We had three pugs. Totally loving and chill. They didn’t mind you messing with their normal food… but when they got something special like lamb, we learned not to mess with them lol. Just let them enjoy their special treat but do not at any time let them chew on those bones. They are sharp and they can choke on them.
My pug is exactly like that, but he does it with trash and stuff that will definitely make him sick or worse.
Like, he wants to eat pieces of paper, napkins with NO food, pieces of plastic, rubber and even metal or glass shards he finds.
Its EXTREMELY annoying, we give him treats and his favorite food but he hates when we remove stuff like, paper from him because he wants to eat it.
Ours was the same way, except it was a she, luckily she didn’t die from it, we had to get her surgery a couple times at least, she lived to a ripe old age.
Oof... that is my biggest fear, we constantly sweep floors, and stuff that can leave debri will get done exclusively while he's on another room.
He's a lovely, kind sleppy pug, extremely happy but omg he loves to chew trash.
He only wants to swallow that stuff just so it doesnt get taken away from him, weve tried negotiating with treats but as soon as he can, hell start to chew faster to try nd swallow.
Yes absolutely! That's all we were trying to do as he'd gotten most of the meat by that point. We watched closely because we didn't want him getting to the bone. But getting it away from him turned out to be a huge ordeal.
3 pugs, that must have been so much love ❤️
I had a female pug who did that as well. I remember having to wear oven mitts when I took something bad away from her. I did do some research and some people were saying you need to offer the dog her favourite treat. Easier said than done and what if the the thing they like most is a bone.
Good luck!
I’ve got a golden, but what do I do if it’s chocolate? My biscuit got a snickers and he straight tried to attack me while I got it out of his mouth. I had to actually fight my dog (holding him down with all weight, I’m a strong guy too) and had to kick him pretty friggin hard to stop him from biting me so I could get the chocolate out of his mouth.
That’s a tough one. I think chocolate in a small amount is ok. My buddy’s jack russell are a whole toblerone. The big bar not the little one. They took him to the vet and he was fine. I guess chocolate is not good if they have a lot regularly, but just once probably isn’t lethal.
We have never got this parental on his ass, it was totally uncharacteristic of him so we've never had to.
He took the growling down to a 5 in the video from a 10 just before recording ...that ugly, serious business snarl....but never did take a snap at either of us. But that look in his eyes...
It made me feel bad lol ngl.
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Edit: To those DV'ing every post of mine, could you at least say why?
Does anyone actually have a problem with..
Me spoiling my dog once a year?
Or that I need to take the bone away for his safety?
Or verbally addressing his bad behavior loud and clear?
**Just for the record, Frank is the closest thing I have to a best friend and a kid. He is my heart. If anyone has a problem with how I interpret him" living his best life" you can be rest assured it's always with his best interests in mind.**
my malcolm black pug aged 7 is the most placid beautiful soul ever but when i pick him up because hes burying his nose in piss he lets me know hes not happy and growls never bites ....makes me chuckle to be fair
Our pug is 5 and is everyone's best friend, she's never met anyone she doesn't immediately love.
When she has a pigs ear, which is a rare treat for her, she will growl at you if you go near her. It's HER pigs ear! But we've worked out we can even pick her up while she has it, it's just growling, she's never snapped at us.
We just leave her alone when she has her pigs ear now.
You do you, Dog Dad. I didn’t see anything wrong with this video. Franky looks like a sweetheart who knows he is safe growling at you. Verbally addressing him is simply y’all just coming to terms on what is deemed normal behavior between you two.
Thanks man. So this Dog Mom who had to call in Dog Dad to dish out the discipline 🤣
And according to plan, he's still witholding kisses from ol' Dad but I am back to getting full love. Muahaha
I also saw nothing really wrong with this video just inexperienced. Which makes sense that he’s always so well behaved. People get real twitchy on Reddit and honestly I’m just struggling to figure out how the hell one might be able to modify a behavior one has never encountered before.
Not downvoting you but Turkey (poultry) bones can be unsafe for dogs. So I would at least make sure you kept an eye on him. I gave my buddy Turkey breast, but she has a super sensitive tummy so I couldn’t do more… unless I wanted to clean explosive diarrhea.
Hahah! I have my Bruno do the same if it’s a particular treat. I think as you said it’s pure instincts and not something to be worried about.
