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by momosgarage on 27 July 2011 - 17:07
There has been a story recently about someone poisoning dogs in California:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/07/27/1697335/3-dog-poisonings-reported-in-los.html
This got me thinking back to the way my grandfather proofed his dogs to not take food from strangers, AKA Konrad Lorenz style. Seemed overkill back then when I was a kid, but seems to have been a good idea in retrospect. Any pros, cons, tips, experiences with training your dogs to only take food from thier handlers?
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/07/27/1697335/3-dog-poisonings-reported-in-los.html
This got me thinking back to the way my grandfather proofed his dogs to not take food from strangers, AKA Konrad Lorenz style. Seemed overkill back then when I was a kid, but seems to have been a good idea in retrospect. Any pros, cons, tips, experiences with training your dogs to only take food from thier handlers?
by Niesia on 29 July 2011 - 02:07
Back in Poland I did the same with my dog. She would eat only if the specific ‘bowl trick’ was performed. Can’t tell what trick, as it is only between me and my dog. The ‘bowl trick’ worked for me because anybody who knew the trick could feed my dog, not only me. (The 'bowl trick' could be for example: "set the bowl down with your right hand, use your left hand and move the bowl to the left. Command 'safe'. ) Good guard dogs would be poisoned by burglars if not trained this way. My grandmother’s GSD died from being poisoned.
In old school training you would tint the food with special herbs that made the dog gag. Food from hand was always bad. Unfortunately this kind of training makes dog suspicious of all food and treats given by people. It convinces the dog that only ‘safe’ food is in a bowl that a person did a ‘bowl trick’ with. Surprisingly dogs learn it very fast. BUT you can’t do the treat training with the dog that you trained this way…
I personally am intending on doing similar training on my new puppy, but I won’t start it until he is fully grown, socialized and well obedience trained. This is stressful kind of training. He has to learn that trusting people with food or picking something from any other place than ‘safe bowl’ has bad consequences.
There are different techniques in trying to teach the dog not to accept food from strangers, but this is only one that I know is a bulletproof. Dogs I knew, that were trained on tinted food, would never ever even sniff a bloody steak or marrow bone unless it’s been presented correctly and therefore was ‘safe’ to eat.
In old school training you would tint the food with special herbs that made the dog gag. Food from hand was always bad. Unfortunately this kind of training makes dog suspicious of all food and treats given by people. It convinces the dog that only ‘safe’ food is in a bowl that a person did a ‘bowl trick’ with. Surprisingly dogs learn it very fast. BUT you can’t do the treat training with the dog that you trained this way…
I personally am intending on doing similar training on my new puppy, but I won’t start it until he is fully grown, socialized and well obedience trained. This is stressful kind of training. He has to learn that trusting people with food or picking something from any other place than ‘safe bowl’ has bad consequences.
There are different techniques in trying to teach the dog not to accept food from strangers, but this is only one that I know is a bulletproof. Dogs I knew, that were trained on tinted food, would never ever even sniff a bloody steak or marrow bone unless it’s been presented correctly and therefore was ‘safe’ to eat.
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