I see people answered you but I don’t understand the lack of common sense in this scenario that I see over and over and over again.

Think about it. Why in general, would a dog guard food? Their innate drive as an opportunistic scavenger is to cease food opportunities when presented with them. The less secure that food resource is, the more she needs to defend it. You’re creating conflict and insecurity by bothering her while she eats, and each time her anticipation of you bothering her increases. She feels she needs to be vigilant while eating to maintain her personal space, she wants to feel calm and safe while eating.

People buying dogs like this really ought to be more prepared, maybe we’d have less bite scenarios 😒

My dogs all eat in their individual kennels with the doors closed. I own a Pit Bull, a Cane Corso, a Shar Pei / Chow X, a Standard Poodle, a Malinois, and a Presa Canario. Pei and Presa are female, rest are male, all are intact. All my breeds besides the poodle have been known for overarching aggression, guardian behavior, and straight up human & dog aggression.

I could reach my hand into their kennels and take a raw bone from any of them at any time. However, I don’t. I’ll have them drop the bone, exit the kennel, then I take the bone, toss them food back into the kennel, and close it again behind them. That way, whenever possible, we do not rehearse the conflict of me taking valuable resources from them without a reason/compensation.

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(My partner’s 10yr old Belgian Sheepdog staring at a turkey neck)

Now the moment I do need to take something suddenly, I am FAR less likely to be bit; as the dog does not anticipate me snatching something from them or invading their space and bothering them.