By; Jean Donalson; 2002 Paperback, 100 pages

ISBN: 0970562942

*Award Winner, Dog Writer's Assn. of America, 2002, Training and Behavior Book. A practical how-to guide on resource guarding/aggression - food bowl, object, bed, crate, owner, etc. - in dogs. 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 counter-conditioning, resource sample hierarchies, generalization, troubleshooting, body handling desensitization, operant conditioning.