Why Is She Biting ME!!!

[chloe'smom]

My baby Beauty has been nothing but the perfect puppy since I got her a few weeks ago. Now all of a sudden she is biting and I don't mean "Play" biting. I have always been told that a dogs' teeth should not be allowed to come in direct contact with human skin and for the past 3 weeks I have been training her not to bite PERIOD. I say Ouch in a louder than usual tone and stop playing with her for a few seconds and it seemed as if she was getting the hang of it, but on several occassions today she has snapped at me and I don't know why. She is still her normal playful self except for the biting. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong because I want to correct this problem before it gets any further.

Thanks

[simonandhallie]

Is she teething? Have you tried giving her something to chew on while she's teething (if she is). I have also heard people say to yelp like a hurt puppy when she does it and she will stop. I'm sure you will find a ton of advice here (more than I can give). Good Luck.

[ldenise]

Ahia did the same thing. I did the same kind of correction that you are doing. this was after doing a stern NO. It took some time but she finally came out of it.
and...
Archie , my , I thought I was going to have a mean one on my hands! But he snapped out of it in no time at all. I just let him know it was not the thing to do. stern NO did fine for him.
good luck and keep up what you are doing if you are making progress.

[chloe'smom]

When do they normally teethe? She is only about to be 11 weeks on Wednesday. I bought her a cow hoof and she is not the least bit interested in it! I will keep up what I am doing but as of right now I think I need an alternative! I read somewhere that if she did that to close her mouth for about 3 seconds and say NO BITE! But that only seemed to make her even more aggressive.

Thanks for all of your advice I will sure try whatever you guys tell me to do!

[babyface]

We used the "hold their mouth closed for a couple seconds and say NO BITE" technique and it worked on all three of our pups. Your pup will be teething until it has all of it's adult teeth in. Good luck.

Kim

[deb4air]

I used some distravtion on MIni like got her intrested in a toy instead of me to bite on and I noticed it was one way she would try to get me to play with her so I noticed things like that and now she seldom bites , hang in there ..its part of puppyhood~

[Shanatink]

Originally Posted by chloe'smom

My baby Beauty has been nothing but the perfect puppy since I got her a few weeks ago. Now all of a sudden she is biting and I don't mean "Play" biting. I have always been told that a dogs' teeth should not be allowed to come in direct contact with human skin and for the past 3 weeks I have been training her not to bite PERIOD. I say Ouch in a louder than usual tone and stop playing with her for a few seconds and it seemed as if she was getting the hang of it, but on several occassions today she has snapped at me and I don't know why. She is still her normal playful self except for the biting. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong because I want to correct this problem before it gets any further.

Thanks

CHloe used to do this. She was teething and my fingers apparently felt really good to naw on . You need to buy a rubber nylabone. CHloe loves chewing on those and they feel nice and rubbery to chew on and they dont eat them therefore they last forever. They are flavored so dogs like to chew on them. They have some that are edible but if you can find the rubber one, that is what I like the best. Its hard to find.

[chloe'smom]

Originally Posted by babyface

We used the "hold their mouth closed for a couple seconds and say NO BITE" technique and it worked on all three of our pups. Your pup will be teething until it has all of it's adult teeth in. Good luck.

Kim

I will try to continue to use this technique. It just seemed to really make her upset, but I guess that is why I should do it to let her know that I mean business when I say NO BITE! Thanks everyone. I will definitely keep you all posted on her progress!

[Shanatink]

Petco carries the chicken flavored flexible nylabone: http://www.petco.com/Shop/petco_Prod...lyID_2114.aspx

[Bailey's Peeps]

Originally Posted by chloe'smom

. . . I say Ouch in a louder than usual tone and stop playing with her for a few seconds . . .

That has worked pretty well for us (Bailey's not completely over the playful nipping, but I sort of figured that would be a battle for a while). When she snapped at you, was she acting hurt or threatened at all?

