Do you watch "The Dog Whisperer"?!
In a nutshell, he advocates training dogs by being the ALPHA dog yourself. Well, I guess all dog training is about establishing your authority over them, but he's good at really simply making you see things from a dog's eyes.
And when a puppy is playing too hard, and gets carried away with the biting, the mother or bigger/older dog will put him in his place with a bite of their own, usually to the neck, and pinning him down firmly until he gets the point to "settle down, pip-squeak".
So, to translate that to us....Cesar says to use your HAND to apply a firm "bite" hold. I'll do that, and say calmly but firmly, "NO BITE", and hold her until I feel her go limp in submission. Sometimes this takes longer than others, depending on how worked up she is
, but it really is amazing actually how well this works.
I see the difference when my husband is playing with her, and says, "OUCH, don't bite daddy; you're hurting me; why are you biting so hard", etc etc. Why do we think dogs will understand that?! Even if you pick one term, like "No Biting"---why do we automatically expect them to understand what that means?! We have to speak THEIR language first, and then they can LEARN to associate the words with what we want. So that eventually saying "No bite" in my no nonsense tone will be good enough, and I won't have to actually apply the pinch.
Boy, I'm really sleeping typing this, and I know I'm totally rambling. Sorry....hope it made some sense!