| Pros, PLEASE HELP.. 6 mth. old male bites me!!
Please advise on how to get my 6 mth. old to stop biting me. He`ll be just fine one minute, chewing on his cow hoof or pig ear. All of the sudden he jumps up, out of control!! He jumps in my face, biting at whatever part of me he can reach!! Very frightening!! He`s in weekly classes (even did one month of boarding school), is crated when unsupervised, walked at least twice a day, gets a lot of "free" time to run in the backyard (I`m always in the yard, too). My trainer`s solution is to muzzle him, then try to get him to bite by pinching his side or back and hit the muzzle when he tries to bite. This is not working for me. He hates the muzzle and works it off. I hate the muzzle, too! There must be another way. Trainer says I must stay "on top of the dog", but how? I know he`s just a teething baby, and it will be a couple years, or more, till he is mature. But he`s already bigger than me!! He`s friendly and very loveable one second and ALL MOUTH the next. We use the prong collar whenever he`s not crated (trainer`s rule #1).I`m a first time rottie owner, but the Am Staf I had for twelve years never did ths! Please HELP!!!!
------------------
 |