Puppy Biting
Furry bundles of fun, puppy biting is often part of their playing rough and tumble. In exploring the world, biting and tasting all that is around them is normal. How to stop puppies biting is another question. Young puppies will bite, especially when tumbling around with their litter mates and when cutting teeth. It's down to the owner to educate their puppy or dog, you have to let them know what's okay to chew, and what isn't.
With puppy biting, wild dogs learn to restrain their biting habit even before they're four months old. Quickly being taught the rules by the mother, litter mates and all the pack members. Because we remove young pups from their natural upbringing, before they have been taught, owners have to ensure they replace that training.
Most dogs and puppies will be the loving and affectionate companion you were looking for. They follow after you where ever you go sometimes getting under your feet. WHen it comes to stopping puppies biting your trousers or long skirt, or your hands while you pet them. This behaviour is normal to your puppy, although annoying and at times dangerous to you.
They are simply treating you as they would their fellow litter mates, or pack member. It is important to allow a young puppy to socialise, with other pups and mature, well behaved dogs. This way, they can pick up necessary social skills, puppies need to jump about, run, and play fight with each other, to learn.
This is how they become educated in the 'rules' and will learn to control the habit. You must allow them to learn from their own experience, if they are too aggressive or physical, other dogs and will respond to this. This is something which should be allowed to occur naturally, it is the only way it can be learned.
We too as owners can help do this, by stopping the unacceptable biting behaviour, as soon as it starts; a gentle but firm no is all that's needed. Not the need to be over aggressive, but this must be done over and over again.
Never allow your puppy to bite, at any time, they will learn what is acceptable behaviour and, of course, it's not. Buying them something, other than you, to bite, is also a good idea, in fact, it a great idea. Having a plastic bone put into their mouths, every time they try to bite you, will show them you're not the toy. Some times, you will feel as if you are getting absolutely nowhere, and others times, that you've climbed Mount Everest, where biting is concerned, repetition works.
