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Do you have a puppy that bites? Then it is time you took measures to stop a puppy from biting. There is great risk in allowing it to continue, just because you feel it is only nipping. Playful nipping will ultimately, turn into serious and dangerous biting.
No dog owner should have a pup that may injure children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your pup has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not correcting the problem of your dog biting will surely end up with both, your pet, and you in serious trouble. If your pup is apt to bite and manages to get out alone, it can bite a child or even an adult passing on the street, and if the bite causes serious injury your doggy could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being taken to court. In order to stop such things happening to your friends, you and your dog, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.
Biting is a negative behavior pattern in dogs and is best corrected when the dog is very young. All pups love to chew, so the first thing to have is an ample supply of chew toys around. This helps a long way into preventing a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its teeth around, because mouthing is the commencement of all biting problems. If your puppy was long enough with its cubs it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to repress its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will howl. The puppy is surprised and concerned at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would cry louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, disregarding the biting puppy. This is how puppies learn that they cannot use that pressure with their jaws and teeth, and if the puppy bites the mother the third time his mother will turn on him with anger. So the puppy begins to learn from its mother and elders in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.
Since we have extracted the puppy from this inherited training environs, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the puppy biting. The way us humans could make use of to implement this training would be to screech in a high-pitched voice every time the pup tries to hold with its mouth or bite any part of our body or even clothing. A little bit of stretching the truth would help to get the point across. If the biting continues, start disregarding the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The puppy will soon work out that biting leads to all the amusement and affection being halted, and will realize that forceful snapping is not correct behavior pattern.
Another technique to stop doggy from biting is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit harsh or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not harm the puppy in any way. It just hinders it from opening its chops wide enough to bite anything. The dog will soon understand why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pet owner must bear in mind, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most serious dog problems, which any dog owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real injurious biting and steps to inhibit dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.
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