Chow Hound

Oh dear, we have been having some serious food issues of late.  Cowboy has started "guarding" his food, and even if I just walk past his pen he hovers over it like an old prospector protecting his gold claim.  And yesterday when I reached down to pet him while he was eating (which I've done before with no ill effects), he growled at me!  I cuffed him hard for that, and rolled him - and then took his food away and locked him in his crate for half an hour. When I let him out and gave him back his food, we had no further incidents.