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New puppy is half labrador and half golden retriever. She’s very playful and will jump up and nip. She's bitten legs, ankles, hands and arms. How do we make her stop?
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here's an article to help you
Mouthing & Nipping
For puppies, much of playtime is spent using their mouths and needle-sharp teeth to chew and investigate objects. These activities are normal, harmless puppy activities—unless you’re the object being chewed and investigated! Puppies love to play with people. They chew on their fingers and toes, and they investigate people’s bodies with their mouths and teeth. These behaviors may be considered cute when the puppy is seven weeks old, but are not nearly so endearing when the puppy is four or five months old. Even though mouthing and nipping tend to diminish as the puppy matures, here are some helpful tips to get you through your pet’s teething period:
What to do:
- Alternative a toy or chew bone when the puppy tries to chew on fingers or toes.
- Puppies tend to mouth hands whenever stroked and patted. When you pat the puppy, distract him by feeding tiny pieces of treat from your other hand. This will accustom the pup to being touched without mouthing.
- Give a high-pitched yelp, as if you’re in pain, when the puppy bites too hard. This should startle the puppy and cause him to cease, at least momentarily. Praise the puppy for stopping and/or for licking you.
- Time out can be effective, especially for curbing mouthing in older puppies and adolescent dogs. When you receive a hard bite, give a high-pitched yelp and (a) walk away from the puppy and ignore for 30-60 seconds, OR (b) leave the room for 30-60 seconds. Option B is only feasible if your belongings will be safe from the puppy and if the puppy will be safe left where he is.
- Encourage non-contact forms of play, such as fetch and tug-of-war, rather than wrestling and rough play.
- Provide plenty of interesting and novel toys so the puppy will be inclined to play with these.
- Provide plenty of opportunity for your dog to play with other puppies and with friendly adult dogs. It’s important that he can engage with non-human playmates.
- Be patient and understanding. Playful mouthing is normal behavior for a puppy or young dog.
What not to do:
- Avoid enticing the puppy to play by waving your fingers or toes in his face or slapping the sides of his face.
- You should not discourage the puppy from playing with you. Play builds a strong bond between the dog and his human family. The objective is to teach the puppy to play gently—not to cease play altogether. - Avoid jerking your hands or feet away from the puppy when he mouths. This encourages him to jump forward and grab at you. It’s much more effective to let your hands or feet go limp so you aren’t much “fun” for him to mouth.
- Physical punishment for playful mouthing (slapping, hitting, etc.) can make the puppy afraid of you and could even cause the mouthing to escalate into aggression. We’ve heard of various “caveman” methods such as scruff shaking, whacking the pup on the nose, sticking fingers down a pup’s throat—these are cruel and inhumane.
Bite Inhibition
Teaching a puppy to alter his mouthing behavior is an chance to teach him bite inhibition. Bite inhibition refers to a dog’s ability to control and inhibit the force of his mouthing. A puppy or dog who hasn’t learned bite inhibition may not recognize the sensitivity of human skin and bite too hard, even in play. Some behaviorists and trainers maintain that a dog who comprehends the amount of force necessary to injured people, if ever in a situation where he does actually bite a person in a non-playful manner, will be less likely to bite and break skin.
To teach your puppy bite inhibition, first you will encourage him to play with your hands. Continue play until the puppy bites especially hard. Immediately give a high-pitched yelp and let your hand go limp. When the puppy startles and turns to look at you or looks around, remove your hand. Ignore the puppy for 10-20 seconds or, if he resumes mouthing, get up and move away for 10-20 seconds.
The next step is to return and encourage the puppy to play with you again. This is critical for teaching the puppy that if he is gentle, play continues–but if he is too rough, play stops. Play with the pup until he bites hard again and repeat the sequence. As you detect that the puppy is inhibiting those really hard bites, target slightly less painful bites. Persist with the process until the puppy can play with your hands but control the force of his bites to the extent that you feel tiny or no pressure at all. This can take as tiny as a day, or as long as a few weeks.
When Mouthing Become Aggression
Puppies sometimes have temper tantrums. Usually a tantrum will happen when you’re making the puppy do something he doesn’t want to do. This might be as benign as simply handling or restraining him. A tantrum can also occur when play escalates, much the same as when kids play and one child gets upset and angry. A puppy temper tantrum involves more than playful mouthing, but it isn’t always simple to tell the difference.
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lightly bite the tip of the ear.This may sound mean but it is the only way they can learn.But that is why i said lightly,or take a newspaper and tap its butt.When they’re not around their mom or puppy's they cant learn because they will instruct them not to bite because they bite them back and they will see how it feels.
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Argghh. Biting your puppy's ear or tapping her with a newspaper, lightly or not, is no way to instruct bite inhibition–please don't follow that advice.
http://www.crickethollowfarm.com/biteinh…
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One way I learned is to yelp like a injured puppy when she bites so she realizes that shes bringing pain. PLEASE! Start doing this asap or she will keep this habit into adulthood.
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Wimper. Im serious it works reall,y well. I do it with all of my pups. Try it.
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get rid of your children.
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take it to dogschool (training you know ^^)