If it is severe food agression, it is going to take several months of working a specific schedule with specific steps. I can post all those later.
If it is not as severe, here are some tips:
- Make sure he always has 3 or more bowls of food when you feed him. That way he'll learn the food isn't going anywhere and he'll always have plenty of it.
- Whenever a human gets near him while he's eating, he needs to have a positive experience. Get a really good treat and offer it to him while he's eating. Don't stick your hand in the bowl right away, but have it near him so he can smell the treat. Try getting your hand closer and closer every day until you can put it in his food bowl and he won't growl or get aggressive. Eventually you want to be able to pick his bowl up, put the treat it, then give it back to him. Its important he always knows his bowl is going to come back.
After you can do all of that, it should be repeated with several different people. I would not let your brothers do it until you're absolutely positive he will not bite.
Alyson
Shiloh, Reece, Lolly, Skylar
and fosters Snickers, Missy, Magic, Merlin, Maya
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