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Originally Posted by yorkiepuppie  actually i try to get them to bite me (my hand) on purpose to work with them to make sure they develop "soft mouth". it's what i learned from puppy school-make the puppies bite you very softly so they learn bite inhibition and never snap or bite people too hard no matter what happens.
i knew a dog who would put her own lips over her teeth when she bites people, it's so cute! |
He should NEVER put his teeth on a human.. The reason his personlity changed when he came to your house is because he is insecure. And he needs strong leadership. he got to your house and no one was serving the role as pack leader so he took the job.
By allowing him to chew on you, you are definitely NOT showing him tht you are the pack ledeer.
Think of him as very insecure foster child, and no one is showing him what to do. He is being allowed to misbehave, so he does not know where his boundries are. His actions are going to continue to get worse uintil you have said enough already and start to teach him boundries.
I suggest going to
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Dogs do not understand TIMEOUT the only corrections a dog understands are instantanious. By picking him up to take him, to time out, he is associating being picked up (a reward) with the behavior he was doing at the time. and the being put in his crate (a punishment) for being good while you carried him to the crate.
You have tro know how a dog thinks. They do not reason, they do not understand human language and they only relate actions to what happens right that second. 5 seconds later is too late.
Think of them as infant, they do not understand language and you cannot explain why you are putting them in crate. They only know association. What happens immediately after I have done this or while I am doing it. I bit my sister and then I got picked up. I didn't do asnything while she held me, then I got put in my crate.
Lesson learned. bite sister more and squirm and bite after being picked up, or run when she tries to pick me up. Which people would think that means they knew they were doing wrong, but instead they are running because they know you are going to put them in the crate, and they do not associate it with the biting their sister at all.