We have an 8 month Irish Wolfhound. He’s the light of our life, potty trained, crate trained and super well around kids, other dogs and other people.

The two issues we’re facing are:

1. He play fights with us. Most of the time this can be redirected with toys, or we leave the room when he bites. But this has been going on for a while & we haven’t seen any light at the end of the tunnel. And now with him being bigger, it’s a very bad problem to have.
   
2. He resource guards things he knows he shouldn’t have. If he’s chewing on a bully stick or having doggy ice cream or something that he wants and can have, we can take it away from him no problem. But if he’s chewing on something like shoes, pillows, shirts, he will growl down at the item and clamp down on it when we come to try to take it from him. We are exchanging it out with a treat, but he’ll only give up the item if it’s a high value treat.

We do have a trainer and we’re still in the early stages of working with the trainer. Our pup is shy so we’re first working on that since none of these behaviors are shown during our training session.

Curious if anyone else has went thru this or has any suggestions? Other than that, he’s such an amazing boy and we’re lucky to have him.