Sunday, March 14, 2010

Bad Puppy!!?

I have a 3 month old St. Bernard/German Shepard Mix. Shes a "normal' puppy. If you dont watch her she'll chew on ANYTHING.The one HUGE issue with her is she bites ALOT! Any chance she sees an opening shes going for your arm,clothes or something you have in your hand. And I know its not aggressive biting. She does growl or bite like she wants blood. Just always "mouthing" and its starting to get annoying. Not with her b/c i understand shes a pup but just for the fact we tell her NO and she doesn't care. We've tried making a noise to just get her attention but NOTHING. She just wants to play with her teeth and her CLAWS. Let me tell you shes got huge paws and it hurts to get hit with them in the face! Also shes in a cage now when we are not home and she does perfect!!!! No whining or using the bathroom in it PERFECT. But if you have to go the bathroom and you shut the door and she cant come in she whines and scraches the door. We eventually want to leave her out when we are gone. Help!

Bad Puppy!!?
I am a vet tech and teach puppy classes.


For your puppy to understand what it is you are telling her you must communicate with her in a way she understands. Yelping like a puppy as her littermates and mother would do is the best way to let her know. Your puppy needs to learn bite inhibition. You should never allow your puppy to "mouth" you. It is too difficult for her to understand it is okay for that but not when she gets too excited or weights 80-100 pounds.


See below for excellent information on this issue and good luck!
Reply:Keep telling her no. Always use no, dont change it every 3 yells at her as it will confuse her. offcourse she doesnt understand she is a baby and doesnt know human language yet. Tell her no and ignore her for a minute so eh eventually relizes that she will not get attention if she claws at you or bites you.
Reply:Get hr some chew toys and spray her with water everytime she bites
Reply:Time along with consistent "reminders" are the only things to break her of this. Give her about 3 more months, lots of rubber toys and bones (replacing your arms and fingers with them every time she mouths or bites), and consistent reminders. She will also eat your walls in a few weeks to months... Only way to break her of that is to catch her in the act. TRUST me. I trained my Shiba Inu this way. They are one of the most stubborn breeds ever... But she did it! Best of luck!
Reply:On the biting you can squeeze the bridge of her nose and she will usually let go, reinforce it with NO!. if you can't get her to stop LIGHTLY flick her in the nose. It will get her attention, and make her eyes water, she will learn quickly. You can also put hot sauce on anything you don't want her to chew on and it will stop her from doing so, unless she really likes hot sauce.
Reply:hit her on the nose when she bites etc.


try teaching her tricks/playing with her/walking her she might just be to a.d.d!
Reply:wtf plz shut up! it is a puppy give her time and give her treats when she is gone i did that and my rat terrier got trained to heal sit and stand in one day my doberman in a week give her time and toys lock up the toys when she is bad take them out when she is good
Reply:My pit was very mouthy when he was younger. He had this habbit of chewing on my pony tails at night, yaa, painful, lol. Just tell them NO strictly, take whatever it is they're biting at away [hands, toes, shoes, w/e it is you don't want them to eat.] and ignore them for a minute or two. If they're really persistant and don't listen to you when you tell them no, likes ours was, a little swat on the butt works too. Not hard, but so they know that they did bad and they need to stop. Our pit was taken from his littermates really soon [6 weeks.] so he didn't have the time to learn what hurts and what doesnt, how hard he can bite, ect.





Ours out grew it fairly soon after we got him. But it does get really annoying, really fast. Just be stern with them. Don't swat them then say "ohh, im so sorry, aww, coochie coochie coo" and junk. If they did wrong, ignore them and make sure they know they did wrong...





I'm not sure that you're in the same situation since your dog is most likely huge, lol. But when Ivan [our pit] was younger and would eat my hair/fingers/toes, we'd pick him up and put him on the floor, then move his "doggie stairs" away from the bed so he couldn't climb up, and make him lay on the floor when we were on the bed. He eventually got tired of being alone and he'd quit being a pain.





He's 100% over biting and nipping at us now, though. You could stick your hand IN his mouth and he'd look at you like you were nuts... Actaully, a short time after he learned that he got swatted when he bit he starting hamming it up... If you stuck your hand in his mouth, he'd fake a yawn till you took it out. Like, EVERYTIME.








Ohh oh, do NOT spray your dog with water if you ever want it to enjoy/be nice in a bath tub, or if you ever plan on taking it to the beach/water/ect... We had a dalmation that was utterly TERRIFIED of anything that had to do with water because when he was smaller he got sprayed with water for doing something bad.





Welll, good luck, sorry this is so long...
Reply:Keep telling her no and then making her stop. You have got to break this now or you are going to have serious problems later (not just with the biting, but that she won't listen to you in general). As for the cage, my rotty is almost 3 and is just now being allowed to stay out during the day simply because she was just too rambunctious. I doubt yours will be "calm" anytime soon. You are probably going to have to break her slowly to behaving when left out. Start by leaving her out at night, that way you are still around if she starts getting into things, and might be able to catch her (most likely not though). I would suggest getting used to the crate being in your house- you will probably have it for a while!
Reply:She could have been taken away from her mum %26amp; litter mates too early and hasn't learnt any bite inhabition.


It's pretty easy to teach, I had this problem with my dog.





When she bites or mouths you (or anyone else) make a yelping noise and turn away from her and ignore her for a minute and then go back to the game, if she does it again make the yelping noise and put her outside or loc her in another room and ignore her for 5 mins or so.


If you are consistent she should figure out that she is hurting you (hence the yelping noise) and being punished for biting.





it could take a month or two to stop this behaviour, or even longer considering she is already 3 months old (I started working with my dog the day she came home at 6 weeks old), but you should start seeing an improvement after a couple of weeks though.
Reply:Stop telling her no. She doesn't understand the concept because dogs don't have the word "no" in their vocabulary. Start puppy classes asap and every time she "mouths" remove your body part from her reach. Don't react physically or shout no. Yelping may help get the point across but from how she sounds she'll learn faster from being ignored. Bite inhibition is a learned behavior. Her siblings/mother would have yelped and stopped playing or growled at her when she got out of hand. Another idea is to get a toy she CAN bite to play and play with her. When she gets the toy praise her but if she gets your hand/arm yelp and end the play for a few seconds. The pawing is something that I have no experience with. Redirecting the behavior into something positive may help end it.





add: Hitting a dog for mouthing is NOT a good idea. In dog world mouthing is a normal and accepted play behavior up to the point where it gets too rough. Physical punishment=fear=fear aggression/avoidance/unhappy dog. Physical abuse is never the solution, it's just another part of the problem.
Reply:tell her no discpline is the answer and sh is also young still



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