Nothing works--biting!
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| Replace the bad biting with good biting.... i.e: A toy or a bone.
When he starts nipping give a firm "NO!", then give him something he can chew on. When he chews on the toy give him lots of praise. |
| Patience, perseverance and be consistant.
Your baby will get the message. Distracting with a toy is a great suggestion. Also a tired puppy is a good puppy. Is he getting enough exercise? A nice long walk or play time might help. |
| My pup did the same thing when she was smaller, 8 months now and still wants to, what I got was a LONG play rope for dogs, so your hands are out of the way. She takes hold and wants to play tug of war, This happens to be her favorite thing to do. My son rough house with her when she was small and of course she like this. When we started to stop her of that we gave her a small toy in her mouth and she could not nip at him it was her way to get him to play. Now she runs around with toys ALL the time. But she has stop the nipping for quite awhile. I hope this helps |
| I know it's frustrating, it's definitely a sheepdog thing but also a puppy thing in general. They do need to learn not to nip, it hurts and as they get bigger can be dangerous.
I do find distraction helps, but they also need to learn it just isn't acceptable. You need to make sure your tone of voice conveys your displeasure, a firm no, and ignore the pup until it exhibits the behavior you want. If the puppy licks you instead, lots of praise and I find saying the word kisses at the time they lick is good too. They learn that kisses are good, nipping is not. Bree is really good now, she just turned 15 weeks old and I can't remember the last time she nipped. Sometimes you can tell she almost does and catches herself, then gives kisses and looks at me waiting to hear good girl  |
| Keep the suggestions coming! They give me hope! |
| One of the ideas we got from the forum seemed to work pretty well.
We have a part of our kitchen gated off. This area also contains Milton's crate. When he's acting like an idiot we put him not in his crate, but in the gated area of the kitchen for a time-out. Basically, they associate acting like a dork with going to the "caged in area". |
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