Recently Bailey has started something that we laugh at so hard, it's hard to decide how to handle it - or if it needs to be handled at all. Instead of biting (even playfully), she will give a few "air bites" (like air kisses, they don't come anywhere close to contact - usually at least an inch or two away from any skin surface) and then she'll start licking. It's really funny to watch, but I don't know if it should be stopped. Right now, I'm just laughing and enjoying it.

[kaymo]

When Bentley was a puppy he used to play bite alot and his sharp little baby teeth hurt so I enrolled him in puppy kindergarden (obedience class) at Petsmart. The trainer said to say "no bite" calmly but firmly, stop playing and walk away from him when he bites. Then wait a few minutes and go back to play with him so he can "learn" not to bite or "mouth: as they call it. It worked pretty quickly, too. The trainer said not to close their mouth and say no bite and don't tap his nose either. This just confuses them and it's a dog's natural reaction to want to bite after being tapped or having thier mouth held shut. Good luck with your puppy.

[MyTrixie143]

Originally Posted by chloe'smom

I will try to continue to use this technique. It just seemed to really make her upset, but I guess that is why I should do it to let her know that I mean business when I say NO BITE! Thanks everyone. I will definitely keep you all posted on her progress!

Nooo, please please do not use this technique. The only thing you will accomplish by doing this is make resent you and bite you even more and harder. Some dogs it may work with, but I have seen ALOT of dogs that became aggressive using this technique.

When she bites you yelp like a wounded puppy (make sure it sounds like a puppy yelping, use a high pitch in your voice), saying ouch or no in a firm voice will not work, they don't understand this. You have to speak their language to get them to stop. If you have ever watched a group of puppies play, you will notice that if one puppy is being too rough and bites the other puppy too hard that the puppy will yelp and the one that is being rough will back off. The rough one soon realizes that if it wants to play with the other puppy that he has to be gentle, otherwise the other puppy wants nothing to do with him and will not play with him until he can learn to be gentle.

So everytime your pup bites you, yelp and move away from your puppy and ignore her for a few minutes. Then try again and if she bites you again repeat this method, with the yelping being dramatic and increase the amount of time that you move away from her and ignore her. You ever heard a small puppy yelp hysterically when it gets bit or scratched?? Try your best to make it sound like that. Your pup will soon realize that "wow humans are really sensitive" and that if she wants you to play with her or just be around her, that she has to be gentle and not bite you. It takes sometime, but they will pick it up real quickly and won't bite you anymore.

This is the most successful way of teaching her not to bite. I have trained all of my dogs on this concept and many other customer's dog this way and it is highly successful, more successful then any of the other techniques many people have tried. You are speaking her language and she will get the message that you are trying to tell her. I wish you the best of luck with your training!!!

Also, since she is probably teething, try having lots of things for her to chew on, they have teethers for dogs that you can stick in the freezer and the puppies love to chew on them and they probably feel good on their teeth and gums.

[SnowWa]

Oh - the "teething stage" -- the only good thing about it is that they finally get through it.

I did all the things that everyone else does and then some -- Everything helps a little. I remember having a full-size blanket on the sofa that I covered my whole body up with every night - so I wouldn't get bitten and chewed to death. I think some nights only my face looked out so that I could watch TV.

But - we survived - amd my pup passed through that "wonderful stage" and has quit biting and chewing on me 100%.

All I can say is "have patience," get your pup a lot of things to chew on, and cover yourself well.

Carol Jean

[PlatinumYorkies]

Get that baby a Hoof.....

[Tophersmom]

I watched a dog expert talk about this on tv the other day. He said that a dog who does this needs to be put in his proper place in the 'pack', so the best thing to do to rectify this is to hand feed your dog for the next little while. It helps greatly if you get your dog to do something for each morsel or every other morsel (ie, sit )
Doing this shows the dog that he/she isn't the leader of the pack as he/she is relying on you (the leader) for food.