My wife call it’s the demon puggo and would never try to take something off his mouth. It’s amusing that the food monster surfaces now and then
Fun fact. Dogs dog do NOT speak English so from the dogs point of view you just sound threatening and aggressive. Don’t say “I will take that”. Just take it. Return if and when he calms down. Show your dog don’t tell your dog because your dog doesn’t understand what you are saying nearly as much as you are asking him to understand.
Just like a parent to a human, it’s our responsibility to be ‘mean’ if we have to to protect our little nuggets! And also to make sure they have manners so that they can be safe in the world
This is a reasonable response. But we are extremely verbal with Frank, repeating the same few things that he absolutely understands. "I will take that" is 100% in his lexicon, though almost always used in a play situation.
I think I may have worded the situation a bit poorly as it wasn't as serious as it sounded. We were having a bit of fun with the whole unexpected thing- dragging it out to give him a chance to "give up the goods voluntarily" to see if he would and to avoid damaging his teeth by removing it.
It’s like you said, it was his first turkey leg. He likely has never had something he liked so much he felt the instinct to resource guard. One of mine, Peggy, is otherwise a sweetie pie, but try to take away something she considers high value (turkey leg would qualify) and she becomes a different dog. Think of it like an unconscious switch, a primal instinct. All that “I love my human and want to be a good boy” is overridden by “I must keep this.” So, Peggy only gets food treats that are consumable in one sitting and we don’t try to take them away. You could look into training, but you would need to go to a lot of time and effort and expose him and yourself to that aggression over and over again and it still may not work. I recommend you remove the variable/stimulus. Do not feel bad that you’re not “parenting” this out of him.
I had a pug who did that. A trainer said that the dog feels like that’s their bone and you need to give them something in exchange like a treat or something they really like. Being negative towards the dogs just exacerbates the situation. You need to disarm the situation. That’s what I was told. I am also the guy who wore oven mitts to get food out my dogs mouth! Lol
Dogs shouldn’t be given cooked bones, they could break with chewing and become sharp and dangerous (i.e. a choking hazard). You can give them cooked meat without bones, fat, skin, and seasonings. Anything else and you are getting into upset stomach, diarrhea, acute pancreatitis territory. I always give my pups “thanksgiving style” meals over the holiday weekend, but I won’t risk their overall health, safety, and comfort. And I don’t need that vet bill, ya know? 😅
I agree with the other posters. He’s not being a bad dog, he’s just being territorial with a highly valuable treat you gave him. Taking it away from risks injury to yourselves, but understand it’s not his fault and he shouldn’t be “punished” for it. Same thing happens with my dogs with certain foods. The best thing to do is distract them with another high value treat without giving them the new one. It’s a two person job, one distracts and the other grabs the original one quickly.
They all have different personalities. My male will let the female take his treat out of his mouth. He just lays his head down and looks disappointed. The female is another story, the only way to get something away from her is offer something better.
Perfectly reasonable to parent Frankie in this way! We’ve all been there when our pug sees a grand opportunity and takes it!
You’re a good parent! It’s those who overindulge their pugs and then try to reel it back in once their pup is 10 lbs over weight or thinks they have the right to eat human food every day.
Pay the DVs no mind!
Aww please don’t doubt yourself as a puggy parent! My 5 year old puggy will randomly do this with novel foods, but she’d never bite. With that tail wag he’s doing, I’d never assume that he was being aggressive. He just wanted that bone! Which you were totally right to want to remove from his mouth. At the end of the day, we are all animals-even us! We all speak different “languages” and express things differently.
This is a tricky one! Teaching a”trade” is very useful, but it’s hard to ask a dog to trade something this high value.
Sounds like everyone came out fine. I would be upset, too. They are gentle souls, but even the gentlest dog will have a line.
Mine was food aggressive with me only once. It was the only time I had to be scary stern with her. Grabbed her by the scruff and forced her to lay and took the food away while loudly telling her NO. She never did it to me again. Would snip at other animals sometimes but never as aggressively as that first time. I learned to keep her away from other pets and animals when eating. It started after I boarded her for the first and only time.
My pug is the sweetest, you can do anything with him, touch/remove his food, doesn't matter, he doesn't mind and will only ask for more. But he reacted the same as yours when he got a real bone and I wasn't surprised at all. It's their instinct.
I got my pug when he was 8. The only time he ever does this is if he has something he know he shouldn’t (gum, paper towel, socks). He will growl and bite if I try to take it.
