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As others have said, you'll get some good help looking into food guarding or resource guarding.
We started from a very young age by hand feeding the dog at every meal time which i think is what most of the positive reinforcement books tell you (if you start with a puppy).
Spaniels as a breed trait always want a trade - i always think of it as i pay her a wage for doing what i want her to do. It did take a while to train the drop / leave it command particularly with a toy but i just made sure i had something to reward her with that was higher value than the soft toy / sock she'd stolen from somewhere.
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Thanks that was really helpful. We’d been getting angry with him and telling him off, which we kind of knew was the wrong approach. Think we need to just agree on an approach (treat based and positive) and stick to it. It’s only a very minor blip really as he’s such a friendly and happy boy in every other situation.
Otto is an absolute babe. Ive just forwarded a screenshot to my wife who will go nuts :-D