In this funny dog video you will see Sami protect a lobster from her owners and other dogs. You can’t quite tell if she is protecting it so she could eat it or if she wants to be friends with it. It wouldn’t surprise me either way.
Sami is very gentle when telling his owners that she doesn’t want to give back the Lobster. She shows some teeth when another dog checks out the situation a little to close.
Has your dog ever protected something they didn’t want you to take back? My dog Jake is a hoarder. He will take a bone that his given to him, then take the other dog bones and hide them as well so no other dogs have a bone. That is his special way of protecting something that he wants.