Repress Biting Instincts In Family Pet Dogs

Do you have a dog 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 in the end, turn into serious and dangerous biting.

No pet owner should have a pet dog that may bite children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your dog has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not correcting the problem of your dog biting will certainly end up with both, your pet, and you in serious trouble. If your doggy is prone to biting 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 harm your dog could be put down as a hazardous animal, and you end up being paying for the damages. In order to keep such things happening to other people, you and your dog, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.

Biting is not acceptable behavior pattern in dogs and is best addressed when the dog is just a pup. All puppies love to chew, so the first thing to have is an ample supply of chew toys around. This works a long way into discouraging a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its jaws around, because mouthing is the commencement of all biting problems. If your dog 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 cry. The puppy is astonished and worried at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would yelp louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, shunning the biting puppy. This is how puppies get the message 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 begins to learn from its mother and playmates in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Since we have removed the puppy from this natural training atmosphere, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the puppy biting. The method us humans could employ to implement this training would be to screech in a high-pitched voice every time the dog tries to snap or bite any part of our body or even clothing. A little bit of embellishment would help to get the point across. If the incising continues, start ignoring the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The doggy will soon get to know that biting leads to all the amusement and affection being halted, and will realize that forceful chomping is not an acceptable behavior pattern.

Another way to stop dog from biting is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit cruel or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not injure the doggy in any way. It just prevents it from opening its chops wide enough to bite anything. The pup will soon understand why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pup owner must remember, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most critical dog problems, which any animal owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real injurious biting and steps to inhibit dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.