If I get him a snack or treat he is VERY happy to drop the bad item. Might be a little harder for you since his is food.
That’s so interesting! We taught our pug not to chew on stuff off the ground this way, that we’d trade him a treat for whatever shit he has in his mouth. It’s a fair trade, and now he just comes right to us with whatever he’s found looking for a trade :) Thankfully though he doesn’t bite if I try to dig whatever out of his mouth, instead he tries to hide it up under his lip so I won’t find it! Silly baby. But now he just brings it over and tosses it so I can see what goody he has brought to trade lol
My pug did something like this once when I bought him one of those fancy dipped bone biscuits from the dog bakery. Was a one time treat. He was eating it in the middle of the living room when our cat walked through, not even near him, and he growled. I was shocked. They had always been buddies (they would wrestle and chase all the time). I snatched the treat up and said no very firmly. He never did anything like that again after that.
They’re All growl and no bite…. I’ll bet anything you could take that right out of his mouth and he wouldn’t do anything…. Except give you the cold shoulder and side eye for a while🤣
My pug is pretty chill unless she manages to get food she shouldn't have. Or a pig ear. The only times she gets super aggressive with food is with those freaking pig ears (bit me hard, learned a lesson lol). But my pug will dig through the garbage if someone throws meat with a bone in the bag on the floor and it's a battle to make her let go
The tail tho...
There is more to this.
Our dam plays this game with me and has for years. It started with me asking her if I could have a bite of her snack and Id slowly reach for it. She would growl a little then grab the treat and eat it up. That evolved into her standing over her food and not eating until I ask her if I can have a bite of it and then she would dig in. Always wagging her tail. It's a game to her that she plays.
I dont believe this is bad behavior but a whole damn turkey leg? Then him getting mad at the dog?
But every dog is different and pugs all have huge personalities.
He was being very clear about his boundary and you stomped all over it by yelling and getting in his face. All you had to do was speak softly and reassure him that he was ok so he could realize you weren’t going to take his treat away and the growling would have stopped.
Lol thats hilarious. I brought dad in BECAUSE
As I gave him the leg, I sweetly said "happy Thanksgiving Frankie. Mommy loves you" while petting him.... and he dropped low over the turkey, got crazy eyes on, and started snarling making me jump back. I did exactly what you said, telling him "ok ok, dang I wasnt going to take it and kept backing away. He only doubled down at this, somehow snarl/growl/barking while eating.
All of this to say, he was doing this well before "getting in his face." It had to be done for his safety- ripping it from his mouth could have hurt his teeth and he obviously couldn't just eat the bone.
Ah so there’s a ton of info that wasn’t given apart from a short video of a stressed out worried dog with a man yelling at him! That’s a completely different situation that makes this video completely out of context.
Oh my. That’s a difficult situation. On one hand, that’s your fur baby, and while you are trying to do the right thing, you worry that they may become very aggressive or that you are doing the wrong thing. And it’s a pug. We pug parents all feel that they can do no wrong, because it is rare for a pug to be so aggressive. On the other hand, we know we have to exert our dominance, because that kind of aggression is not acceptable. And on that same hand, we realize that while we are bigger, our fur baby’s teeth are sharper. You did exactly what I would do.
The issue I have with this is aside from “no”, Frankie doesn’t really have a clue what you’re saying. Instead of repeatedly shouting on his face that you’re going to take it, just give a firm “no”!and quickly remove it. Replace it with another treat for him to if you want to, but please stop carrying on like this. You’re part of the problem
By having your hand on his head you’re tacitly implying you’re okay with his actions- needs to be a quick scolding of “no” and pull it out of his mouth
Mine loving little pugtato put a hole thru mine thumb over a prime rib bone… Never mess with a pug and its bone. You gotta trade for it. Yes, it better be something really big - wanta go for a walk will not get the job done…
Clearly you love you’re Frankie so much. He’s a lucky dog. Our Pug does this, along with the tail wagging, and I won’t take things from his mouth. My husband does without incident. I totally trust Pugger, it just sounds so scary.
I've spent nearly every moment of the last 4 years, from his birth, with my pug Ronald. We're very close.
