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How To Prevent Doggy Biting
Do you have a pet canine that bites? Then it is time you learned how to stop a puppy from biting. There is great peril in allowing it to continue, just because you feel it is only nipping. Playful nipping will eventually, turn into serious and dangerous biting.
No canine owner should have a pet dog that may injure children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your pup has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not addressing the problem of your dog biting will definitely end up with both, your pet, and you in serious trouble. If your pup is likely 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 bad wounds your puppy could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being paying for the damages. In order to avoid such things happening to your visitors, you and your puppy, 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 few weeks old. All puppies 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 jaws around, because mouthing is the beginning of all biting problems. If your pup was long enough with its offspring 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 yell. The puppy is astonished and frightened at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would screech louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, disregarding the biting puppy. This is how puppies learn 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 harshly. So the puppy learns from its mother and siblings in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.
Since we have extracted the puppy from this original training setting, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the puppy biting. The approach us humans could use to execute this training would be to yelp 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 fabrication 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 pup will soon realize that biting leads to all the enjoyment and affection being halted, and will realize that biting is not permissible behavior pattern.
Another technique to stop pup from nipping is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit hard or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not wound the dog in any way. It just does not allow it from opening its jaws wide enough to bite anything. The doggy will soon figure out why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every dog owner must remember, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most severe dog problems, which any dog owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real serious biting and steps to hinder dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.
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