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But that doesn't mean safety fixed the mechanism. In many cases, safety simply removes the opportunity for conflict. It does not change the system driving the behavior. And that's something to pay attention to. And if you don't understand the system, you end up treating symptoms instead of the actual structure. It's all fear. And here is the core problem with the it's all fear narrative. If everything is fear, then nothing is fear. That's the disease in the force free ideology. Basically, collapsing every behavior. Guarding aggression, competition, negotiation, frustration, possession into one magical category. Fear. Play becomes fear. Curiosity becomes fear. Competition becomes fear. Even courage becomes fear in disguise. And, of course, it feels moral. It feels therapeutic. It feels compassionate. But, it collapses the behavior model into complete nonsense. Real behavior science is based on differentiation. Different motivation. Different predictions. Different interventions. Different interventions. If you, if we don't understand the motivation, then we're just guessing. That one line in his post where he says, a growl is communication. Of course, this is correct. Nobody can argue with that. A growl is communication. But, here is the part that conveniently it's put aside. Obedience is also communication. Disobedience is also communication. Obedience says, I agree. Disobedience says, I don't. A growl says, here is my position. Communication does not mean justification. Communication does not mean leave it alone. And, you do not punish the growl. Let's be clear. You acknowledge it. You analyze the function. And, then address the system. And, here is what actually is happening in most guardian cases. The dog has learned that controlling others works. And, that is operant behavior all day long. Every time someone retreats, the dog is reinforced. Most owners accidentally train guardian. Not by confronting the dog, but by backing away.

Ironically, this is the exact principle we use when training young protection dogs. The dog pushes forward. The helper yells. It's the foundational work of bite sports. That's how we start. Fear may start guarding in some dogs, but control maintains guarding in many more. This basically brings us to the actual structure beneath the behavior. Two motivational systems, they look identical from the outside. One is the fear, the defensive avoidance, the dog guards to prevent loss or harm. However, as soon as safety returns, that loop closes. The second one is competition, it's strategic control. The dog guards to win a negotiation. And here, the loop, if you want, closes only when hierarchy is established. Psychologically, these are totally different engines. Fear crushes the HRV, the heart rate variability. The system basically locks up. Fear spikes cortisol. Competition, on the other hand, raises testosterone. Sharpen focus increases persistence. Fear says, I'm in danger. Competition says, let's see who's steering the wheel. At my school for dog trainers, I talk about the 15 second rule. It's a really cool, simple diagnostic tool if you want. And basically, if you are dealing with a resource guard and you are evaluating, if you pause, if you just step back and remove the pressure, a fearful dog relaxes within more or less 15 seconds. The system shuts off fast when the danger is gone. It's done. A competitive dog, on the other hand, stays locked in. What do I mean by this? He holds the claim. He watches. He's waiting. And not because he's scared, but because he wants confirmation of influence. Fear ends when safety returns. Competition ends only when control is qualified. And that single difference teaches you more than any body language chart and any webinar, if you want. Here is where the industry as a whole fails. It's a really interesting one. And let me know what you think.

The first three trainers, they assume that, as I said, everything is fear. Many of the so-called balance trainers, they assume that everything is control. They are both sometimes right by accident. When the motivation matches the ideology, either one succeeds. When it doesn't, the dog gets destroyed. A fearful dog under the wrong balance trainer, of course, is going to shut down. And most likely that trainer is going to claim success, which is the sad, unfortunate truth. A competitive dog in the just-make-them-feel-safe training becomes a tyrant. And most likely ends up in for euthanasia. That's not skill, that's luck. Real training requires diagnosis, not ideology. When the two dogs negotiate rank, it's not fear. It's not pathology. It's not trauma. It's normal mammalian social structure. A fearful dog pushes the tread away and then relaxes. He wants that confirmation. That's not fear. That's strategy. Hierarchy often forms quietly through micropastures, subtle displays and tiny rehearsals of influence. Nothing traumatic, nothing abusive. As I said, just social mammal structure. Resource guarding is one of the cleanest strategies animals use to establish or adjust hierarchy. It's safer than a direct fight. Dogs deliberately argue over an object. Sometimes it's completely symbolic because it keeps the conflict controlled. By competing for possession, they make a statement about rank without escalating to serious injuries. I had a Yorkie. I'll tell you a really cool story. I had for 13 years a Yorkie. His name is Samson. He came to me because at seven months old, he was living with his sister, with the family. And he was bullying the female puppy, his sister. And the owner searched for help. I ended up going through an animal veterinarian behaviorist. Of course, at seven months old, he was on phloxetin. He came for training. I really, really liked him. I'm like, let me just have him. You already have one and they're not getting along. Sometimes it's just the right thing to do. It was a relief for the owner and I was super happy because Samson was a very, very cool little guy.