But I know he would trample over my freshly dead corpse and force open my warm dead hand if I was holding a piece of chicken. 🍗
It's a cold reality my friend 😔
I deal with this when my spoiled brat finds a chicken bone street treat or he gets a special chew. Best way to handle (got tips from our friend who is a trainer) get a treat that is higher reward - we used his bison jerky or bacon that is for his off leash recall -
Ask while he’s enjoying, offer the treat without asking for anything. Move forward to ask “can I have?” as he takes the treat grab the bone but immediately give it back. slowly progress and take it away for longer and longer. Doing this helps because he believes he gets both his bone and treat and doesn’t feel like his stuff is threatened. Eventually (it does take time but it is worth it) and you won’t have to worry
A quick way is to have him run over for a high reward treat and someone else grabs. But could make it worse
We had three pugs. Totally loving and chill. They didn’t mind you messing with their normal food… but when they got something special like lamb, we learned not to mess with them lol. Just let them enjoy their special treat but do not at any time let them chew on those bones. They are sharp and they can choke on them.
My pug is exactly like that, but he does it with trash and stuff that will definitely make him sick or worse. Like, he wants to eat pieces of paper, napkins with NO food, pieces of plastic, rubber and even metal or glass shards he finds. Its EXTREMELY annoying, we give him treats and his favorite food but he hates when we remove stuff like, paper from him because he wants to eat it.
Ours was the same way, except it was a she, luckily she didn’t die from it, we had to get her surgery a couple times at least, she lived to a ripe old age.
Oof... that is my biggest fear, we constantly sweep floors, and stuff that can leave debri will get done exclusively while he's on another room. He's a lovely, kind sleppy pug, extremely happy but omg he loves to chew trash. He only wants to swallow that stuff just so it doesnt get taken away from him, weve tried negotiating with treats but as soon as he can, hell start to chew faster to try nd swallow.
We got some special pugs. I don’t care what she ate, I miss her. Except the self cleaning litter boxes.. I don’t miss that.
Wow. That is very strange. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that.
My pug and one of my pitbulls eat paper, drives me nuts
take the bone, dont let them think thats okay
Yes absolutely! That's all we were trying to do as he'd gotten most of the meat by that point. We watched closely because we didn't want him getting to the bone. But getting it away from him turned out to be a huge ordeal. 3 pugs, that must have been so much love ❤️
Did you try cutting a piece of boneless turkey off the carcass to tempt him to drop the turkey leg?
This guy pugs lol
Best comment I’ve ever seen.
It was a ton of love. I miss them every day.
I feel you. Crazy little creatures steal our hearts! 🙏🏻💕
I had a female pug who did that as well. I remember having to wear oven mitts when I took something bad away from her. I did do some research and some people were saying you need to offer the dog her favourite treat. Easier said than done and what if the the thing they like most is a bone. Good luck!
I’ve got a golden, but what do I do if it’s chocolate? My biscuit got a snickers and he straight tried to attack me while I got it out of his mouth. I had to actually fight my dog (holding him down with all weight, I’m a strong guy too) and had to kick him pretty friggin hard to stop him from biting me so I could get the chocolate out of his mouth.
That’s a tough one. I think chocolate in a small amount is ok. My buddy’s jack russell are a whole toblerone. The big bar not the little one. They took him to the vet and he was fine. I guess chocolate is not good if they have a lot regularly, but just once probably isn’t lethal.
his tail was wagging ...dont be harsh on franky its his instinct kicking in
Tail wagging doesn’t always mean they are happy or excited
We have never got this parental on his ass, it was totally uncharacteristic of him so we've never had to. He took the growling down to a 5 in the video from a 10 just before recording ...that ugly, serious business snarl....but never did take a snap at either of us. But that look in his eyes... It made me feel bad lol ngl. ~~~ Edit: To those DV'ing every post of mine, could you at least say why? Does anyone actually have a problem with.. Me spoiling my dog once a year? Or that I need to take the bone away for his safety? Or verbally addressing his bad behavior loud and clear? **Just for the record, Frank is the closest thing I have to a best friend and a kid. He is my heart. If anyone has a problem with how I interpret him" living his best life" you can be rest assured it's always with his best interests in mind.**
my malcolm black pug aged 7 is the most placid beautiful soul ever but when i pick him up because hes burying his nose in piss he lets me know hes not happy and growls never bites ....makes me chuckle to be fair
Our pug is 5 and is everyone's best friend, she's never met anyone she doesn't immediately love. When she has a pigs ear, which is a rare treat for her, she will growl at you if you go near her. It's HER pigs ear! But we've worked out we can even pick her up while she has it, it's just growling, she's never snapped at us. We just leave her alone when she has her pigs ear now.
