Hi all,

Just wondering what you all did for puppy biting?

Boz bites...everything! He nips Tash on the back of her legs so he tries to do the same to us. If you pat him, pick him up or sit down with he just tries to mouth your arm, hand, any part of you or your clothing!

I have tried giving him the right things to chew on, yelping like he does in a very high pitch, tried holding his muzzle gently and saying a deep NO, tried pushing his face gently to the ground, grabbing some fur... i have run out of ideas!!

He isn't destroying things, just biting.

He is about 11 weeks now and hopefully he'll grow out of it eventually but at the same time i want to get it under control now so he doesn't take it through with him as he grows.

http://www.dogstardaily.com/videos/puppy-biting

http://www.dogstardaily.com/training/puppy-biting

These are a good place to start for information. Being consistent with whatever method you use is also the best approach. Have you trained a sit yet, because you can ask for another behaviour before he starts in on your hands, feet whatever he's after. Distraction therapy as in throwing a toy etc can help. Also if he's so worked up you can remove yourself from the room for 30 secs or so or you can give him a timeout for about the same length of time in a toilet, bathroom, somewhere boring. If you're using a crate don't use if for timeouts, the crate is a good place to be not used for punishments.

This is the thread I started when Paxy was a pup. I think it had been so long since I'd had a pup I was a little blown away with just how "active" Paxy was. I have to say now that her bite inhibition is really good. My son likes to wrestle with her, a very typical male thing and actually not something to encourage, I do try to discourage it, sigh. But she shows great inhibition even when riled up with him. She's exceptionally good with other dogs too, even if I say so myself!
http://koolie.net/exons/index.php?showtopic=1394&st=0

Being consistent with whatever method you use, that is the main key i just use the same thing their mums do grab their muzzle quick and firm push their muzzle to the ground and growl, if you do it gentle the first time and they take not notice do it a bit harder the next time and your growl believable a good deep arrrrrrrrtt does the job every time well that works for me kody and his litter mates were always playing tug a war on my jeans i don't stop them from doing this until they start to leave holes in my jeans then i start to back them of by doing the muzzle and growl and it only took a couple of times for them to stop now i have one very good little boy who listens to what i say because he knows that i am alfa to him and he is not scared of me because i have never hurt him just put him in his place

I have found that a deep NO is the most effective "tone" and it is also what Tash knows so I wanted to try and keep the training terms the same so as not to confuse them and us.

Last night I tried holding and pushing a bit harder on his muzzle and that seemed to be a bit more effective. I'll stick with that and see how it pans out.
I think a lot of it comes from over excitement after he's been playing with Tash. He gets so worked up and then he just launches himself into playing with our clothes etc.

Once i tell him NO, I divert his attention to his chew toy and once he's noshing away on that, i pat him and say good boy.

He knows how to "sit" and if i ask him to he will but then when i go to praise him with a "good boy" and a pat, he goes for the fingers!

When raz was a baby, every time he grabbed us with his mouth we would push him to the ground and growl at him then leave him alone, now he is mostly good, sometime he still manages to grab us i think by accident, though i've been told there are no accidents... so soon as he does we do the "ouch" and he gets a time out