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puppy biting
How do you stop a puppy from biting? I can see this being a serious problem when she gets older unless you can help me do something about it now.
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You first have to figure out why she bites. All puppies bit. Most do so because the are teething and like any child everything goes in the mouth as that is where they can tell what things are.
To stop a dog from biting you must be firm and show the dog you are the pack leader. Learned this from watching the Dog Whisperer. Just how you go about this is really going to depend on circumstances.
When my dog was a puppy we found that biting her on the nose with a firm "No bad doggie" worked best. Just behind the noses is a small grove. Place your upper jaw teeth there and your lower jaw teeth under the dogs Jaw. Bite firmly but genteelly until the dog responds with a sound of pain. Then firmly say BAD DOG< BAD DOG while pointing at her. We then gave our dog a timeout in her crate. Just a couple of minutes as a dogs attention span is not long. When we let her we would pet her and let her know she was loved.
As she got older all we had to do if she did something wrong was point at her and say bad dog or bad doggie and she would put her head down and go to her crate on her own. After a few minutes she would come out to get her hugs. Her way of apologizing.
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You could try stopping the biting yourself if you have the patience and time if you don't and are desperate you could always take your puppy to a dog trainer let the trainer handle it since their better trained at training dogs and are professional's you could also do some research online educate yourself about puppies biting and how to stop it
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