about bitting

[kikil]

we have tryed the magazines and she want to play with it and try to chew on it if we let her. she is really hard headed one. but this time around we are not going to give up and let things go either.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Well, you are working at it. Try that can of pennies or those ultra light-weight containers - whatever it turns out she doesn't like - and when she learns her biting causes that to happen, I'll bet she will defer. Do you have a loud whistle you could blow when she bites? Or you could put pennies in a 12 oz. plastic cola bottle with a lid on it - just something loud or falling that will distract her but can't hurt her and cause her to associate her biting with causing this noise or falling to happen. Good luck with your efforts!

[kikil]

no I don't have a loud whistle but I do say no bit loud but that don't seem to be working to much either. but I will thinking about trying the other things u said and see if a different loud noise might work. I just hope that something work soon.

[yorkietalkjilly]

And another thing I use when really letting a small-to-midsize biting or door-darting dog know I mean business is to keep constant eye contact with them after the "no" command is given. It's often taking the time to stand your ground with a dog that is misbehaving and and stare him down that can get a silent but strong message to them after interrupting the bite & giving a verbal command to stop it. If you watch a momma dog or pack leader with the troop, it will often discipline the misbehaving dog and stare him down to underline the message. The dog doing the discipline doesn't just nip or cuff the miscreant and go on about its other business - no, it stands there or advances some toward the offender, sending the rest of its message with its eyes and its looming presence. Try to mirror that message yourself. With a little dog or timid dog, you don't want to scare or intimidate them into fright but you do want to send a serious message that attack biting is never to be tolerated. I would not try these same techniques with a big, powerful biting dog.

[kikil]

it's hard to do the eye contact when u can't really see her and sometime she run off from me but I will try my best to try the eye contact when we can.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Hook a leash to her harness then during training at first. Once you have established you are her leader and she respects you, she won't run away even if she doesn't like what is happening during the exercise of discipline. Tibbe used to try to escape any unpleasantness but the leash kept him in place & once true behavior modification starts to kick in, they learn not to fear but respect & love you. They won't slink off or run when your relationship is correctly established. They trust you are never going to hurt or scare them but are establishing your leadership, not domination. They accept that as dogs are used to having a pack type leader. They do better when they aren't the one in charge in a human-canine relationship. Every dog I have trained eventually learned to accept discipline because no fear went with it - only learning & respect & love when all was said & done. Lots of lovin' & praise for working with me when we were done.

[kikil]

sometime she still run on the leash or at lest she try to any way. but it still other idea to try if the others don't work

[yorkietalkjilly]

Oh sure they still run at first on the leash but they can't run off so you can patiently and matter-of-factly place her back before you. They learn it won't do any good to keep running - that you will just patiently step forward and get them and that they have to stay there. Once you have started to actually modify her behavior and she is used to minding you, she will stop trying to run and and "stay" when you tell her to. Training a dog not to misbehave is a series of repetitive, patient and loving corrections that many won't take the time to do or lose their temper the 15th time the dog tries to bolt. Only the determined but patient and caring trainer will persist and gently keep at it until the little thing begins to relax, not fear and starts to get the message that mom is just trying to teach me something and hey, I think I'm getting it. They like that part so much because it always makes mom smile and talk sweetly and give them the nicest praises. And eventually they learn faster to listen to and try to do what you teach them. Before long, if you've kept it loving and fun, they want to do what you say 98 - 99% of the time just because that's the way it is now - they have learned almost by rote to just pay attention and do what you say cause it works for them - they get happy rewards and great satisfaction working as a team with you. Don't lose hope because your little one may be a sort of a mess right now - you can help her and make her a much more happy and enjoyable pet.
Just keep at it, don't expect too much from any one session and stay loving and positive.

