A practical how-to guide on resource guarding in dogs; food bowl, object, bed, crate, owner and more.

Contents include:

• Aggression basics
• Nature of resource guarding
• Kinds of resource guarding
• Behaviorist vs. medical models
• Recognizing guarding, prognosis
• Safety tools
• Treatment overview
• Management
• Desensitization and counterconditioning
• Resource sample hierarchies
• Generalization
• Troubleshooting
• Body handling desensitization
• Operant conditioning