Winner of the DWAA Maxwell Award for 2002, Training and Behavior Book.

A practical how-to guide on resource guarding—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 counterconditioning, resource sample hierarchies, generalization, troubleshooting, body handling desensitization, operant conditioning.