The story that I want to tell you is when he first came, he was this classical Yorkie that, you know, you open the door and if it was cold, he's not going out. It was raining, he's not going out. It was raining, he's not going. He's just like very acting like any city little dog. We have a lot of intact Malinois that live in the house. And he had to feed in. He didn't just feed in. He was a really cool dog and he basically put a, like a master class on how to work up his way and how to create some authority. Like, like you can think of it as a master class in strategic competition. So what he was doing, like what was his strategy? He would have a toy and then one of the bigger dogs will walk by him. And they could care less about what he has or what he does. But Samson would be like, oh, this is my boy, stay away. Nobody cares. They just go and do their own thing. He kept doing this. And eventually I saw him taking it a step further. And the step further was very interesting because now it wasn't that he had something already that he says this is mine, but he actually would claim something else. So, so for example, let's say there was whatever toy you think of somewhere in the middle of the room and there is a big dog and there is Samson on the other end. Samson would run and grab that toy like he's competing against the other dog while the other dog could care less what he's doing. But he would just grab it and snudge and he's like, oh, I beat you to it and it's mine and you don't you dare to try to take it and stuff like that. While once again, any of the other dogs really couldn't care. He was smart in that way that he didn't really challenge the big dogs when they had something they cared for. That was that, as I say, that master class that he put up. So after a little while, he ended up taking it to another step. Now he would see one of the dogs laying down, but there is a toy next to it. The dog doesn't care about that toy. Again, that was a very important part of his strategy. But he would go there and he once again would just kind of grab it and it's like this mine, not yours. He really worked his way up. Like little by little, he really worked his way up and he was able to assert himself. Because that's kind of how he, that strategy is what really created his place where he is. And again, he never really tried to take something of value from the other dogs. But for the most part, he was totally in control.

Like he can tell any of them to get away or to whatever. Like he was super, super cool. And his strategy was just brilliant. You know, again, he convinced much larger dogs that if he wanted something, he could take it. Even, even if the big dog had it first. Now, what is important where I'm going with this is, that's not fear. That's pure social strategy. And this is the kind of behavior the fear only narrative fell apart, cannot explain. So, when two dogs want the same rank, the conflict continues until it is resolved. In nature, if it's not resolved, one of the dogs is going to leave. In a home, they cannot. So, the relationship kind of becomes trapped, if you want. And here is the part that I think destroys the whole avoid conflict philosophy, avoid conflict idea. When you prevent conflict for competing dog, you prevent resolution. Avoiding conflict does not create peace. It creates uncertainty. Uncertainty creates more guarding, more tension, more stress. A lack of hierarchy is the, really the home of instability. This is why many force free trainers unintentionally worsen competitive guarding, competitive resource guarding. Because they, they remove the confrontation. Which is the exact mechanism that resolves status disputes. Resource guarding is not all fear. It's also not all dominance. It's not one thing. It's functionally diverse. And safety helps fearful dogs. Structure helps competitive dogs. You give the wrong intervention to the wrong systems and you strengthen the problem. Fear ends when safety returns. Competition ends when order is established. Confuse the two and you're not going to fix neither one. That's, that's it for today guys. Let me know your thoughts in the comments as always. Hopefully that was interesting. And yeah, just think about this. If a behavior turns on and off based on what the other dog or the other person does, it's not emotional. It's mechanical. Most guarding, most resource guarding is operant.

The dog is repeating what works, not what he feels. Why is not emotional but mechanical. An emotional behavior would continue regardless of what the other party, regardless of the other dog, whatever they do. That behavior will go on. But operant behavior only continues as long as the contingency continues to pay. If this were emotional fear, the behavior would just not stop the moment the person walks away. The dog would stay stressed. It will keep guarding. It will keep checking the environment. Anyway, that's all I have for you this time. I'll check the comments and see what you guys think. Take care. Bye.