I just had an incident this morning with Gull, where he had something in his mouth, that I didn't know what it was. I could tell by his body language and how he was reacting to the other dogs that it was something precious though.

So I went up to him and calmly asked him what he had and then kneeled down and started petting him. Then I gently opened his mouth and was quite surprised to find he had a cooked chicken bone. He let me have it without any issue and I told him what a wonderful boy he was for giving up something so valuable, then went straight to the kitchen and got him a treat.

It's somewhat of a confusing subject, because that was an instance where I felt what he had in his mouth was dangerous for him. It's not often that I take something away from them, but there is a time where I do need to. So if you don't train them that they need to give things upto you from time to time, how do you handle that type of situation? As puppies, I always reward them for giving food and bones upto me and it's worked pretty good so far.

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