Day 1 of a new attempt to stop the biting
Anyway, i read through here and I'll say what didn't work first: -Yelping and acting hurt -Slamming a rolled newspaper into table and yelling no -Coins What has somewhat worked: -Turning him on his back showing i'm alpha and not having fun New tactic: -Standing up and turning my back on him and looking at the sky and saying NO BITE. The last one seems to be pretty effective...he generally nips one more time on my leg and then stops and sits down until i turn around and say good boy. Anyone else see this work well? |
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| How old is Eggbert now? |
| Eggbert is 26 (me) Kenny is 13 weeks |
Eggbert wrote: Eggbert is 26 (me) Kenny is 13 weeks  Sounds like you're on the right track with the stopping/staring/no bite approach. Responding already? That's great! Sending you my rescue dog next to see if you can cure her of jumping on people. Let me know when you'll be available...?  Kristine |
| Yeah I think keep doing what you're doing, but from my experience, Kenny is at peak-nipping-age. It's a phase, it should subside after 16 weeks... |
| We used the "shove the stuffie" in her mouth method.... or the "Shove the tennis ball" in her mouth method. That worked for us.... We didn't like the turn around method bec/ she would just jump and get us when we weren't looking.... kicking our back-sides and so we opted for the stuff something in the mouth kind of approach.... It is a phase and he will outgrow it hopefully after he loses those sharp vampire teeth between 4-5 months.... |
Mad Dog wrote: Sending you my rescue dog next to see if you can cure her of jumping on people. Let me know when you'll be available...? Kristine Kristine--this is the only problem I still have with Millie. She is so excited to greet new people. It always starts out with an out of control bum wiggle (well, whole body really ) Then, if they don't bend down to give her kisses.....she jumps up and steals some!   Eggbert---Sounds like you're on the right track with Kenny  We used a baby gate to block Millie in our kitchen. When she nipped at us we said "no bite", then everyone went over the gate and left her all alone. She didn't like it and before long the nipping stopped. I'm sure as he matures this behavior will decrease and eventually stop too. |
| Haha thanks for all the advice. I know he's during the nipping stage so not too worried but want to establish good behavior early. Should have added timeout to the things that DONT work. He just lays down and sleeps. |
Eggbert wrote: Should have added timeout to the things that DONT work. He just lays down and sleeps. The trick is to keep timeouts short. If he's falling asleep, then the timeout is too long. Timeouts only last for about thirty seconds. If after the thirty seconds they are barking or other unwanted behavior....then wait until it stops plus five seconds of good behavior. Go back in and tell him how good he is. If he resumes nipping, then start the process over. This is similar to how dogs treat each other. Other dogs will not play with a puppy who is not playing by the rules. Good Luck. |
NJ_Sheepie wrote: We used the "shove the stuffie" in her mouth method.... or the "Shove the tennis ball" in her mouth method. That worked for us.... We used the "stuff" method AND the turn our back method. Both worked really well. Bingley was NOT ALLOWED to play at all unless he had a toy in his mouth. He learned quite quickly, and it sure saved us!!! And by quite quickly, I mean in under a half hour he knew what "go get your toy" meant.  |
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