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03-16-2013, 04:18 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Maine
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| Biting! My Ellie is about 11 weeks old and we adore her . When we play with her she get's very aggressive and bites hard! I know she's teething and she has plenty of chew toys. Will this biting stop when she's done teething? |
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03-16-2013, 08:08 AM | #2 |
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| That depends..if she is biting out of aggression, you need to put a stop to that right away as it can grow and become a real problem. My Princess Sophie still nips a bit when we play and she is teething also. I realize she is "nipping" out of excitement and not aggression as all I have to say is "No bite" and she stops. At first when we said this, she just got defiant and lunged at my fingers again. We started using a water filled squirt bottle and began giving her face a squirt when she started lunging, she quit that immediately and now just looks at my face as if to say "I don't want that squirt". Someone else here on YT recommended it, I'm afraid I can't remember who it was or I would certainly give them credit. It takes being consistant in what type of discipline you use. I think the squirt bottle is a good form of discipline for this. Good luck and let us all know how things progress!
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03-16-2013, 08:30 AM | #3 |
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| You got great advice. Nip the Nip Question: Why does my puppy, bite and growl when we play ? Sounds like your puppy just gets over excited. Puppies nip each other and play rough. Depending on his age and stage of development here are a few things that may help. Really young puppies respond well to this 1. After You say a dramatic high pitched Oucheeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! Immediately put him on the floor or turn your back or walk away and ignore for about 5 seconds. He needs to learn 'Never put teeth on people, because they will stop playing. If love bites are not corrected it can lead to real bites that break skin. Older pups 2. If he nips while playing say 'Enough" and give him a toy instead of your hand and say 'Good TOY' when he bites the toy. Your cue word does not have to be Enough, You can use what ever feels right for you, like NO, or STOP IT. What ever cue word you use, say the same cue every time. Everyone in your family should use the same Cue words. (I do not like to say No Bite because, then you have to teach a new cue word for barking, rough play, fighting with other pets etc..) Enough is easy to use , and it always means Stop what you are doing right now ! Please do not play tug of war type of games with your puppy. This is too exciting for them, they get in that rip up the prey trance and you may get nipped. If you do use the water bottle squirt, remember a quick blast to the face. Don't soak your pup, the idea is to interupt the prey trance.
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03-16-2013, 09:02 AM | #4 |
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| Biting out of aggression is how dogs protect themselves from attack and play rough. Aggression isn't bad in and of itself - most people love a feisty dog that thinks for himself and is quite forcefully playful and energetic, unshy. Aggression that becomes vicious is dangerous but with this baby of just over 2 1/2 months, you just likely have a playful little guy that is teething and expressing his passion for play and excitement with his teeth. And at his age, biting feels good to him. All you need to do is teach this dog to have a soft mouth. Since dogs don't have arms to hug and embrace, etc., they often use teeth to show passion and strong feelings. Just teach him that hard biting is not to be tolerated by you. As long as he's biting softly, that is usually okay. When it hurts you and is too hard, ALL ATTENTION AND PLAY STOPS. That's it. Say "uh oh" and get up and walk off. Go into the other room and do something else, do not look at the dog if he follows. After a while, play with him again and if he resumes a hard bite, all attention and play stops. Get up and leave the room, do something else. After a while, playing again, hard bite - yes, you know what to do - get up and go. In time, you dog learns that a soft mouth means playing and fun, getting to use his mouth to express his passion, etc., but he will also know that a hard bite stops all of his fun and attention. Things suddenly get dull and mommie goes away and no more playing. In time, by the time he is a few weeks older, he should start to get the message and some of the time remember not to hard bite and when he does - when you see that he's pulled his bite - softens it on his own - say "Yes" and praise him. This is key. He's a puppy and he will forget. Even at our age, when we are being taught something, we forget at times - forget to do something we know to do. Dogs do the same thing - especially months old puppies still being taught how to live with humans. When he does, get up and go, ignore him, do something else. It will immediately remind him of the consequences of hard biting and he'll do better next time probably. But even if he forgets again, just keep saying "uh oh" and leaving the room. By the time he is 7 or 8 months, he should have it down not to hard bite but he will - just like we do - still forget. By that time, after months of teaching, now you can say "No" as a form of discipline and stand up, walk toward him and back him off and make him leave the area. Now he's pays the price of having to leave and he knows mommie is unhappy. Just walk him from the room and don't allow him to return for a while until he has calmed down. That's how I discipline a hard-biter who has been trained for a few months but still forgets. There is a price to pay for hard play-biting but when an older dog that has been taught forgets or just needs to show some strong passion in the heat of play, he still gets the firm "no" and has to leave the room. This type of biting done when playing is just a form of expression of excitement and strong passion and isn't vicious or mean. Just think - if you had no arms, hands and couldn't really hug or hit or use arms to play rough and tough, you might use your legs or something - some body part - teeth even - as a expression of strong feelings. Dogs don't have that ability and often use teeth to show those feelings - but unless they are growling low first to warn or bite suddenly and viciously out of the blue in anger or fear, they are not misbehaving. Giving puppies of this age toys to chew on and things that help blunt those little sharp teeth as they chew some will help that strong desire they have to bite on things and will teeth until about 5 months of age. Freeze a washcloth dipped in water and see if he will chew on that some. Give him some bits of ice cube to chew on, even drop some in his bowl as he's eating to help soothe his little gums. Rubbing a tiny bit of peanut butter or wet dog food on a rubber toy can encourage chewing on that toy. Rubbing his gums can feel good too and help soothe his desire to bite. Pet stores have any number of soothing toys for teething and young dogs to munch on.
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03-16-2013, 09:23 AM | #5 |
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| Heehee. About the squealing or loud eeeeeeeee sounds - LOL - I have had one or two super-aggressive little rescue pups that would bite harder when I would squeal and try to follow me and nip ankles, feet as I walked away!!! Little devils were excited by the loud, pain noise and just loved it, excited them even more and kept nipping as I'd leave. Tibbe was 9 mos. when I got him, bit hard in play and loved it when I'd squeal or out and out scream loud! He's super aggressive and excitable but not at all vicious or mean. I stopped squealing and just got up and left and the pups, as well as Tibbe, didn't get excited and keep nipping from excitement. Just followed to see where I was going. If you have one of those little messes, the pain cry doesn't work that well. That's why I stopped recommending it in general. But if it works for your dog, use that or whatever works!
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