Member Ryan
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My 10 week old husky was doing something very similar when I first brought him home. There was no grass where he was bred, and he went nuts around grass for the first few days. He still loves grass 3 weeks later, but has since stopped the psycho grass eating binges. Riggan’s post is amazing and so much good advice there. After the first few days my pup has gone into insane ripping grass mode maybe 3-4 times, and they very possibly were induced by frustration, being overwhelmed, tired ect. If the problem was very bad, which I’m lucky it is not, I would be very in tune with the emotional state of your dog when he gets into this mode, or identify as Riggan said, if you are the one inducing this in some way. There are two things I’ve done when my pup does this now. I either remove him instantly from the setting so the behavior cannot be rehearsed. This is also virtually the only behavior I have corrected so far. Once he went nuts with grass, and I would use positive punishment and mark the behavior with a verbal correction, and grab him by the scruff to the point of discomfort every time he ate the grass, and he eventually stopped but he wasn’t thrilled about it. Maybe just getting him out of there is better. I’m not a pro at this, but I think my pup is totally fine with physical corrections at that level, be sure you pup isn’t sensitive here first.
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These are great questions. I am a few months out from getting a husky and have attempted to find some resources addressing these questions. This video offers a different perspective than the majority of content I’ve found on this topic.
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How sure are we that we need be able to remove anything at any time from your dog’s possession? I’ve heard the same thing. You are saying that you want to be able to remove any item from your dog’s possession, not matter his level of fixation, by reaching in with your hand without warning and not having your dog respond aggressively.
So if your dog does not know what “leave it” or “drop it” means, and they do not leave or drop something when commanded, that is not because of resource guarding but due to not being educated.
If your dog does know “leave it” or “drop it”, and does it with low value items, but then deliberately disobeys the command with high value items then what do you do?
I don’t see much practical reason to need to be able to reach in with your hands and remove something from the dog. Once the dog knows leave it, you can deliver the command and take the item, rather than just reaching in when they are super fixated without warning, which seems to be stressing Mofu out. I understand that ideally your dog does not resource guard and you can happily remove any item at any time without a negative response. But since your dog does exhibit strong resource guarding behavior, is there merit to not stressing him out by trying to take away his item?