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06-29-2006, 11:28 AM | #1 |
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| Play Biting Behavior Lesson I found this on our local humane society website. There have been several threads lately on this subject so I thought I'd post this. Nebraska Humane Society Training and Behavior Department Behavior Helpline 402-444-7800 Ext. 221 Copyright Nebraska Humane Society. All rights reserved. Revised Oct. 2000. Play Biting and Mouthing in Puppies Why is my puppy nipping and biting family members? Nipping, mouthing and biting in young dogs is generally a form of social play not a teething behavior. Teething is more likely to involve gnawing or chewing on household objects. When puppies play with each other, they use their mouths. We must teach our puppies that any mouthing behavior with humans is inappropriate. The first thing you must do is provide lots of opportunity for play, without biting. Social play with people could involve fetch, hide and seek, as well as long walks or jogging. Although wrestling and tug of war games can be fun, they may lead to play that is too rough or rambunctious. Puppies need to learn bite inhibition. This is something they start to learn while with their littermates. It is one reason that puppies should not go to new homes until 7 - 8 weeks and they have had time to practice social skills with other dogs. It can therefore be extremely beneficial for the puppy to have regular interactive social play periods with other dogs in the home or in the neighborhood or at Bone Jour dog day care. How can I stop play biting? You must provide the puppy with proper outlets for social play and exercise. Playing fetch or hide and seek is an excellent way to exert some energy. It is important to never entice the puppy to play with human hands by wrestling with the puppy. Petting is also social interaction and the puppy may want to bite your hands. To encourage the puppy not to mouth hands during petting, always offer a chew toy with on hand while you pet the puppy with the other. If the puppy should try to mouth your hand, stop all interaction, walk away from the puppy and try again in a few minutes. Provided the dog is receiving adequate play, attention and exercise, you can turn the training to bite inhibition. One of the things that they need to learn is how much pressure from their jaws causes pain. Without this feedback, a puppy does not learn to inhibit the force of its bite. Because all dogs can and will bite at some time, this lesson is vital for human safety. How is this lesson taught? When puppies play with each other, if puppy A bites on puppy B too hard, puppy B will yelp. If that does not work, puppy B will leave. This sends the message to puppy A that its bites were too hard and if he wishes to continue to play, he needs to be gentle. However, people often do not send this message to their puppy. In the beginning, they often allow the puppy to chew on them without reprimands and the puppy assumes that the behavior is acceptable. |
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06-29-2006, 11:35 AM | #2 |
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| EXCELLENT information, Jeanie!!! I will definately be putting this info to good use on our new addition, Hootie, who seems to want to bite anything and everything in her path! |
06-29-2006, 02:35 PM | #3 |
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| my hubby and I always say no biting Kizzy and she will then start licking our hands or feet or where ever she was biting. if she starts again I just wont play with her. She understands what no biting means too. So we started that when she was young and she is doing good but will nip at our hands when playing until she is told. no biting.
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03-29-2011, 08:34 AM | #4 |
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| Mason's Mom Our dog trainer said for the human to "yelp" or just a high pitched noise like another pup would do, then cross your arms and kind of hide your head down like"I'm not gonna play with you anymore if you bite me". Wait until the pup comes over and licks you or gets into a submissive role, then resume playing again. First time I did it, my Mason about freaked out. It didn't take him long to get it at all. I still have to do it from time to time. The issues below should probably be in a different forum or thread but if anyone is reading up above and reads below, maybe you could give some advice. Our big issues are shoes and feet. What a fascination they are. Not when sitting still on the floor, but any movement at all. Then our adult cats. They've been nothing but terrorized since I brought Mason home 4 months ago. It's getting better. The trainer told me to use the "leave-it" command exactly when he begins to chase or begin growling and jumping on them. I'd say we've been 70-80% effective, but not enough for one of my cats to come out at all. Only time he comes out is when my Yorkie is asleep, outside, or at night when he's in his sleep crate. I'd love for him to sleep with me, but he rustles around so much at first, my cats run away, Mason jumps down (the bed is way too tall for him to get back up). Sam |
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