[kikil]

I am keeping things up this time. I am working on the leash walking and leave it this week. but still going to work with the bitting too. but I think I am going to try the leamon if that spelled right and see if she like that. but I did find hand sanitizer smell that she don't like . I did put it a little bit on my hand and she wouldn't lick it off like the other one that I hand on right before it she just licked right away. so I am going to try them both over the week before class next week and see if that will help. and getting help from u and other on here has helped me out too. at lest I am not alone with this. some people we have talked to say there don't do it but one person said they have older onces so that could be a reason. and some say there use to do that when they was little or that they may do it ever now and then. and one person said that she will do this till she is a year or about a year or little over something like that. is that right would she stop at a year or go longer then a year I am not to sure. I know she will do it while she is teething still am I right about that one too.

[yorkietalkjilly]

If she is still teething, biting is kind of second nature and teaching her now not to bite you is pretty important as those teeth are pretty sharp while dogs are still quite young. If the spray works, use it by all means. Sometimes screaming out when they bite will stop them. When I got Tibbe at 9 mos., he was all done teething so I think she will be done before 9 mos. of so, unless she has developed the biting from bad habit. Be sure she has some toys and Nylabones, etc., to chew on to satisfy that chew instinct. Good luck with your training this weekend! Let us know how you did and have a great weekend.

[kikil]

she been bitting since we got her she was 9 weeks when we got her. we have tryed the spray's but the anit-bacterial that has nice smell to it like winder cranberry to it. but I hope she does stop at 9 months that means we only have 2 months left since she will be 8 months on the 21 of this month. I really hope she does and we don't have to wait till she a year old to stop bitting. yes it does hurt sometime and she think it's a game at it. I hope she learn better this time around then last time. but she just seem so much heard head this time around too. but one thing she is doing much better at is going on the puppy pad. but we do take her out when it's not to cold or other bad weather. we just want her to listen to us when we call her name that is other big thing we have wrong with her.

[gracielove]

Does she have good chew toys to chew on like bully sticks? Do you have kids that run and play with her maybe? Sometimes a dog that likes to bite has triggers that make them think it is alright to do that. My Gracie was quite a biter when she was a puppy. I had never had a puppy as aggressive as she was. I had to keep her calm and make sure that my grand kids didn't play with her with their hands. The main thing with her though was to keep her calm. If we played with her should get too wound up and it just made her aggression come out more. I would also have a rolled up news paper near by. No, I never hit her with it but I would bang it on my hand if she was acting up. I suppose it worked like the can of pennies that some people use. She knew I meant business when I banged that newspaper on my hand.

She really is a well behaved dog today but it took a lot of consistent work the first year. She still gets in her terrorist mode sometimes but she takes it out on her toys and not my hands or ankles. Having the bully sticks around has helped a lot too. Sometimes when she is all charged up about something she will grab her stick and start chewing like crazy on it. After a few minutes she has calmed down and is fine. I think some of these little ones still have a lot of terrier instinct in them and you just have to learn to redirect their energy.

[kikil]

we have toys for her and hard ones and we think she can't chew it up and she does. we try to give her a toy when she is bitting if we can. and no we don't have kids in this house there are kids next door that are out to play. but she don't play with them she just broke if thats how u spell it at them or if someone outside when she see them sometime she does that when she is in her playpin/bed when we are in my parent room watching tv with mom but she can see the bathroom from where she is at. but there is no one in the bathroom at the time either. we do use the newpapper but lot of the time she think it a play toy and want to go after. but the teacher tonight said try it hitting it on the wall. I might try that. just getting her to listen is the big thing still. but at time she seem to listen and other time not. at first mom thought that there was something wrong with her earing but it don't seem so when we get in to her bag of food she come run like anything for that.

[SusanN]

Originally Posted by kikil

but lot of the time she does it when we have our hand ful with something. thats when she think it's alright to go for our feet

Firmly say, "No!" if your hands are full. What I do is put my stuff down and get the water bottle and spray Jasper and firmly I say, "No, or Bad Dog!"

[kikil]

I try to be firmly with the no but it just don't seem to work. it could be my voice or something. but I am still trying to be more firmly one of this day she will listen or at list I hope she will