Unlikely. Dogs understand that monkeypuppies are puppies and like to play, and also generally understand that the human puppy is ranked higher in the pack anyway. Especially big dogs. With the monkeypuppies from *their pack*.
Not unlikely. There are plenty of dogs who will snap reflexively at something tugging away their food. Many dogs won't, but it's not rare enough call 'unlikely.' Sparkindarkness has the measure of it, I think.
There's interesting reading on that to be found on this summary of US dog bite fatalities. Especially the ones where it was a family dog that killed because of an ill-placed warning snap. So while this is a cute gif and all, it's one of those that makes me sort of nervous because I don't know the dog. I wouldn't encourage it with my dog and a baby, even though mine has no resource guarding at all that I've discovered.
When I was young we had family friends with a great dane who was great around children. We only ever heard him growl once, and that was when my sister stepped on his balls when she was climbing on him.
A dog that won't let you take food away from them is a poorly trained dog who needs more work.
Which is not to say that some dogs are like that and will need a LOT more work, but food aggression is a serious, fixable problem. Which means you fix it.
Definitely - but it shows clearly why it's important shelters do check for it (especially since they could get abused or neglected animals which are more likely to be resource guarders)
Probably was a little non-sequitor, but 1 of my colleagues has had to explain WHY the RSPCA checks for resource guarding in a couple of awkward cases and this gif is a perfect example as to why so fired the neurones
Exactly -- and I'd assume the parents taking the video were confident enough in their dog's temperament that they felt this back-and-forth was not sufficiently risky to call it off.
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