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Originally Posted by westieboy  He's just being a puppy. All the nipping and biting is just playing. If nothing else works like turning your back when this happens, keep him on a lead and put her into another room for a 2 minute time out.
If you want to stop him from jumping on the couch you have to stop him before he gets on the couch. You can train him to only come on the couch when he is invited. |
For me personally, I find time-outs not to really work. But maybe it just didn't work with my dog, I'm sure it could benefit others. I feel like dogs don't really understand the concept of "time out" the way that us humans do. I remember a few times, after Jackson would have an accident or do something bad, I would put him in his x-pen for a time out but quickly realized, he really had NO idea why he was in there, even if I did it right after his wrong-doing. Also, you don't want them to think their crate/xpen/or other source of containment is a BAD thing. It may work in certain instances but not all.