Curb Biting Instincts In Family Pet Dogs

Do you have a pet canine that bites? Then it is time you took steps to stop a puppy from biting. There is great danger in allowing it to continue, just because you feel it is only nipping. Playful nipping will eventually, turn into serious and dangerous biting.

No dog owner should have a dog that may harm children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your dog has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not correcting the problem of your dog biting will definitely end up with both, your pet, and you in serious trouble. If your puppy is prone to biting and manages to get out alone, it can bite a child or even an adult passing on the street, and if the bite causes serious damage your dog could be put down as a dangerous animal, and you end up being taken to court. In order to prevent such things happening to your friends, you and your dog, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.

Biting is problematic behavior pattern in dogs and is best addressed when the dog is just a pup. All puppies love to chew, so the first thing to have is an ample supply of chew toys around. This works a long way into stopping a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its jaws around, because mouthing is the beginning of all biting problems. If your dog was long enough with its mother it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to restrain its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will yelp. The puppy is surprised and alarmed at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would yelp louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, shunning the biting puppy. This is how puppies get the message that they cannot use that force with their jaws and teeth, and if the puppy bites the mother the third time his mother will turn on him aggressively. So the puppy gets instructions from its mother and playmates in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Since we have removed the puppy from this natural training environment, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the dog biting. The approach us humans could use to carry out this training would be to yelp in a high-pitched voice every time the doggy tries to mouth or bite any part of our body or even clothing. A little bit of exaggeration would help to get the point across. If the biting continues, start ignoring the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The dog will soon realize that biting leads to all the fun and affection being cancelled, and will realize that biting is not correct behavior pattern.

Another technique to stop dog from biting is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit harsh or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not hurt the pup in any way. It just prevents it from opening its jaws wide enough to bite anything. The dog will soon figure out why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every puppy owner must remember, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most serious dog problems, which any dog owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real serious biting and steps to prevent dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.

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