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The tendency to watch over prized objects grows and takes root in a dog during its puppyhood. Few things can possibly be cuter than a Havanese puppy gloating while curled around a bone, or a tennis ball. Nevertheless, this behavior is normally not suppose to be lost in a dog. Being social and pack animals, dogs tend to be protective, since they are very much aware that if something gets lost, there are nil chances of recovering them.
From the experience of Havanese Training, bitches are observed to guard more often than the males. The male dogs, in turn, have plenty of guarding tendencies among those of middle rank. It has also been found that object guarding is a sign of just how confidence there is in a dog. Therefore, the most likely to share a bone or a food bowl are the top dogs that are confident about their sense of property.
For the emotional health of the puppy, owners would do well to check closely on whether there have been many instances of food and items being taken away from the puppy, and not giving it back. Owners who were admittedly prone to getting things from the dog may then be able to explain the many instances when the dog would run away and hide an object, or would growl and snarl, etc.
The next instant that a dog owner is stumped how to respond to guarding behavior, a dog trainer is one of the best sources of information of how best to manage the dog's behavior. There is comfort in the fact that this concern can actually still worsen, where the dog desires imposing its dominance. There is really a lot of hassle that can be prevented when dog owners start training the dog from puppyhood. For example, there is no more need to retrain an adult havanese, and to risk it out in complicated and tense training procedures.
Among an owners' responsibilities are the need to ensure that the puppy forms a solid and healthy love for chew toys. If the dog bonds in a healthy way with the chew toys, the dog would not get attached to wrong household items to call its own. Take time also to train the dog to not get attached to chew toys, and to be willing to give them up when asked to do so.
We cannot also miss seeing things from the lens of positive based Havanese Training, which say that you will need to train your puppy to think that every time it gives up an item, it can get something even better, like a treat or reward, and perhaps too, the prized item sometime later.
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