my lovely Muffy is biting
 My oes is 10 weeks old and bites hard squealing doesnt help at all, it usually goes with jumping up or lunging if we are sitting down. We are saying off at the monent and standing still ..... if possible....... on the odd occasion I have put her in her crate to settle........ it is all usually just before she drops to sleep like a crazy 10 minutes. Any more advice would be appreciated. We are trying to do all training positively with a clicker. thx Jan |
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| hmmmm is yelping positive?
try giving her something to play with instead of biting you. at 10 weeks they are a little nippy if I remember. it may not be positive, but i removed them if they nipped. they nipped and didn't stop when told to they went into the crate or pen for a time out. I am not big on the clicker - it does tend to reinforce bad behavior unless your timing is very very good. |
| Thx for reply...... all advice was squel like a puppy to interupt the behavior it just excited muffy more. I dont see this as negative although it doesnt work for me.
Of course I am a novice oes owner but at 10 weeks with clicker training Muffy can sit ,shake a paw, high five, lie down, wait for food and respond to a leave it command on most occasions. So for me I think its been successful although a full time occupation. Now for the jumping and biting we say off and mostly she sits for a treat but sometimes she bites hard. Is turning and stepping forward working for anyone I find it can be a bit painful so have added the off and reward. jan xxxxxxxxxx |
| I went through the same thing with my puppy. She is 8 1/2 months old now and will still nip a little but my trainer suggested holding a bully stick or tendon. We chose the tendon. She would start to bite and I would get the tendon and she would sit on the floor and chew it while I held on to it. The trick was not letting her get control of the tendon. After about 10 minutes I would put it away and she would relax. |
| We had the same problem with our OES puppy. She's now 14 weeks and much better but the time from when we got her - at almost 8 weeks old - to 11 weeks old were pretty bad.
I, too, found the loud OW didn't help. It excited her more. Stuffing toys in her mouth didn't work. My legs and feet had little nip marks all over them! We figured out that her nips, etc. were part of her dominance behavior (and we do still have that!). So, here's what our trainer recommended: Social isolation, she says, is the most attention getting and what puppies don't want. We cleared a half bath of anything she would get into (toilet paper, rug, etc) and when she behaves badly, we simply pick her up, don't say a word to her, and put her in the bathroom alone for 10 to 15 seconds. Then open the door and let her out. After a few times, she "got it" that bad behavior would send her to "time out." Our trainer didn't recommend using the crate as a time out spot because they might develop "crate hate" and then you could have trouble getting them to go there for sleep, etc. The bully stick that someone else here recommended is good, too. We find she will spend a lot of time chewing on it instead of us! Of course, as I write this, Winnie the pooch is being a devil. After a weekend during which she was so SWEET. Sigh. |
| They're mouthy little jerks. Our 16 week old still gets mouth happy when he's excited but it's slowly but surely improving. I can touch him now without getting nipped every time! |
| Jenny is a little nippy too. We have tried the yelp, putting something suitable to chew in her mouth. She can be real good and then walk by and take a little puppy nip and keep right on going. For the most part she is a very sweet dog, but I don't remember my other two sheepies being like that. Although, overall Jenny is much better than they were at this age. I am starting to realize now sometimes the nip is "get me outside now, unless you want a puddle on the floor".
The one thing that will calm her down real quick is her kong bone filled with peanut butter. I always hold it, mostly because I don't want the peanut butter on the floor, but also so she knows that "I can giveth and I can taketh away"  (LOL) |
| awwwwwwww thanks so much for all the comments and helpfull suggestions ...... sometimes its just a bit of support to the human thats needed....and you all gave me that thx.
The idea of the bathroom is great I was worrying that her view of the crate would be tainted also holding the treat is a good idea. A big hug and thx to all who wtote. Jan xxxxxxxxxxx |
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