I have two Treeing Walker Coonhounds and a beagle, all females, and they get fed plenty of quality dry dog food mixed with real meat and you can tell by looking at them that they are not starving by any means. I keep them in another room when I/we eat and the one cries at the door and they stare at you and cry LOL. Anything drops on the floor they are on it like flies on chit. The beagle is not as bad as the coonhounds and the one coonhound is REALLY food aggressive. No biting or problems like that though.
If I dropped a whole roast beef on the floor they would have it gone in a second.
They are rescues (all three). I wonder if the one who is really food agressive didn't get on her mother's nipple enough and had to fight her way, or was starved.
2007-11-16 01:52:45 · 10 answers · asked by Teresa 5 in Pets ➔ Dogs
Jan - I do watch Cesar Milan and no, it is not me. These dogs were behaviorally tested at the SPCA before I ever laid eyes on them and the big one got a "C" on her food test and the other one got a "B". The one with a "C" is the one who is really food aggressive, and that issue specifically was mentioned on the SPCA adoption page; that you had to see a counselor about her "food issues."
I don't care if she cries; I can ignore it. Other people in my house get agitated. I tell them that yelling "shut up" doesn't help. I read all kids of dog books.
2007-11-16 02:05:45 · update #1
Its their job to be. They are hunters. Most hounds (not all) will eat whatever they can when they can as they will instictively run off excess food intake
2007-11-23 20:15:44 · answer #1 · answered by Scoundy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's often the case, with hounds, that the pack instinct in them means they protect everything they see as 'their's', from their food, to the place they see as their place. With what's going on, I'd just feed her separated from the others and don't let her out until she's moved away from her bowl, and you've picked it up. When we had numbers if I hadn't put the bowls down in the same place, calling each hound's name, and in the same order, I'd have had chaos. And as we gradually had older hounds, who perhaps didn't eat up quite as fast, I'd have to be extra careful that they had their bowls away from the younger ones, so they could eat in peace ps I am now down to two hounds, and still feed them in separate rooms, with a baby gate across the door and they don't get released until both have finished and their dishes picked up. I doubt they'd fight, but they don't get the opportunity. I'm envious of your Redbone. We don't get all those more unusual hound breeds here in the UK. The occasional Coonhound, but otherwise no.
2016-05-23 09:41:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a beagle/basset hound mix (100% scent hound) that has NO food aggressive behavior.. there is a difference between food aggression and desire to eat.. Mine is not aggressive, but if you drop something he is on it.. the nose catches the scent and the brain is wired to follow and eat it.. Food aggression is if you go to take the food away, or put your hands near the food bowl and they stiffen up, growl, or bite.. (sometimes going to a full out attack in REALLY bad cases)..
As for the why's of food aggression.. every case is different.
2007-11-16 03:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by kaijawitch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Coons and beagles have sensitive " smellers" so they smell the food and want it. If they were rescued, maybe they were left out in the street and didn't get enough to eat. We have a 10-12 yr. old rescued beagle who wants everything you are eating. When I walk her she heads straight to any trash on the ground to see if it is food. My son's Golden retriever will knock you down to get what is in your hand and he said it was because she was the runt of the litter and was pushed away by the mom. I feed my dog before we eat and she will wait quietly until we are through, but she wants to lick the plates.
2007-11-16 02:08:58 · answer #4 · answered by Veritas 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all dogs are like this and I don't know why.
I spent 10 days at my sister's cabin with a Golden Retriever and a Hound.
The hound searched for food nearly every second of every day and the Retriever played with the kids and slept most of the time.
2007-11-16 01:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by DannyK 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
a lot of dogs will overeat. its a holdover from the wolf days when they didnt know when the next meal was coming. so they ate as much as they could, just in case.
my dog is not aggressive at all. i can take her food away, play with it, whatever. shell eat around me and sleep the rest of the day.
2007-11-16 02:02:16 · answer #6 · answered by grg1998 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Now you know where the term "chow hound" comes from.
You think a hound comes up and says "hold me", but that is not true. What they really said was 'hold me closer to the food"
2007-11-16 02:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by tom l 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
lol it's their nature. hounds are born to smell. their smelling thingies in their noses are more sensitive, and therefore they smell better.
so when therres food, they pick it up quickly, and then, like all dogs, they eat!!
the sniffing is just nature!
anyways, hope it helps!!
2007-11-16 02:01:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
You need to read Ceaser Milan's (the Dog Whisperer) books, or at least watch his show. Its not the dogs, it you!
2007-11-16 02:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
All dogs will do this.
2007-11-16 01:55:41 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