Quick Methods to Stop Biting Puppies
If you wish to help a puppy ditch the habit of nipping at your ankles or outstretched hands, try out the following tested and proven steps. Experts estimate that these steps will show the dog that there is no fun in biting you.
When the puppy is almost at your hand (but without waiting for the feel of its bite), sound off with an abrupt, loud, and piercing noise. This noise will be very similar to what all puppies make when a littermate or family member were to hurt it.
The expected result would be that the dog would withdraw its mouth, and give you a confused look, as if asking what it did to hurt you. At this point, offer the dog a toy it can focus on; praise the dog if it takes the ball. These steps will help your dog realize that it is no fun at all biting you.
Be ready to give the puppy some allowance of time before it catches on to your point. Aside from this, you will need to control your emotions too; your puppy would improve more rapidly if it does not see you in a fit just because it is slow to pick up. But the above steps would create an impact because they seek to tell your dog to stop doing something that hurts. Correction is never for scaring, but for shaping the dog’s behavior so it gets used to doing what is acceptable in society. Your efforts to stop biting puppies is just a case in point.
The problem with not taking action soon is that it simply paves the way to yet more bad manners. Puppies have a poor memory of things (even if only five minutes passed!), puppies are deprived of learning that nipping is not good. At the roots of puppy biting is instinct, and if this is left unchecked, a puppy starts nurturing a crude habit. So start stopping puppy biting as soon as you can!
The same idea of correction can get applied to other undesirable behavior. One worthwhile mentioning here is some dogs’ tendency to jump on people. Nothing could possibly be cuter than a puppy jumping to reach your leg; but it is not, in the case of a playful Great Dane, or a Pyrenees! So get your act together and just walk past the puppy or dog trying to rest its weight on you. This will encourage the desirable behavior, and teach the dog to wait for you to express your greeting.
