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A practical how-to guide on resource guarding - food bowl, object, bed, crate, owner, etc. - in dogs. Contents include: aggression basics, nature of resource guarding, kinds of resource guarding, behaviorist vs. medical models, recognizing guarding, prognosis, safety tools, treatment overview, management, desensitization and counterconditioning, resource sample hierarchies, generalization, troubleshooting, body handling desensitization, operant conditioning.
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Dogs that become demonic around the food dish, snarly on the sofa or grouchy when chewing on a bone are all-too-common.Finally, here's a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to help you recognize, evaluate and treat resource guarding in pet dogs.From the author of The Culture Clash, this book may just save your sanity and your relationship with your pet pooch."A totally comprehensive and practical treatment of a common and very serious behavior problem. Jean Donaldson translates complex animal learning theory into useable procedures---without sacrificing scientific accuracy. Anyone who works with dogs will benefit from reading MINE!" Suzanne Hetts, PhD, author of Pet Behavior Protocols
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