Taking food from dogs

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Inspired by another thread. Have you trained your dog so that you can take food from them? And if you have, why have you? I'm curious because I have never taken food away from my dog. Once I have given him food in his bowl, it belongs to him iyswim so I've never taken it away again. I do drop extra bits in to his bowl on occassion, so when I approach him when he's eating, he generally moves back and looks at me expectantly waiting for something tasty. I'm sure I could take his bowl away if I wanted to, although he'd probably be rather confused, but I never have. My DC are older and I've always told them to leave the dog when he's eating (or asleep) so it's never been an issue. Just being nosey :)

Jas is a bit like that, too :) He will regularly come over and spit out a rawhide chew on your lap and look at you expectantly as if to say 'Go on. Have a bit. It's delicious'. All the while the soggy, congealing chew is adhering to your trousers. Bless 'im.

My youngest DC was 4 when we got our first dog so I was very conscious that there would be lots of young children around her so it was very important to me that she didn't develop any guarding behaviours.

So we did lots of training around food (higher value swops etc) and making sure she was relaxed around it and it's worked in that you can take the most high value item off her and she is not concerned.

I didn't do as much work with dogs 2 & 3 but they are fairly easy going by nature (and tiny) anyone in the family could take food off them but I wouldn't be 100% sure about strangers.

i had one dog that would practically offer her food to the cats, they knew to stay away from the other one though

We don't do "leave it" as such, but if she picks up something she shouldn't she'll let me take it from her mouth.
We purposely got her used to us taking her bowl mid meal, just so she didn't become obsessive or defensive around her food. She just looks at us as if thinking, "aww go on, give it back".

i have never taught my dogs to allow me to take food from them, i just take it from them! they never seem to have a problem with this. i have no command i say if or when i am taking food from them i just do it!

the only time i have to say anything is when my normally very well behaved lab finds something really dead and stinky and unidentifable at the beach and he will try to bugger off and be sneaky about scoffing it! so he knows as soon as i see him it will be 'leave!!!' and i will run after him to try and bury it! he thinks this is a wonderful game and spends hours combing the beach for dead/half alive/stinky/ headless/ rotten bodies