Training tips anyone?

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My puppy is VERY food obsessed and gets crazy at feed time, trying to climb in the feed bags. If I lock him out while I make feeds up he jumps at the door(sounds asif he his taking a run up and shouder barging the door). Also I can't seem to get him to focus on me to sit and wait for me to put the food down. Any advice would be fab
 
Get someone to put him on the lead and make him sit,you can then put his feed down a few feet away and tell him wait, dont restrain him for too long just a second or 2 then ok is my release word. Gradually over time you can increase the wait .
 
If he won't sit and wait for you to put the food down, lift the food and take the food away.
He does not get the food until he is calm. If you have to lift it and walk away all night, then do it.
If he climbs on the food bags, lift him off and remove himself and yourself from the room.

He sounds like a good candidate for hand feeding. Where instead of feeding him out of a bowl you tip his daily allowance of food into the pockets of a bodywarmer or camera/fishing jacket and feed him throughout the day from your hand, when he is executing good behaviour, like paying attention, sitting, heeling, recalling etc. So he is being 'treated' with the food he would be getting fed anyway, just out of your hand, not a bowl. It is great for the bonding process.

I don't like the idea of him charging the door, it could cause him joint problems down the line.

I take it he isn't wormy and he is being fed enough? Sorry if that is a stupid question.
 
As suggested, all perfectly good training tactics or not feeding till calm resumes....so when you go to the feed cupboard and he starts acting this way, go back to what you where doing before and stop the feeding. Or even try filling a kong to slow him down, fill kong and learn him to sit patiently before you actually hand it over, so when he is bobbing about kong gets put out of reach and he only gets it when he calms.
OR
Prepare the food when he cannot see (put him outside/in another room with tv on), and when he is lying quiet and calm then call him in for his food. Mix up the routine.
Our dogs are fab at food time (OH) can take the praise for that but they sit and wait or run to a crate and wait patiently, this is because whoever acted like tigger during feed time had to wait till last to be fed.
 
Was wormed a few days before Christmas but will also double check feed amount incase I was having a thick moment when weighing. I don't think he actually does shoulder barge the door he just jumps and seems to hit it. The doors a homemade stable type door so not thick wood. They have their own dog room which is the conservatory so can go in and out of garden as pleases. He can also take a while to settle in there when ge gets back from walks. Fine going in there at bed time though. He's abit of a drama queen.
Did abit more training today with his allowance of dinner as you suggested and managed to teach lie down (this once been a slow one) stay and leave it (putting piece of food on floor and telling him to leave it til he looks away) so was very pleased.
Thanks for all advice. Thinking I may move where the dog food is kept as it's in a pantry that we use for a lot of other stuff so go in there regularly.
 
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