OES Puupy Nipping only my Kids
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| Welcome from St. Louis!!!!
I have no sage advice for you except to say what you probably already know....A puppy will run and nip and and an OES more so ---- If your child is running the pup's instinct is kicking in and he will try to herd... 
I am sure someone here will have suggestions.....good luck and keep us posted!!!!! OH...and try to post pictures of him..we all love puppy pictures!!!! |
| Val is right on. running excited children and OES equals nipping - its how they herd. it also has to be trained to be used properly and rightly a five year old is not a sheep.
You need to get your pup and your selves in training class ponto and don't leave the pup and five year old alone together - they can each harm the other in the blink of an eye! Welcome to the forum. |
| Welcome!
I worked with an eight year old to get through something similar (taught him how to teach the puppy to do incompatible behaviors on command with the help of a clicker, fun for both if them, and to play games that weren't compatible with nipping - which means puppy already had something other than boy in his mouth  ) It still took a couple of months of the two of them working together to completely get the pup to cease and desist. It's natural puppy behaviour and maybe they view kids as natural playmates, I don't know. Certainly they don't afford them the same basically natural respect they do adult humans.
At five years old, your son's probably still a little too young to assist much in his own defense, so to speak. You may just need to separate the two of them till they both grow up a bit and learn some more manners. A high pitched "ouch!" - which may work for us tall and maybe a little intimidating people - may just stimulate play/prey drive more coming from a youngster. Standing like a tree is certainly better than running and inevitably being a prime nipping target. But he's still a fine target standing still. You can load him up with fun toys to shove in the puppy shark's mouth as he comes a-nipping, but really it's going to take time and close supervision to break the habit. The boy is just too young to be taken seriously by the pup as anything other than maybe a toy. Kristine |
| Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your puppy!
As already said by others, the puppy will be trying to establish the pecking order and they see small children as beneath them so by nipping he will be establishing himself (in his eyes) higher in the order. Good luck! |
| My son who is just barely turned three has been instructed to Scream NOO, push the pup off and turn away from the dog. Standing there and my child doing nothing but scream has only proven to make the pup continue. However, works better when adults do it. So teaching him to push the dog away has made the pup look for something else. This combined with mom and dad right there to let the pup know "don't you even think about it" and to deter his attn elsewhere has really worked. Our pup is only 13wks old, and we've been impressed that consistent action to EVERY single nip to something other than a toy or his fursis results in our immediate reaction.
I hope you find a resolution soon b/c I know I wouldn't be able to handle my kid being hurt over and over ...and feeling like I couldn't do anything about it. Good luck! |
| Years ago when my sis had a new pup...my nephew would lay on the floor watching T.V. and the pup would run over and nip my nephew on the face and run away. Sis asked the Vet what to do. "The Vet"(not me) said the next time it happened my sis or nephew, if able, should grab the dog by the scruff of the neck, growl and act like she's biting the dog back.
She did it once and it worked. |
| Thank you so much everyone for all the advise. I will try all your suggestions and let everyone know what worked best. If anyone has anymore insight please post it here. thanks again. Pictures coming soon. |
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