| Re: Puppy Biting and Growling
I had the same thing with my boy, he was exhibiting a lot of dominance and did a lot of biting. If you yelped or screeched to indicate it hurt or for human unacceptable the more he would chew. The suggestions you have gotten are very good. In fact the same I recieved. Please read the dominance article Sticky posted, when we followed through and changed many of these things we noticed a difference in days. He was still bittie and doing these things a few times a day around four and a half months so we started using Grainners bitter apple spray every time he got excited and nippy. It took less than four days for him to almost completely stop, after about four days we were down to just showing him the bottle and he would take a step back and stop.
Our boy is seven months now and still gets excited and wants to chew on you but it is nothing more than a passing teeth rub using the flat front of his teeth in most cases to show excitement. He does it one time and if you say no biting he starts licking your hand to say sorry. He is a very loving boy and would not do anything to harm anyone. He is a giant 95# licking machine who is great with kids and loves everyone. There is hope so be patient and loving he will come out of it just follow these suggestions, train, and be consistent.  |