[JadeD]

So cute at that age!!!! He is just being a puppy. You need to train him, but right now he is just a baby.

Someone suggested exactly what I was going to do, yelp when he bites you or say OUCH in a really high pitched voice. This is how litter mates let each other know it was too rough. This would have been taught him by his litter mates and mom if he had stayed with his mom for a longer amount of time. Now it is up to you to teach it to him. I got 2 puppies last May and they already knew this for the most part, I just had to re-enforce it and now they can chew on my hand and they will NOT hurt me in any way. My puppy does like to chew at my hand but he never leaves a mark or makes me yip. He knows exactly how hard he can bite down because I YIPPED when he bit too hard.

If he is biting at your face you need to remove him from being near your face. Mine tried to bite my ear once and I let out a huge high pitched ouch and removed the puppy from being near my ear. Now they only lick my ears.

This baby needs direction and you have to teach it, patiently, how to behave. It is really too young to start teaching commands in my opinion, but at 10-14 weeks it can learn sit. Keep working with it on sit and when it masters sit then teach it down. Let the puppy master the new command and keep going over ones it learned daily and then add a new one in. Mine were worked with at 10 weeks but really didn't pick up on what I wanted until about 12 weeks or so and then learned well after that.

Love it, but don't let it get away with biting, that is not a good habit for a puppy to have. My puppy still enjoys my hand almost like a pacifier, but that is something that I allow as long as he doesn't hurt me and he is 13 months old and just adores me. The other puppy gave up that kind of behavior on her own after her adult teeth came in.

Good luck and enjoy the puppy. It will soon be grown and hopefully well behaved. It really is just being a puppy! Also, watch your feet, mine loved to bite my feet and I would yelp or say ouch and they would stop, but if they didn't I removed my feet from the situation so they were not there for them to bite. I have never hit my dogs and don't like to raise my voice at them and they are wonderful. Sometimes distraction is the best way. If he is biting at you then give him a toy and encourage him to bite it.

Humping is just how a puppy plays sometimes. One of my puppies did it and the other did not. I just ignored it really and he rarely tries to hump anything (he is fixed). The growling is probably playing. You should have heard my 2 puppies playing, they would growl and make the worst sounds, but they were just playing with each other. Even now they will growl while playing tug of war over a toy and it is nothing serious, it is just play. If you can learn the difference between a play growl and a viscous growl that will be good. At 9 weeks old I don't believe a puppy can be viscous. Playful and funny and not well behaved, but not mean.

Good luck!!!