Hi, Here's some advice I posted for someone else on biting. Your dog's still a teenager - he'll try to test his boundaries. My boy was great for the first 6-8 months then he turned into a disobedient terror til he was two. (Neutering helped!)
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If he starts biting put him in another room for time out for 5 minutes (a room with no toys is good so that all he has to do is wonder why he's in there) don't talk to him or anything just quickly and calmly scoop him up and put him in the other room.
After 5 mins let him out, don't talk to him when you let him out, just continue to ignore him. If he starts biting again put him straight back in the time out room immediately. It may take a few goes but I'm pretty sure he'll quickly figure out "I bite = I get put in the boring time out place. I don't want to go into the boring time out place so I won't bite." But for him to make the connection between biting and timeout you have to be quick off the mark and AS SOON AS he bites it's STRAIGHT into time out)
If you let him out and he just calmly plays with you that's when you give LOTS and LOTS of praise.
Bad behaviour should be met with zero tolerance, don't talk or yell just silently pick him up and give him a time out. You may have to repeat this 3-4 times each time over a few weeks but I promise you it will work! Just be consistent.
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This approach worked wonders for Dixie and her biting.
You don't have to get an expensive one-on-one trainer. You can train your dog - yourself there's plenty of great web resources and there's loads of stuff on YT to help with training - here's a link to some fun things to teach your dog:
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sho...072#post629072
Hope this helps! Keep us posted!