Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. Okay, we're talking resource guarding and I know Karen, you are

joining me today to share with all of our listeners how it is really living with a resource garden,

living with a dog who

really does have some fairly extreme resource guarding examples, but also a dog who is lovable,

who plays games, who games have really transformed him in so many ways. And yet, you still have a

level of resource guarding in there that definitely needs managing and sometimes on a daily basis. Tell us about it. So yeah, so he's a brilliant job. He's so much fun. He

loves games. He loves tricks. He loves everything that we do here. And he will still struggle with

disengagement as a concept. So the ability to kind of leave things alone, let things go,

and in the sense of resources that can manifest as hovering over stuff, growling if you go

near him when he's got something that he thinks he should have, that you might be

want back or don't think he should have. He has bitten, not frequently, but he has, and I know it's in there.

So day-to-day, it's a question of managing his environment in terms of not putting in

situations where there are things he can get hold of that I don't want him to have or things

that are not safe for him to have.

And then also skilling him up so that even if disengagement is not his biggest skill,

there are alternative ways we can deal with it.

So if he's got something, I know, for example, that I can turn this into a game

or effectively turn us into a trick that he enjoys and then flip it flip the story really and then

I can get the thing back but not because he thinks he's given up the thing and it's so

interesting hearing that from an owner's perspective because I know that you are a really

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