My 13-week-old is nuts, too. Sometimes he just gets a burst of energy and runs around the house like a madman. He is a biter/chewer and this has been bad (he does not respond to any of the popular forms of discipline). He actually will sink his teeth in deeper when you tell him no or try to get him to loosen his grip. He's also "sassing," growling at me when he does not get his way. Needless to say, we are off to puppy obedience class as soon as he gets his final round of shots. The vet told me to put him down when he is biting and ignore him. This takes repeated tries, but he does do a little better. I've actually put him in "time out" in his playpen a couple of nights in a row recently when he was just over-the-top bad. Three times each night. The third night he was less bad. He's very stubborn and willful sometimes -- is this a terrier trait?
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