Curb Biting Instincts In Family Pet Dogs
Do you have a pup that bites? Then it is time you learned how 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 in the end, turn into serious and dangerous biting.
No pet owner should have a pup that may injure children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your doggy has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not addressing the problem of your dog biting will undoubtedly end up with both, your pet, and you in serious trouble. If your puppy is apt to bite 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 harm your puppy could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being paying for the damages. In order to keep such things happening to other people, you and your doggy, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.
Biting is a negative behavior pattern in dogs and is best addressed when the dog is a month or two old. All dogs love to chew, so the first thing to have is an adequate supply of chew toys around. This succeeds a long way into discouraging a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its mouth around, because mouthing is the inception of all biting problems. If your doggy was long enough with its offspring it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to inhibit its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will yelp. The puppy is astonished and worried at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would cry louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, shunning the biting puppy. This is how puppies are made to understand that they cannot use that thrust with their jaws and teeth, and if the puppy bites the mother the third time his mother will turn on him harshly. So the puppy gets instructions from its mother and siblings in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.
Since we have removed the puppy from this inherited training environs, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the puppy biting. The way us humans could utilize to carry out this training would be to howl in a high-pitched voice every time the puppy 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 mouthing continues, start taking no notice the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The doggy will soon work out that biting leads to all the amusement and affection being cancelled, and will realize that forceful chomping is not allowable behavior pattern.
Another way to stop doggy from incising is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit hard or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not wound the pup in any way. It just stops it from opening its mouth wide enough to bite anything. The puppy will soon understand why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pet owner must remember, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most dangerous dog problems, which any mutt 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.