Restrain Biting Instincts In Pet Dogs

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

No canine owner should have a dog that may harm children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your puppy has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not correcting the problem of your dog biting will undoubtedly end up with both, your dog, and you in serious trouble. If your dog is inclined 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 damage your pup could be put down as a dangerous animal, and you end up being held liable for the damage. In order to avoid such things happening to your visitors, you and your dog, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.

Biting is unacceptable behavior pattern in dogs and is best handled when the dog is just a pup. All doggies love to chew, so the first thing to have is an sufficient supply of chew toys around. This works a long way into hindering a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its mouth around, because mouthing is the commencement of all biting problems. If your doggy was long enough with its mother it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to hold back its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will yelp. The puppy is surprised and frightened 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, ignoring 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 forcefully. So the puppy learns from its mother and playmates in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Since we have detached the puppy from this inherited training atmosphere, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the pup biting. The technique us humans could use to complete this training would be to screech 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 incising continues, start turning away 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 stopped, and will realize that forceful chomping is not correct behavior pattern.

Another approach to stop doggy from nipping is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit hard or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not hurt the dog in any way. It just prevents it from opening its mouth wide enough to bite anything. The pup 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 canine owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real harmful biting and steps to prevent dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.