Train Your Dog To Take Food Nicely

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• dog
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• clicker
• food
• snatching
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[angele223]

My dog is ok with taking treats nicely out of the hand, but he tries to snatch it from me when i'm using it as a lure and he is quite chompy..how would you go about teaching him not to do that?

[zsianz1]

@angele223 if he takes the food nicely the rest of the time have you thought about training him to target something with his nose and then use the target to lure him? so long as you reward him every time his nose makes contact with the target he should follow the target round as keenly as he does a piece of food without the danger of snatching for it. hope that is some help :)

[mayaismo]

Oops..And there was my mistake.I gave him the tasty treat from the hand.That was my ignorance of trying to take the shortcut..I'll try it again tommorow (this time exactly the way you've shown) and I'll let you know how r we getting on.

Thank you so much for your help and patience.. xxx

[zsianz1]

@mayaismo no problem, be sure and let me know how it goes :-) xxx

[mayaismo]

Hello there Sian! I am training this dog and he is acctually very cruel when it comes to taking food from my hand..

I tried your method on him but what he learned was - ''when I touch the carrot with my teeth I get a treat" He mouths it delicately - so I click ,and give him treat.But he almost bites my hand off when his reaching for it..He thinks that mouthing the carrot is what I wanted...

Please help :(

[zsianz1]

@mayaismo do you place the treat (the tasty one) onto the floor as a reward? because this is what you will need to do so as not to get the old behaviour back. also, don't get stuck with the carrot too long, you need to move onto something of higher value now that he is just mouthing that, try a very non smelly, bland dry dog food, or maybe bread, you will have to find something that he isn't too interested in but that he likes better than the carrot. hope that helps :-)

[josski32]

Awewww she's soooo cutee

[Supercucu123]

My dog is batshit insane about carrots.

[Indiana1384]

This is great! You're a lifesaver!!!



[xXnatiaXx]

it's border colli ?

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

my dog is gentle, she can even take food which is being held from the other end in my mouth and she will gently grab the other end and pull. also when you give her things by hand, she'll distinctly just calm down and slow down and its more like your handing her it like you would to another human, but her mouth is slow and articulate and closes at the speed of a hand going to grab it. once she knows its totally in her possession, she goes nuts.

[pamelamarxsen]

Sian, I just saw this video and I am so loving it! What a GREAT idea! I love it and will be using it in my group classes. THANK YOU! Pam

[junkjanedoe]

cool

[chicagocanine]

What do you do if your dog starts to grab for the food after a few repetitions? She was being gentle at first with the first item (I used pieces of green pepper because she likes carrots) but then she started grabbing for it, and after several reps she started eating the pepper pieces...