5 Ways You Are Making The Puppy Biting Worse

My 6-month-old, 10-pound kitten had too much fun with my 3-pound puppy's house line.

Fair warning every one, I want to brag a little about my puppy. 😛

I was lucky that my girl wasn't mean in anyway, she was playful. There is simply an age when they like to gnaw and nip and to some extent it's ok to let them. It's a phase. I read or saw (somewhere) that mother dogs make a loud high pitched yip when a puppy's bite is a little too hard and it stops them instantly because of course they weren't doing it to hurt you. I did that a few times and my puppy would immediately back off and make big eyes like "omg I'm so sorry!". As a result she has developed the softest mouth. In fact now she's older she doesn't mouth you at all, and will turn her head away if you try to put your fiinger between her teeth or anything.

Another scenario is when playing and the dog is prancing around, "laughing" (the huffs and snorts they make when they play I think of as laughter and excitement) maybe trying to grab a toy from you or whatever. If it's mouth is open it might accidentally touch you with a tooth – immediately stop the game and say a sharp "NO", then wait 10 seconds and start the game again. (Yeah I watched this video too late but really, it's not the word, its the tone: "stop whatever you're doing immediately"). 10-30 seconds time-out is enough for them to get the message. Punishment (that word just means consequences, like stopping the game, a reprimand, turning your back and removing your attention from them. I do not mean you should hit or harm your dog) rarely needs to be longer than that. I taught her never to bark in the house by doing that. We're playing, she gets excited, she lets out a bark and the playing stops. If the response is short, sharp and immediately follows the undesired behaviour the dog understands the connection. But if you leave your dog alone and it has chewed furniture, you can't punish it because it absolutely will not draw a connection between the punishment and something it did hours ago. It will just think you are an unpredictable person.

Honestly, I'm not a trainer. I just applied two things consistently – one was just that: being consistent. Exact same response to the same behaviour, every time, without deviation and like I said, immediately. The second is, rather than telling her what not to do, I tried to teach her what to do. A third thing is I trained frequently and still do refreshers. That's it and if I list here the things she's learned.

*No barking
*No biting or mouthing
*Wait while her food is being served.
*Go to her spot when there's any sort of activity at the front door (she used to get excited and get underfoot and we were worried she might even run out).
*No entry to the kitchen.
*All 4 on the floor – no jumping on people when they come home.

*Both verbal and non-verbal (hand signal) commands to sit.
*Both verbal and non-verbal commands to stay – which means lie down and touch your chin to the floor and wait for the next command.
*Verbal command to drop it.
*Hand signal to come to my side and heel.
*A low soft whistle to come.
*Her name means to come. We had to teach humans not to over use her name and not to refer to her by name. THAT was hard!
*A finger snap usually means a release from whatever previous holding command, it can mean "at ease", you have permission to do whatever it is you're wanting to do, and sometimes it also means bring back whatever is in your mouth. Yes, dogs understand context. Another example, she knows she's not allowed on the furniture on her own but she is allowed if invited by a human. Interestingly, dogs are also multilingual. In our household two languages are spoken and she knows most of her commands in both.
*She's incredibly well housebroken. In fact she's kind of fastidious and doesn't like using "pulbic restrooms". We only figured this out because we took her to a park once and we didn't really notice that she didn't do any business there but when we got home several hours later, she raced across the house and out the back to get to "her" toilet and let go!
*There's probably some I've forgotten.

Now all of this took a while. I think we started around 6 months and it took till she was around 2 and a half. She doesn't make mistakes but she's a bit of an individualist so sometimes she will look at you meaningfully as if to say, "Do you mind? I was doing something." before obeying. Occasionally she just decides to be a d*&k, ignores you and deliberately does all the things she's not allowed to do like she's got a checklist but for the most part it has worked out well.

By the way she taught me to play fetch. She kept bring various toys and dropping them at my feet or trying to actually place them in my hand. One day I threw one. That day I think she made me throw it about 200 times. 😀

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Hi I'm new here i have a 5 month old german shepherd that is having biting issues and also jumping issues . I have been. Saying NO! He gets more excited help !!! I have been watching your videos but I don't know where to start . Just not listening it seems. I'm worried he doesn't trust me as a leader . I want to fix what I might have caused ….confused need help love my Thor ty

Thank you for this information. 😀

Hello!we are starting when we engage in play she quickly loses interest in playing/biting toys and PREFERS to bite our clothes/skin. I am not sure if my puppy is feeling frustrated b/c she is no longer running the show but the collar for controlling behavior seams to be amping her up and not calming her down and making her want to bite us more. We are staying calm and using the word “cut it” and the minute we grab her collar she turns into a rolling crocodile. We will do this ten times over with no improvements. She does not seem to connect biting your owners equals a correction. She’s a female 11 week old mini dachshund. Any tips would be great. TY!! FYI: we have done the leadership exercises on your YT account.

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Thank you for the video. This helps. But what do I do if my 12 week old puppy keeps biting my older dog? He’s drawing blood on my dog. My older dog is so gentle,he doesn’t yelp or tell him no. My older dog is starting to get afraid of him.

I’ve a new puppy who I’ve been having trouble teaching manners to. I’ve just found your videos and they are wonderfully sensible and easy to use. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

cute on these types of puppies but does not work on a 8 mo shepard. I cannot calm and he lives outside so much different. Thanks for the info

You are great to learn from. My household recently got 2 male Pug puppies now they are 10 weeks old. One is a big chubby boy the other was the runt of the litter and is still so tiny but healthy. His larger brother bites and pulls his small brother's ears making him cry and squeal in pain. Except to pick up and comfort the small one, and because the biter is also a puppy, the family has been grabbing a toy for the biter instead of correcting him. The family will all be watching this video tonight.

I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old. It's so so difficult to get them all on board 😭

But what if this doesn't work because I have a 2 month year old Great Dane and he knows how to set shake and twirl but he just keeps biting no matter what we do