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|Articles|August 26, 2009

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Your daily dose of clinical tips and quips: Food-related aggression.

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“One common recommendation is to take the food bowl away periodically as the pup eats. However, in my experience, the only thing that this action teaches the pup is that something undesirable is likely to happen when people approach as it is eating—they may snatch the food.”

-Jacqueline C. Neilson, DVM, DACVB

From How I treat food-related aggression in dogs

 

 


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