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Originally Posted by marley08  OK -- it's not nipping, it's not playing -- when I take something out of my 4 month old puppy's mouth, right now it's mostly grass that he rips out of my yard, he snarls, growls and BITES, hard and won't let go unless I scream or yank his mouth open (which I only do if I have gloves on). This can't be normal. He will also get "mad" and snarl and growl and make strange sounds all the while trying to bite me.
I am very worried. If he does this now, what am I going to do when he's bigger. How do I stop it? |
It appears your approach to puppy training is to fight.....so your puppy fights back. That's normal. He's doing exactly what you're teaching him to do.
Why are you screaming? And do you realize you could seriously injure your puppy by "yanking his mouth open"? Why should he do anything other than fight when this is the way he is being treated?
Read this thread and see if you can find some self-control and patience to use the tips given. The goal isn't to conquer the puppy, it's to appeal to a puppy's sense of cooperation in order to teach him what you expect of him.
http://www.rottweiler.net/forums/pup...ies-mouth.html
Click on the "Search" link in the blue title bar and type in Puppy Biting for many, many threads on this subject.