my alexander is 4 months old and i told my husband do not play rough because i remember when my basset hound was a puppy they love it. but of course men don't listen and at night when i'm asleep my husband is playing not rough but, putting his hands in his face letting him naw on his fingers. then the next morning when my husband was at work--i stay at home i noticed alexander was nawing on my pant legs and barking at me, i picked him up and of course started nawing on my fingers barking at me and this was just after one night when my husband did this. when my husband got home from work i layed it on him--he admitted and when he picked up alexander he started again nawing, but my husband wasn't in the mood at that time. so--we say no alexander no bite bad bad boy--as he's tilting his head--and it really seems like he knows what your saying. i don't punish him by swating him with a paper , i take him in the kitchen and show him his good boy treat and say, no-you've been a bad bad boy-then we pick him up and he slowly slarts to naw then i say no real loud then he licks me. now after 3 weeks he rarely naws and when he does bark at us we get his toy and play tug a war telling to play with his toys not our fingers. have many different types of toys because they do like to play. so this was so long i forgot i was writing |