To learn how to deal with a puppy’s biting like a dog trainer would is to understand the puppy’s first imprinting from his mother and litter mates.Because we are dealing with a pack animal, we must first understand that we must take the time to establish a pack order, this can be a very easy thing to accomplish if you set your mind to it.
The first thing is to understand this is normal:
When puppies play with each other, they use their mouths. Therefore, puppies usually want to bite or “mouth” hands during play or when being petted. With puppies, this is rarely aggressive behavior in which the intent is to do harm. Because puppies are highly motivated to exhibit this type of behavior, attempts to suppress it or stop it are unlikely to be successful unless you redirect this behavior or take the time to train it out of them. Puppies bite and chew and need social interaction to develop behavior patterns.We must take short period of time out of our busy day interact with our beloved companion and friend.
Encourage acceptable behavior:
Redirect your puppy’s chewing onto an acceptable object, by offering them their play toys or chew bones.
Discourage unacceptable behavior:
You must teach your puppy to be gentle, at the time of your puppy nipping or biting you must redirect or correct this behavior, a correction to a puppy is not to hit or yell, you must set your puppy up to succeed with a positive response to this correction.
Making a correction: First make sure your puppy has gotten use to a nylon or leather collar. Put your dog on a leash connected to your pups collar, let your pup get use to the leash.You may let them drag the leash around for a couple of minutes or more.Take the time to discourage this behavior by using the leash to give a correction, by giving a light snap or pull on the leash each time your puppy starts biting you will be discouraging this behavior.Now remember when making a correction we must find the tolerance level of our pup, which means make a suitable correction based on your consistency of trying to train this out of your pup, meaning the more time you take the less the correction will have to be.We base a correction on a 1 to 4 level, 1 being the lowest and 4 being the highest, you should always start at a lowest correction and work your way up until you change your dogs behavior.When making your correction say the word “NO” each time your puppy makes this mistake, simply snap on the leash while simultaneously telling him “NO”. The instant the puppy stops the undesired behavior, “ Lavishly praise your pup.Then it’s very important to allow them to make this mistake again, so that you may correct them again, thus teaching them to avoid making the same mistake in the future. Most Important thing is to be extremely consistent!
