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This video is on how to stop your puppy biting you.

Dogs use their mouths to interact with their environment, so it is normal for a puppy to want to bite your hands or clothes. However in our society it is highly inappropriate. To train a puppy to stop using their mouth when interacting with humans is simple. All you have to do is set up training scenarios where your puppy would normally start biting and train an alternate response- calmly sitting, lying down, standing, or walking with a closed mouth. First you would start with the least arousing game- so simply just a reaching hand. As you reach, click or say “yes” and then feed a treat. As the puppy is successful you can progress to more and more arousing stimulus.

You should not allow your dog to be man handled or petted roughly. Petting should not only be rewarding for the human but for the dog as well. However at some point in your dogs life, someone might get to your dog before you can stop them and be overly rough. You can prepare your dog for these situations by playing training games. But when these situations do occur in real life, respect your dog, and get them out of the stressful situation. Do practice handling exercises for grooming as well as vet visits regularly…

Tips-

These exercises should only be done by ADULTS. As children can actually TEACH dogs to find mouthing and biting fun.

If you want to work with your child as the distraction, have your puppy with you on leash while you control all interactions. Making sure to end the game if the puppy is getting too aroused.

Children under the age of 5 should never be left alone with a dog or encouraged to interact with or pet dogs as they cannot control how rough they are and can make your dog learn to not like children as well as it being unsafe for the child.

Put your puppy on leash and tether him to a door so that you can escape him if you make a mistake by progressing too quickly and elicit mouthing.

If your puppy starts mouthing you during the training games it means you have gone too far too quickly- go back a step and make the game easier.

Make sure your puppy can always back away from you, so they don’t feel trapped or forced when being handled. This is because they could start learning to bite out of fear or stress.

If you have an adult dog or adolescent dog that is mouthy watch my Handling Shyness video.

If you must rough house with your dog- have a structured game where you hold a toy in each hand that the dog can bite. Never allow your dog to bite your hands when playing. If you feel teeth the game ends. Always have a cue to start and end the game, and never reinforce the dog for starting the game on his own.

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 Almost everybody that has ever had a dog has forfited up some socks, slippers or the corner of their favorite chair to the chewing routine of their friendly canine. Instead of asking “what can I do to keep my dog from chewing things up” you need to ask “what can I do to redirect my dog from chewing things up”.

Stopping your dogs chewing is not going to be eliminated totally . Dogs just have to chew.

Provide your pup with plenty of items to choose from since you know he needs something to chew on.

Start gathering up multiple types of chew toys that you can provide him with. Put a fair amount of these toys in each of the rooms that your pet likes to hang out in. This should hurry the process along and keep your dog from chewing on the things that cost a lot of money.

How To Stop A Dog From Chewing

Look the toys over every once in awhile and toss the ones that are wearing out. Try all kinds of toys until your dog finds the ones that he really loves the most.

Screaming and hollering when your dog is chewing on something he shouldn’t be is very unlikely going to cure the problem. Instead of punishing your pet, let’s go ahead and reinforce the positive.

Right as your dog starts to tear up the newspaper, give a crisp “NOOO” and flip him his favorite toy. Give your dog a pet and praise whenever they choose a toy over something else.

Stop Dog Chewing

Another option to help halt chewing is by making it unpleasant to chew.

One option is the scat mat. Place the mats where you do not want your dog to go. The little plastic spikes of the scat mat are harmless they just poke your dog if he stands on it.

You can also try applying “bitters” or something like that on the items that he has been known to ches on. You should be able to find these things at the nearest pet store. These may not be your best options, but they are options.

You are not going to halt your dog from chewing but you can direct him towards chewing the proper things.

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