Curb Biting Instincts In Family Pet Dogs

Do you have a pup that bites? Then it is time you took steps 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 in the end, turn into serious and dangerous biting.

No dog owner should have a pup that may harm children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your doggy has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not addressing the problem of your dog biting will undoubtedly end up with both, your dog, and you in serious trouble. If your doggy 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 bad wounds your dog could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being held liable for the damage. In order to keep such things happening to your visitors, you and your doggy, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.

Biting is not acceptable behavior pattern in dogs and is best addressed when the dog is a month or two old. All dogs love to chew, so the first thing to have is an adequate supply of chew toys around. This works a long way into preventing a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its jaws around, because mouthing is the beginning of all biting problems. If your puppy was long enough with its offspring it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to hold back its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will howl. The puppy is confounded and worried at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would screech louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, shunning the biting puppy. This is how puppies get to know that they cannot use that force with their jaws and teeth, and if the puppy bites the mother the third time his mother will turn on him harshly. So the puppy begins to learn from its mother and siblings in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Since we have extracted the puppy from this born training environs, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the pup biting. The method us humans could utilize to execute this training would be to cry in a high-pitched voice every time the puppy tries to 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 mouthing continues, start disregarding the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The pup will soon get to know that biting leads to all the play and affection being halted, and will realize that forceful nipping is not an acceptable behavior pattern.

Another way to stop dog from nipping is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit hard or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not hurt the puppy in any way. It just does not allow it from opening its jaws wide enough to bite anything. The dog will soon discover why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pup owner must never forget, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most severe dog problems, which any canine owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real injurious biting and steps to hinder dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.