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My Dog turned vicious with treats!! Help Needed!!

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Hi, we have two female Shar peis nearly two. In general both dogs are lovely and have nice temperaments APART from one of the dogs Mimi who is very aggressive when it comes to having treats not her regular food just treats.
We have noticed this before if she has any sort of treat and you go anywhere near her she starts growling and barking and sort of jumps at you. But yesterday she had a treat and my friend noticed there was blood on it so I went to lean over her to have a look I didn't even get near it and she started growling snarling jumping up and going for me she bit my stomach ( I am six months pregnant) in fairness it wasn't very hard but enough to leave a small mark/bruise!! But had I not grabbed her and the other dog then sort of jumped at her it would of been a lot worse.She has never gone this far before. She then went for the other dog this is the first time this has ever happened too. At this stage I was able to grab her and just held her on floor she then calmed down finished the treat and I put her outside.


We have thought about how to deal with this, such as banning treats or giving them to her in a
separate room but this is not my main concern. My main concern is if I am cooking and drop something on floor and she is there she reacts in same way. If a child drops a treat or any kind of similar situation in future and she reacts like she just did we just cant have it so banning treats would help but is not an answer.


So I guess I am asking if you could advise us on what we could do if you have had a similar dog.


She doesn't think she is the 'alpha dog' either in anyway so I do not think that it was we are dealing with if anything it would be the other dog Roxy she follows her etc. She listens to us and in general a big soppy lovely dog its ONLY with treats she turns in to this. When we are out its the Roxy who more dominant in every way so we just don't know what to do.


Is this something we can change in her???
 
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I think you need to go back to basics and teach 'leave it'. I'd start this by using something she's not too bothered about. This will help stopping her before she actually gets the treat. Once this is established and you allow her to 'take it' ask her to 'leave it' again and swap her for a higher value treat. Hopefully, given time and practice she will associate you removing one thing in exchange for something MUCH better. This won't solve the RG issues regarding the other dogs though. I don't advocate interfering with a dog while it's eating (I know I don't like to be disturbed when I'm eating :D) but like you've said, sometimes needs must especially if they've got something that could be a danger to them. I haven't gone into too much depth as I wouldn't want to come across as patronising but if you do need anymore info I'll try to help. I'm sure others will come along with other ideas too. Good luck and be careful :)
 
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