that affect the training exercise?

Thanks for your videos--they are so helpful! How much sleep does an eight-week puppy need during the daytime? Do you put Ruby in her crate at regular intervals for a nap? Or just wait until she falls asleep, then put her in her crate for a nap? I will be getting a Cockapoo puppy soon, and I know puppies need quite a bit of sleep, but I don't want to let her sleep so much during the day that she is awake all night.

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Our 10 mo old dog has recently started trying to fight our 3 yr old dog at meal times, and really any time he gets overly excited. We are trying to manage that by keeping them separate at meal times and paying very close attention to when he gets overstimulated, which is helping (but still kind of there). However at the dog park yesterday he started a fight with another dog over a ball, which he has never done before. Additionally, at day care twice in the last week he has humped our 3 yr old dog repeatedly to the point we cannot take them to daycare together. If they separate them at daycare the 10 mo old gets major separation anxiety regarding the other dog. He also doesn't hump any other dog, nor has he humped any dog in front of us. They are separated most of the day with no issues. Any help is appreciated!

Is Ruby a F1B cockapoo?

So very helpful! On behalf of myself & beloved 4 legged young one. 🐾