Im having a problem with my 7 month old husky. Shes extremely well behaved (except when she gets excited haha) and sweet. She is great with other dogs of her size or bigger as she plays with her paws . Shes been a great dog

Her problem is when she has food in her bowl she is very very protective of it. She will warn the dog not to come close by blocking the dog off from bowl. If the other dog continues to come closer she goes after them barking and growling. On one occasion she even pinned the smaller dog down but didn't draw blood before I got to them. Now she also does this with treats if another dog has a treat or something she wants she will take it if she is the dominate dog. She doesnt do this with water bowls at all which I thought was weird its only things that she really wants/loves I guess. She shows no food aggression with me. I can take her food play with it and she has no problem. its only with other dogs.

If there is no food in the room shes great with other dogs. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!  

My girl does exactly that with the cat, good thing kitty is quick, lol. Do you feed in separate areas? I've heard this is a way, to let both eat in peace. Also pick up bowls when done, haven't a clue why water seems to be ok to share. I have trained Miya with leave it, enough and mine ( as in the cat is mine leave her alone), supervising is key and using commands to get the point across.

well the other dog at home knows not to go towards my dogs food so its okay here. I took her to a friends house and she wanted their dog's food and that dog was protecting his food from my dog. Well my dog didn't back down and they got into it. Is there anyway to break this? She does know leave it and drop it command as well. She's very smart. Even learned how to open an unlocked sliding glass door haha.

Aha, yes they are very smart. I would ask your friend to pick up dog bowls before coming over, to pick up the bowls so temptation is not there. Redirection, other commands as in having your dog near you with a stay, using be nice, also using enough, I use that when I've had enough playtime and she is not done playing. When we go over to Miya's bf's house she is quite dominate over him, he let's her though, but after an hour of playing she would not let him get a drink, told her enough, come here and stay, until he got his drink.

I just hate to go to other peoples houses and making them change their house cause my dogs a bully haha. I want to break it! I will have to use the "enough" command more often so She knows. She has the same playing problem just doesnt want to quit ha

I understand what you're saying. My neighbor doesn't help because she'll baby my girl and tell her boy enough, hahahahaha.
Just work with and continue to socialize.

Hey guys, my boy is 3 months old and I barely discovered his food aggression...wow.
I always feed him and he eats by himself. It wasn't until yesterday that my girlfriend got close to him and his bowl and he got crazy growling and putting his paws over the bowl. We were both stumped.
Besides this he's a gentle pup but does like to bite stuff but that's him being a puppy. This food aggression worries us. He only does this with his bowl not toys or anything. He gently eats food from my hands and takes treats nicely from my hand too. I'm not sure what to so about this.

Hi David,

 The bad news is that you missed the golden moment to deal with this,  which is the split second after it happened the first time.  The good news is that it is common and pretty easy to deal with .  

There was a member on here just before your time who was regularly dealing with this with his puppy, Bandit.  

Many of us contributed to helping him, including some video suggestions as well.

His name is cosmothunder .   If you search his name you can then look at all the threads he started ( there are a lot).   If you dig through them you should be able to get some ideas towards wrapping your mind around this issue and get to work on correcting it.

Basically,  you have to camps of options: prevention or correction.  

Both camps are addressed in those threads started by Tony,   cosmothunder.     He eventually posted videos of the aftermath of his addressing his puppy's aggression around food and his eventual success.  

Good luck . Please post any questions or observances.

Hey thanks I'll check that out!
Maybe it was my fault for always leaving the boy eating by himself in his area?
I understand this is behavior is something he probably developed while still with his litter mates to protect his food?

Perfectly natural, normal animal instincts, yes.

If you have ever seen a litter of pups scrambling for a nipple after mom has returned to the nesting box, you will understand why they become food aggressive... it's "survival of the fittest" and a "dog eat dog" world in there.  Unless your owner happens to have 7 soft-hearted daughters...