Cesar is just looking for confrontation - Gizmo even backs off and sits, which would be a perfect time to let him get the food - but it seems that Cesar just wants to push the dog until he bites to make things look 'good' for the TV
Dogs guard food because they dont trust that they are safe to eat unmolested
Teach them that you are a trustworthy person and your hands bring them nice things
Teach children to leave dogs alone when they are eating
Noone needs to be bitten
Cesar was trying to get the dog to be fully submitted to him. It's obvious the dog was not. Hence the bite. A fully submitted dog will not bite a hand slowly moving in front of their face. Cesar was not satisfied with this partial submission, and was willing to patiently work with the dog. He wasn't "hamming it up" for the network ratings. He was being a true pack leader. I sat for 1 hour with a dog who was "faking" submission with him laying on his side. You have to out-wait stubbornness, not try to hurry up the process. You can't "microwave" submission. You have to wait.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, thankyou for your comments.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid I have to disagree, if you look at some of my other posts you will see examples of how people can train food guarding without being bitten.
Thousands of trainers deal with this every day and good trainers do not risk injury for themselves or the owners. I can see you are a fan of Cesars way but I recomend that you have a look at some different trainers as well. Victoria Stillwell has studied and learnt alot since her origonal shows and the USA one is really good. Books like 'dont shoot the dog' and 'in defense of dogs' are really interesting reads if you like to know what is going on in your dogs head - and explaining how we are not dominant to our dogs, we are a different species, and how dogs learn from what is rewarding and what is punishing - not who is the boss