| How to Prevent Puppies from Biting |
| Written by Joe R. Hilliard | ||||||||
| Sunday, 31 May 2009 | ||||||||
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Having a puppy is a fun experience, but that experience will sour if you dont give it proper training. For example, it may never grow out of its puppy habit of biting. People ask me from time to time how to get their puppy to stop biting, and I always tell them that this is a puppys natural behavior; young puppies like to bite and chew.
Having a puppy is a fun experience, but that experience will sour if you dont give it proper training. For example, it may never grow out of its puppy habit of biting. People ask me from time to time how to get their puppy to stop biting, and I always tell them that this is a puppys natural behavior; young puppies like to bite and chew. However, if your puppys biting tendencies get overboard, you should now probably think about how to get it to stop biting. A good method to stop a puppy from biting is a simple obedience training, and it involves water. For this to work, you should be around the puppy enough to identify when it does its bad behavior, so you are always there to punish it as necessary. If youre often at home and can spot its actions quickly, this proves to be very effective; otherwise, it doesnt work, and you may want to look at other solutions. Basically what you do is just get a water sprayer and spray the dog lightly with water the moment it does something wrong. Of course, for this to work you have to be around your puppy enough so that you can quickly catch and punish it whenever its doing something wrong. If you cant be around enough to catch your puppy when it is biting, your punishment will be inconsistent, and it wont work. Consistent water sprays are effective in training your dog to stop biting, but inconsistencies wont help your puppy understand its punishment. Yelping is also a great technique to make your puppy stop biting. The yelp approach is effective for puppies that bite you or other people, not random objects. When your puppy is biting you, just yelp, instead of being angry or saying a firm NO at your puppy. This makes use of the pack mentality, and it makes the puppy think that by yelping, they bit you too hard and will stop biting. This is very effective in getting puppies to stop biting, and it also doesnt confuse, pressure or intimidate your pet. Yet another technique is to use orange peels to keep your puppy from biting. Dogs dont really like orange peels, so you can put orange peels on whatever items your puppy likes to bite, and those will make your puppy keep away from that item. If you dont have orange peels then white pepper can do the job too. After your puppy has been experiencing orange peels for some time, it will learn to keep away from these items. Overall, however, just remember that biting in most puppies is just a passing stage of doghood; most puppies grow out of this stage, and it helps if you add in a little training to make sure it doesnt continue when your puppy gets older. About the Author: Did you find these pointers beneficial? Get your free Puppy Training Secrets pointers from How To Train A Puppy and be taught a lot more about How To Crate Train A Puppy the fast way. Views: 266
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