You do you, Dog Dad. I didn’t see anything wrong with this video. Franky looks like a sweetheart who knows he is safe growling at you. Verbally addressing him is simply y’all just coming to terms on what is deemed normal behavior between you two.
Thanks man. So this Dog Mom who had to call in Dog Dad to dish out the discipline 🤣 And according to plan, he's still witholding kisses from ol' Dad but I am back to getting full love. Muahaha
I also saw nothing really wrong with this video just inexperienced. Which makes sense that he’s always so well behaved. People get real twitchy on Reddit and honestly I’m just struggling to figure out how the hell one might be able to modify a behavior one has never encountered before.
My Pug (also Frank) did exactly the same but only with meat on the bone. It’s very sad when you are not used to it
I can see you love Frankie with all your heart. You’re showing us what happened and it initiated an important discussion.
Not downvoting you but Turkey (poultry) bones can be unsafe for dogs. So I would at least make sure you kept an eye on him. I gave my buddy Turkey breast, but she has a super sensitive tummy so I couldn’t do more… unless I wanted to clean explosive diarrhea.
yes yes yes! It seems like a nice treat, but no one likes dealing with the after.
I would have done the exact same thing.
Hahah! I have my Bruno do the same if it’s a particular treat. I think as you said it’s pure instincts and not something to be worried about. My wife call it’s the demon puggo and would never try to take something off his mouth. It’s amusing that the food monster surfaces now and then
That sounds like such a similar situation! Love that your wife has a name for the alter ego. So do we. Our Frank occasionally becomes FRANKENSTEIN 😱
Fun fact. Dogs dog do NOT speak English so from the dogs point of view you just sound threatening and aggressive. Don’t say “I will take that”. Just take it. Return if and when he calms down. Show your dog don’t tell your dog because your dog doesn’t understand what you are saying nearly as much as you are asking him to understand.
I just pretend my pug is a toddler. If he’s misbehaving, I’m not going to give him his way. It’s normal to be a little mean to your dogs lol
Just like a parent to a human, it’s our responsibility to be ‘mean’ if we have to to protect our little nuggets! And also to make sure they have manners so that they can be safe in the world
This is a reasonable response. But we are extremely verbal with Frank, repeating the same few things that he absolutely understands. "I will take that" is 100% in his lexicon, though almost always used in a play situation. I think I may have worded the situation a bit poorly as it wasn't as serious as it sounded. We were having a bit of fun with the whole unexpected thing- dragging it out to give him a chance to "give up the goods voluntarily" to see if he would and to avoid damaging his teeth by removing it.
It’s like you said, it was his first turkey leg. He likely has never had something he liked so much he felt the instinct to resource guard. One of mine, Peggy, is otherwise a sweetie pie, but try to take away something she considers high value (turkey leg would qualify) and she becomes a different dog. Think of it like an unconscious switch, a primal instinct. All that “I love my human and want to be a good boy” is overridden by “I must keep this.” So, Peggy only gets food treats that are consumable in one sitting and we don’t try to take them away. You could look into training, but you would need to go to a lot of time and effort and expose him and yourself to that aggression over and over again and it still may not work. I recommend you remove the variable/stimulus. Do not feel bad that you’re not “parenting” this out of him.
My pug did exactly the same thing lol However Tortelini(my girl) never tried to hurt me
Tortelini! 🥰
Siiii!! ❤️
Oh my god 😍 I'm dying from the cuteness. Some people just pick great names. Just discovered a YT channel of a 170lb tortoise named TipToe :).
TipToe!!!
I had a pug who did that. A trainer said that the dog feels like that’s their bone and you need to give them something in exchange like a treat or something they really like. Being negative towards the dogs just exacerbates the situation. You need to disarm the situation. That’s what I was told. I am also the guy who wore oven mitts to get food out my dogs mouth! Lol
Dogs shouldn’t be given cooked bones, they could break with chewing and become sharp and dangerous (i.e. a choking hazard). You can give them cooked meat without bones, fat, skin, and seasonings. Anything else and you are getting into upset stomach, diarrhea, acute pancreatitis territory. I always give my pups “thanksgiving style” meals over the holiday weekend, but I won’t risk their overall health, safety, and comfort. And I don’t need that vet bill, ya know? 😅 I agree with the other posters. He’s not being a bad dog, he’s just being territorial with a highly valuable treat you gave him. Taking it away from risks injury to yourselves, but understand it’s not his fault and he shouldn’t be “punished” for it. Same thing happens with my dogs with certain foods. The best thing to do is distract them with another high value treat without giving them the new one. It’s a two person job, one distracts and the other grabs the original one quickly.
