Even though I got my Bella at 8 weeks of age (this was before I was on Yorkietalk
), she had learned bite inhibition from her mother--she still chews my fingers, but in a gentle, "gumming" kind of way. On the rare times (maybe twice a week) that she bites harder, I say "ouch!" and turn away, and she knows that she made a mistake and doesn't do it again, at least not right away. But I do provide her with toys that she can chomp down on harder--Nylabone, a tied rope chew, and various small, but durable, stuffed animals. I make sure to schedule some playtime with those toys--I hold on to them and she tries to pull them out of my hands--and that seems to get the heavy biting out of her system. I figure that she's into biting at this stage of her life because her adult teeth are beginning to come in and she feels some irritation in her mouth that she needs to soothe with her biting. She loves it when I let her sit in my lap and chew the Nylabone while I hold on to one end of it so it doesn't keep falling on the floor.