Sep 4, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
Is your dog resource guarding or showing a completely different behavior? Tara and Laura go over the ways that resource guarding gets mislabeled and overused to explain a dog's behavior. These…
Laura McClureHostTara SturmerHost
Yeah, a lot of people will immediately say that their dog is resource guarding when in reality, that's not what's happening.
I think the most common thing that we hear is that protective aggression is resource guarding the human.
Yeah, we'll have a lot of people say that their dog is resource guarding them or resource guarding their spouse or their child or something like that.
And, you know, while simple things like just not using the correct terminology is not detrimental, but if you are treating it like it's a resource guarding issue when it is something like, protective, that's not going to be helpful.
And I think part of it is there is a ton of videos online that say the dog's resource guarding the human.
Yeah, because resource guarding is that natural... instinct for a dog because it's the, if you take this away, I might die mentality.
Yeah, a lot of people will immediately say that their dog is resource guarding when in reality, that's not what's happening.
I think the most common thing that we hear is that protective aggression is resource guarding the human.
Yeah, we'll have a lot of people say that their dog is resource guarding them or resource guarding their spouse or their child or something like that.
And, you know, while simple things like just not using the correct terminology is not detrimental, but if you are treating it like it's a resource guarding issue when it is something like, protective, that's not going to be helpful.
And I think part of it is there is a ton of videos online that say the dog's resource guarding the human.
Yeah, because resource guarding is that natural... instinct for a dog because it's the, if you take this away, I might die mentality.
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