|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
09-20-2008, 07:21 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Orlando area, Florida
Posts: 477
| Play Biting? Wrigley is almost 4 months old and he loves to play bite me and my husband. I don't know what else to do to try to get him to stop, it is mostly just annoying but it can hurt even though he is just playing, especially because he sometimes goes for the face lol We have both tried the yelping thing, or saying OUCH! to get him to stop, we have also firmly said NO and given him something he is allowed to chew on such as his rope or kong. I have even held him up said no looking into his eyes. Also if I am on the couch and he is up there with me and he bites I put him down every time he does it. He just doesn't seem to be catching on. He does this basically anytime we are playing with him and have physical contact with him. Any suggestions on stopping the play biting? It is like he just gets so excited and that is what he does to play, but I don't want him to for obvious reasons. |
Welcome Guest! | |
09-20-2008, 07:29 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
Posts: 12,552
| Try snapping at him like another dog would. I guarantee you will get immediate results. If he bit his mother she woud snap at him. Also with the yelping, you can't just yelp, you have to yelp and then move away from him so he knows that if he hurts you, that you will not play with him. I hope that helps. |
09-20-2008, 07:36 PM | #3 | |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Orlando area, Florida
Posts: 477
| Quote:
Sorry, I guess I didn't say it, we move him away from us any time he bites, when we yelp, when we say NO, when we give him a chew toy and instead he bites us again, we put him on the floor or off of our lap depending on where we are and we remove him from our body. He is always doing it though when ever we are holding him, playing with him ect. The only time he doesn't is when we give him a bath, which I find ironic. Or if he is sleepy. Is he just being a puppy? I know chewing is part of that, I just don't want him chewing on me. It isn't that he is being aggressive AT ALL, he is just trying to play, the little goober isn't getting my strong hints that, that isn't how we play | |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart