How to Stop Your Puppy from Biting You

If your household has a new puppy, I am sure that you have been the victim of his sharp little teeth. Obvious targets are your hands and feet, any shoes laying around, and basically everything else, too.Below are some common sense tips that will help you stop your puppy from biting you and your household, and making sure his chewing is not as much of an issue.

• First of all, get your puppy some chew toys to play with. He’s teething, so he’s going to have to bite something, and these chew toys are the perfect substitutes for your hands and feet.  When your puppy begins to play rough and starts biting your hands you should stop your puppy from biting you by holding his mouth closed with your hand. You should  keep his mouth closed until he becomes submissive and accepts your hand over his mouth without struggling. He will probably not be happy about this, but keep him calm with your voice and hold him still. Firmly tell him “no biting”- but without raising your voice. You want to use the calm but firm voice so he doesn’t become nervous and continue resisting longer.

  The sooner he relaxes, the sooner he will submit. After be calms down and becomes submissive you should offer him a chew toy.  Get him to take the chew toy in his mouth, and then give him lots of praise and affection.Every time you play with the pup, repeat giving him the chew toy as needed and he will soon associate the praise-the positive reinforcement- with chewing on the approved chew toy.It  probably will take some time to sink in, but meanwhile stay patient and don’t ever hit or yell at the puppy for play biting during the interim it takes to get your pup to stop biting. This type of negative reinforcement will hurt you progress with training your puppy by undermining his trust and confidence in you.For the best results, make sure the whole family knows to only use the positive reinforcement techniques. When someone around the puppy yells or hits him for playing rough, it serves to confuse and hurt your training efforts in the long run.

• To stop a lot of unwanted biting and chewing buy your puppy, keep him in his crate when you can’t supervise him directly. If the puppy is allowed to wander the house without anyone watching he will surely attack his favorite targets. Put some chew toys inside his crate with him, so he can chew to his heart’s content safely.

• Common sense alone tells you some easy ways to stop the pup from chewing easy to get at goodies. A simple example is to put all your shoes and slippers (historically favorite targets) into a closed room or closet.

• Borrow a trick form Mama dog to let the puppy know he is biting too hard. The way to do this is by yelping in a high pitched voice when he bites you. You might feel sort of silly, but this is one way Mama Dog  gets a puppy’s attention and stops the puppy from biting her.

• A more vigorous demonstration that you want him to stop biting is to hold his mouth shut with your hand and at the same time stare him in the eyes and give him a growl or snarl. This is one of the ways Mama dogs send a very clear message to the pup.

• You probably won’t want to grab the puppy by the scruff of the neck with your teeth the way a Mama dog does, but there is no reason not to use your hand to hold him still and show him who is boss until he submits. Stick with the correction until the puppy is totally submissive-that is how you  will really know he’s received the message about listening to the boss-by being submissive and relaxed.

• In order to discourage your puppy from biting, don’t play rough house games (such as tug of war and wrestling) with him. I always used to do both those rough games with my puppies, and consequently always used to have bloody hands and wrists and forearms. I didn’t realize at the time the rough playing was not a good idea because it could increase his aggression level.

I hope these tips are useful to get a grip on your puppy’s biting problem. Please click here to see more great dog training tips www.BehaveDoggy.com.

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