It's pretty normal for puppies to bite and for it to take a while to train them out of it. Patient persistence is the key. It's instinctual for dogs to use their teeth in much of what they do, when eating, chewing bones/chewies, as a form of scratching something that itches, when playing with each other and with toys and things and it's difficult at first for them to go against instinct and learn not to bite humans.
Just like it's instinctive for us to automatically wipe our nose when it runs - it's instinctive for most of us. (Bad analogy, I know but it's all I could think of quickly) What if suddenly we weren't allowed to do it? It would take a while to unlearn doing what comes naturally and even after we'd learned, we'd occasionally relapse into the old habit.
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