Feeding the LGD and not the goats

[PendergrassRanch]

Feed them raw

 

[EllieMay]

. . . What works best for us is I trained my LGD to guard her food. She loves her goats, but now if one even looks sideways at the dog food bowl they get a full throated growl. If they keep coming they get a growl and a snap. They always try anyway.

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My dogs will growl at the sheep if the come near the food.
The sheep never showed an interest in eating the dog food, but they would be curious.
Now the sheep don't even bother to go near the dogs while they're eating.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

. . . What works best for us is I trained my LGD to guard her food. She loves her goats, but now if one even looks sideways at the dog food bowl they get a full throated growl. If they keep coming they get a growl and a snap. They always try anyway.

x2
My dogs will growl at the sheep if the come near the food.
The sheep never showed an interest in eating the dog food, but they would be curious.
Now the sheep don't even bother to go near the dogs while they're eating.

How does one train an LGD to guard food? Or do you mean they are just like that with their food (food aggressive)?

 

[terrilhb]

I feed my dogs 2x a day. My goats never bother the dogs food. Now they would love to eat my chickens food if they could get to it. LOL. And my dogs think they are goats. Because they love the goat food and the chickens food. Crazy animals.

 

[Southern by choice]

Many LGD's ARE VERY food aggressive naturally. I never allowed it with my pyrs and so they are fine, but sometimes the goats will try and get their food. I just separate them out or make sure they are fed at the same times. Callie the anatolian is food CRAZY! She will not bite or attack the goats but will growl and turn quickly to let them know...goats off! I have seen too many children get hurt over a food aggressive dog and so I trained mine to not be aggressive. Pyr's in general are food aggressive.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

I would say that Callie is food protective. She will not bite, attack, or go after a dog or goat over her food but she does growl and lets the goat or dog know that this is hers and not theirs. I kind of prefer her to be that way because dog food is expensive and I do not want my goats eating it up because 1.) it is not good for them and 2.) the dogs need to eat it.

All three Pyrs here would just sit and let the Kikos (Well Sis only) goble the food down and they did do that but now that Callie is in there she does not try to eat it.

You MUST be careful though because there is a fine line. If you ever notice a dog getting to aggressive you best stop it quick. When Callie went into heat she became VERY food aggressive and was ready to kill any dog or goat that came within even 20 ft of the food. She was scaring the goats too. She learned real fast that that is NOT ok at all, to goats or dogs. I don't mind her letting them know it is hers but better not do anything more than that. Now she is back to normal and will let the goats stand over her or let D eat right next to her again. Back to normal.

 

[Southern by choice]

Yeah straw....didn't Callie take "D"'s deer leg today... and now she has two! Crazy Callie...gotta love that babygirl!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Yeah straw....didn't Callie take "D"'s deer leg today... and now she has two! Crazy Callie...gotta love that babygirl!

She sure did! But she's not being mean, just laying on it as she eats hers. She's just showing who's boss. lol

I would go out and give to to D but she'll just take it back.