Teaching a Puppy to Stop Biting
Bringing home a puppy is something that you will think of as an adventure but what you really need to realize is that it takes a lot of responsibility to take care of a puppy and to provide it with proper training. When you think you should be enjoying your puppy on day one, youre wrong " training should already start the moment you take him home. Playing with your puppy, just remember that everything that you do with your puppy will instill behavior that will go on until your puppy becomes an adult.
Puppy training should be consistent all throughout his life so that certain behaviors that are allowed with the owner will also be allowed with other people who enter the home. If at some point a behavior can become an annoyance, an embarrassment or can cause harm to the owners guests, then the owner should not allow this same behavior with him or else the dog will be baffled as to what is a proper behavior is and what is not when around people.
Biting
A usual issue that has to be prevented through training is biting. Puppies like to bite because they are still trying to explore their world and sadly, people at times get the burden of this attention.
Never ever hit or slap a puppy while training it to stop biting as they might take it as though you are playing with it. Leave the roughhousing to dogs.
Another way to train a pup to stop biting is by not playing any aggressive games such as chasing, wrestling or tug of war. Even though some of these games can be fun for you and your dog, it will encourage an aggressive behavior which should not be acceptable especially when you have guests coming to your house.
One of the greatest ways of training a puppy not to bite is by letting out a sharp Ouch whenever the puppy tries to nibble or bite and then removing eye contact and turning away from the pup. This is the same technique that dogs use with each other " letting the other dog know and be aware that what it did hurt and will not continue to play that way.
This will make the puppy understand that he will be given a negative reinforcement whenever it bites and will not be given attention like he thinks it would. On the other hand, if your puppy calms down and does not try to bite, give him a treat of reward him with attention and praise so that the right behavior is reinforced.
If a puppy bites on your hand, place a finger under its tongue and hold on to the bottom of the jaw firmly for about ten seconds and make sure that the puppy cannot get away. This will prevent the puppy from biting down and will provide the negative reinforcement that such behavior is not acceptable at all.
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