How To Stop Puppy Biting
Before you learn how to stop puppy biting you first need to know that you shouldn’t allow your puppy to bite you. It’s cute and funny when they mouth you uncontrollably, especially your hands and feet. So the best way to learn how to stop puppy biting is to not teach him that its ok to bite in the first place. If you do this you’ll avoid when he’s older.
I’m going to share with you’re a handful of tips on how to stop puppy biting you and these techniques will also help stop puppy from biting, in fact if anyone who buys a puppy applies these techniques early on they won’t have any dog biting issues later in the dogs life.
The first thing you can learn on how to stop puppy biting is that when they start to mouth your hand or feet you give off a very loud, high pitched yelping sound and then immediately ignore your puppy. What this does is takes your puppy’s attention from playing (which is what he thinks he is doing) and makes him stop in his tracks. Then you ignoring him gives off the signal to your puppy that he no longer has your attention and if you do this each and every time his teeth touch your skin you’ll see that he will stop the biting because he doesn’t like the sound you make or the lack of attention you don’t give him. With this technique make sure that you only ignore him for about a minute or so and that you go back to giving him some praise and attention. One key thing to remember with how to stop puppy biting is that your puppy doesn’t need to actually bite you, what you’re trying to achieve here is you don’t want your dog biting you at all which will stop his urges to actually bite.
If you find that your voice alone doesn’t have any affect try creating a shaker (for example put some small stones into an empty plastic bottle) and at the same time you give off your yelp you shake the bottle near your puppy. Try shaking the bottle behind him as this will draw his attention away from your hand.
As a last resort you could try actually grabbing the puppy by the loose fur on the back of his neck (this is where his mother would grab him to move him around) and give a short, sharp and very firm “NO.” Don’t pick him up to your eye level or shake him just a simple grab and no to reinforce that he shouldn’t be biting. When you have done this give your puppy a toy. Eventually you’ll just need the verbal command to get your puppy to do this.
Follow this advice on how to stop puppy biting and you’ll find that your puppy will soon learn that his playful biting will not be accepted with you. By introducing this to him as a puppy will ensure that he doesn’t grow up thinking that biting things and people is ok. You’ll find that you won’t have and issues with biting dogs or your dog hurting anyone unexpectedly.
This method has been used by many owners and has always been an effective way on how to stop puppy biting excessively.
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