To correct the dog's habit of guarding food, you can feed it with your hands to let the dog know that the owner will not compete with it for food. First put the food in the palm of your hand and feed it. After the dog gets used to it, then put the food into the bowl with your hand and feed it. Finally, try to pet the dog while it is eating and take away the food bowl. During the training process, if the dog behaves in a rebellious or aggressive manner, the owner must stop it promptly and sternly. In addition, if the usual feeding time is not fixed, or there are multiple dogs at home, you can also use the method of regular, quantitative and separate feeding to correct the dog's food protection habit. But be careful not to use violence to correct it, otherwise the dog’s food-protecting behavior may become more serious.

1. Change the feeding method

To correct the dog's habit of protecting food, you can try feeding with your hands and continue for 5-7 days. Because this feeding method allows the dog to understand that the hand will bring food, instead of competing with it for food.

After the dog becomes familiar with hand-feeding, you can change to putting food into the bowl with your hands before feeding, and keep feeding in small amounts and multiple times. This is done to get the dog accustomed to the owner's hand being near its food bowl. After the dog no longer resists the owner's hand touching the dog bowl, you can pet the dog while it is eating and try to take away the dog bowl. If the dog still guards its food, you need to repeat the step of putting the food in the bowl with your hands until the dog no longer guards its food.

During training, if the dog makes a warning growl, the owner must stop it with a serious tone, and then calm it down to increase the dog's trust in the owner.

2. Feed regularly, quantitatively and separately

Understanding the reasons why dogs guard their food can correct this bad habit more effectively.

If the dog’s food protection is due to frequent hunger due to not eating on time, the owner should provide the dog with enough food every day and insist on regular and quantitative feeding. If there are multiple dogs at home, and they usually compete for food, it is easy for the dogs to guard their food, and the owner needs to separate them before feeding them.

Note: The dog’s habit of guarding food cannot be completely corrected in a day or two, so the owner needs to be patient enough during this process and must not use violent means, which will make the dog guard his food. The food condition worsened and the owner completely lost trust.