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Originally Posted by YorkieMother  Firstly and fore most dogs are not humans and we are not dogs and we need to get away from snapping at them with our hands as a quote mother dog would or doing anything to cause it pain or discomfort in the name of training it or correcting a bhaviour... that puppy knows you are not its mother and if you poke at it, snap at it, roll its lip in so it bites itself yell at it all you are going to get is a scared puppy.
Try removing yourself, try removing it. walk away. the best punisher of a dog is to ignore it and only pay attention to it when its teeth are not on you. Pass it something better to chew on then you even if the better thing is doctored with something yummy and only give it attention when it chewing on the right object.
What you give attention to even you will get more of even if it is the behaviour we do not want.
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The yelping, snapping, and nipping, is the language that they understand. It does not injur them. It startles them and lets them know that you mean business.
No they do not know that you are not a dog. They look to you for leadersip and guidance just as they would to their mother or a pack leader.
They do not understand human behavior, and all those words, they understand body language and dog behavior.
You contradict yourself. On one hand you say to give it something yummy to chew on to getit to stop chewing on you, on the other hand you ssy to praise it when it is chewing on something besides you.
Giving it something yummy is to reward the bad behavior.
and what are you do to if the dog is relentless and insists on following you and chewing on you, and does not want whatever else you are offering to it.
An instantanious quick correction will gets it's attention. Once it stops, then count to three and praise it.