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Common Feeding Mistakes People Make with Dogs

Food carries a powerful message in the dog world.

Cesar Millan

Feeding provides your dog with nutrition and gives you the opportunity to shape your dogs behavior.

Don't Miss Out on the Ritual of Feeding
When puppies are little, they wait to be fed by their mother. This waiting is a form of work psychological work, and it builds a healthy state of mind. Day after day, this ritual plays out among the pack.

I take my dogs for a walk before I feed them. This form of waiting provides my dogs with psychological work and builds a healthy mind. The walk also promotes a healthy body and allows my dogs to experience the world.

Don't Reinforce Negative Behaviors When Feeding
Dogs don't get fed when their mind is excited, nervousness, tense or aggressive. They get fed when their mind is calm and submissive, which is what their animal pack leader would require.

Make sure your dog has reached a calm and submissive state before you place the food bowl in front of him. If you feed him when he displays any negative behaviors, such as nerves or excitement, you will reinforce these behaviors and guarantee that they will reoccur.

Food carries a powerful message in the dog world. Understanding its meaning and consequences will allow you to connect with your dog and help him to lead a happy, balanced life.

Next month: Behavior Rehabilitation

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Get more tips from Cesar.

Note: Cesar Millan is a professional. Please consult a qualified trainer before attempting these techniques with your dog.

For more information, visit Cesar Millans Dog Psychology Center where the express purpose is to rehabilitate and maintain a dogs natural state of being.

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I have an year old australian shepard. He goes out in the morning and then gets his food and water. He will sit and wait to eat until I give him the go ahead. The trouble I have is when he's eating, he becomes very food agressive and will bite if you come near him. I have a 19mo old son and also babysit multiples of young children. What can I do to change this behavior? He also is incessantly barking and jumping on our company. He will not stop or redirect the entire time we have company. We have to put him outside whenever someone comes to our home. We really need help. Our next step is to find him a new home, which isn't what we want to do.
Debbie, Locust Grove, VA
Posted: 8/25/2009 6:33:33 AM
When I wake up, I let the dogs out in my back to relaease their bladder then I like to feed my dogs and then walk them so they take their dump out on the trail (I do pooper scoop). Is this feeding time okay? I don't want them to be in the habit of pooping in the back yard.
stephanie, lake elsinore, CA
Posted: 8/6/2009 9:10:25 AM
I have an 8yr.old Cockapoo. I just got a 5mo. old Yorkie about a mo. ago. The Cockapoo doesn't like the Yorkie. She snaps at her or growles all the time when the puppy wants to play. She also gives up her bed to the puppy. How do I get them to play like other dogs do?
Yvonne, Clovis, CA
Posted: 2/26/2009 12:02:53 PM
I have an 8yr.old Cockapoo. I just got a 5mo. old Yorkie about a mo. ago. The Cockapoo doesn't like the Yorkie. She snaps at her or growles all the time when the puppy wants to play. She also gives up her bed to the puppy. How do I get them to play like other dogs do?
Yvonne, Clovis, CA
Posted: 2/26/2009 12:01:13 PM
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