Want to start by saying that we already have a professional trainer that we are working with on this. I’m not necessarily looking for advice how to stop it just looking for common ground because I’m emotional lol.
I have a 5.5 month old female golden retriever. She’s great with training because she’s EXTREMELY food driven. We started taking her to a trainer around 4 months for basic training skills and because she started food aggression. She doesn’t do it towards me or my husband (she listens best to me but I’m a SAHM so it makes sense) but she does it to my 4 year old son and my senior dog. The trainer explained it’s basically because she looks at them as easy targets and knows she can’t get away with it with us and trusts us more (she worded it way better but I honestly don’t remember her exact wording 😂).
The trainer recommended that our son feed our puppy (with us right there of course) to get our puppy used to him around her food. We of course give her the space that she needs but my son can’t even be near her eating area without her snapping (he is not right by her and I of course keep him safe distance to respect both her boundaries etc etc).
We are still working on the trainer with all of this I’m just really emotional about it. I know she’s an animal and nothing is her fault and it’s our job to train her and this and that, I just have never had a food aggressive dog before so I feel very scared she’ll get aggressive with my son or senior dog in different ways.
Anyone also going through this?
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