Does your dog steal food? Does your dog jump on counters? If so, you need to work on this with your puppy!

We call this process "Claiming" food from your dog. Claiming food works extremely well because it is how dogs communicate with each other!

In this video our trainer teaches a dog to ignore lunch meat on the floor. Generally speaking we are ok with dogs eating lunch meat, but as owners, we need to have control over what's going in our dog's mouths! When something falls on the ground, your dog eating it quickly can be an inconvenience (if it was dinner) but also can be extremely harmful (pills)!

The more well trained your dog is the better. If they have a good grasp of heel, obedience, and our correction process, then claiming food is a lot easier. In this video, the dog we are working with just recently started training. So yes, it is teachable to dogs who are not fully trained yet. Claiming space works well as most dogs respond well to body pressure, a combination of body language, and eye contact. If your dog is too excitable around food, we typically would use our heel command to calm the dog first! Remember, we expect mistakes!

Once a dog understands the concepts that we discussed in this video, we will eventually work off leash, but there is no rush here. We do not typically use obedience commands during the process, as we do not want to rely on a command being given if something falls randomly. Before removing the leash, it is important to try this with a few different food items. You can also make this more difficult by dropping the food closer and closer to your dog.

We hope this video inspires you to work on this with your dog! Thousands of dogs either die each year or need stomach surgery due to ingestion of items they are not supposed to have! Working on this at a young age will help prevent this from happening, and is one major step in the right direction to raise the best puppy ever!

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Chapters
00:00 Overview of Claiming food
02:56 Advancing to Off Leash
03:47 Mistakes Are Okay!
04:34 Claiming vs. Obedience

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