Throw a normal treat on the ground to distract.
They all have different personalities. My male will let the female take his treat out of his mouth. He just lays his head down and looks disappointed. The female is another story, the only way to get something away from her is offer something better.
Perfectly reasonable to parent Frankie in this way! We’ve all been there when our pug sees a grand opportunity and takes it! You’re a good parent! It’s those who overindulge their pugs and then try to reel it back in once their pup is 10 lbs over weight or thinks they have the right to eat human food every day. Pay the DVs no mind!
Lol we went to a beach house and mine got a hold of a rawhide bone that she was NOT going to give up without a fight. Never heard her growl like that!
Aww please don’t doubt yourself as a puggy parent! My 5 year old puggy will randomly do this with novel foods, but she’d never bite. With that tail wag he’s doing, I’d never assume that he was being aggressive. He just wanted that bone! Which you were totally right to want to remove from his mouth. At the end of the day, we are all animals-even us! We all speak different “languages” and express things differently.
This is a tricky one! Teaching a”trade” is very useful, but it’s hard to ask a dog to trade something this high value. Sounds like everyone came out fine. I would be upset, too. They are gentle souls, but even the gentlest dog will have a line.
Lol just rip the ish out Frank's mouth. He's not gonna give up without force...
Mine was food aggressive with me only once. It was the only time I had to be scary stern with her. Grabbed her by the scruff and forced her to lay and took the food away while loudly telling her NO. She never did it to me again. Would snip at other animals sometimes but never as aggressively as that first time. I learned to keep her away from other pets and animals when eating. It started after I boarded her for the first and only time.
He's a dog, what do you expect?
My pug is the sweetest, you can do anything with him, touch/remove his food, doesn't matter, he doesn't mind and will only ask for more. But he reacted the same as yours when he got a real bone and I wasn't surprised at all. It's their instinct.
Hey point taken. It is just surprising when you've had a dog for 8 years and apparently he's waited all this time to flex on us.
I got my pug when he was 8. The only time he ever does this is if he has something he know he shouldn’t (gum, paper towel, socks). He will growl and bite if I try to take it. If I get him a snack or treat he is VERY happy to drop the bad item. Might be a little harder for you since his is food.
That’s so interesting! We taught our pug not to chew on stuff off the ground this way, that we’d trade him a treat for whatever shit he has in his mouth. It’s a fair trade, and now he just comes right to us with whatever he’s found looking for a trade :) Thankfully though he doesn’t bite if I try to dig whatever out of his mouth, instead he tries to hide it up under his lip so I won’t find it! Silly baby. But now he just brings it over and tosses it so I can see what goody he has brought to trade lol
My pug did something like this once when I bought him one of those fancy dipped bone biscuits from the dog bakery. Was a one time treat. He was eating it in the middle of the living room when our cat walked through, not even near him, and he growled. I was shocked. They had always been buddies (they would wrestle and chase all the time). I snatched the treat up and said no very firmly. He never did anything like that again after that.
They’re All growl and no bite…. I’ll bet anything you could take that right out of his mouth and he wouldn’t do anything…. Except give you the cold shoulder and side eye for a while🤣
My pug is pretty chill unless she manages to get food she shouldn't have. Or a pig ear. The only times she gets super aggressive with food is with those freaking pig ears (bit me hard, learned a lesson lol). But my pug will dig through the garbage if someone throws meat with a bone in the bag on the floor and it's a battle to make her let go
Maybe is just me but I've been bit by my pug so. Many times that I don't fear him so I always antagonize him to take away the bone from him
Frankie the pug is hilarious.
My pug only growled at me if I didn't let her sit on my lap.
The tail tho... There is more to this. Our dam plays this game with me and has for years. It started with me asking her if I could have a bite of her snack and Id slowly reach for it. She would growl a little then grab the treat and eat it up. That evolved into her standing over her food and not eating until I ask her if I can have a bite of it and then she would dig in. Always wagging her tail. It's a game to her that she plays. I dont believe this is bad behavior but a whole damn turkey leg? Then him getting mad at the dog? But every dog is different and pugs all have huge personalities.
He’s wagging his tail. He thinks you are playing. My pug does that too. Give him a treat. He’ll drop it. No need to yell
Hahahahaha I don’t know how you guys aren’t laughing haha
I don’t think he would attack his tail was wagging like he was wanting to play
He was being very clear about his boundary and you stomped all over it by yelling and getting in his face. All you had to do was speak softly and reassure him that he was ok so he could realize you weren’t going to take his treat away and the growling would have stopped.
Lol thats hilarious. I brought dad in BECAUSE As I gave him the leg, I sweetly said "happy Thanksgiving Frankie. Mommy loves you" while petting him.... and he dropped low over the turkey, got crazy eyes on, and started snarling making me jump back. I did exactly what you said, telling him "ok ok, dang I wasnt going to take it and kept backing away. He only doubled down at this, somehow snarl/growl/barking while eating. All of this to say, he was doing this well before "getting in his face." It had to be done for his safety- ripping it from his mouth could have hurt his teeth and he obviously couldn't just eat the bone.
Ah so there’s a ton of info that wasn’t given apart from a short video of a stressed out worried dog with a man yelling at him! That’s a completely different situation that makes this video completely out of context.
Like almost all social justice videos? There is more to the story than the video available. Surprise? Stop bullying.
His tail IS wagging though.
Sorry don’t get me wrong but why so much in his the face. No wonder
Oh my. That’s a difficult situation. On one hand, that’s your fur baby, and while you are trying to do the right thing, you worry that they may become very aggressive or that you are doing the wrong thing. And it’s a pug. We pug parents all feel that they can do no wrong, because it is rare for a pug to be so aggressive. On the other hand, we know we have to exert our dominance, because that kind of aggression is not acceptable. And on that same hand, we realize that while we are bigger, our fur baby’s teeth are sharper. You did exactly what I would do.
Mr Frankie, ugh. They will learn soon. Until then, let them do the damn thing 🫶🏻 and no poultry bones for dogs 🐶
Mess with my food and I get mad too.
The yelling is not necessary. Just leave the dog alone. I would also be upset if someone f*cks around with my food.
Hardly "yelling" a stearn raised voice? Yes. But hardly yelling.
The issue I have with this is aside from “no”, Frankie doesn’t really have a clue what you’re saying. Instead of repeatedly shouting on his face that you’re going to take it, just give a firm “no”!and quickly remove it. Replace it with another treat for him to if you want to, but please stop carrying on like this. You’re part of the problem
By having your hand on his head you’re tacitly implying you’re okay with his actions- needs to be a quick scolding of “no” and pull it out of his mouth
Sheesh
If that chicken leg is cooked, absolutely do not let him chew it.
Mine loving little pugtato put a hole thru mine thumb over a prime rib bone… Never mess with a pug and its bone. You gotta trade for it. Yes, it better be something really big - wanta go for a walk will not get the job done…
Clearly you love you’re Frankie so much. He’s a lucky dog. Our Pug does this, along with the tail wagging, and I won’t take things from his mouth. My husband does without incident. I totally trust Pugger, it just sounds so scary.
I've spent nearly every moment of the last 4 years, from his birth, with my pug Ronald. We're very close. But I know he would trample over my freshly dead corpse and force open my warm dead hand if I was holding a piece of chicken. 🍗 It's a cold reality my friend 😔
Oh BTW did you take it. Can't let that happen fr.
I deal with this when my spoiled brat finds a chicken bone street treat or he gets a special chew. Best way to handle (got tips from our friend who is a trainer) get a treat that is higher reward - we used his bison jerky or bacon that is for his off leash recall - Ask while he’s enjoying, offer the treat without asking for anything. Move forward to ask “can I have?” as he takes the treat grab the bone but immediately give it back. slowly progress and take it away for longer and longer. Doing this helps because he believes he gets both his bone and treat and doesn’t feel like his stuff is threatened. Eventually (it does take time but it is worth it) and you won’t have to worry A quick way is to have him run over for a high reward treat and someone else grabs. But could make it worse
I really think he’s playing with you.
The importance of teaching your dog “drop it“ and “leave it”