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Prevent Doggy From Biting
Do you have a dog that bites? Then it is time you took measures 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 finally, turn into serious and dangerous biting.
No dog owner should have a pet dog that may injure children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your pup has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not correcting the problem of your dog biting will surely end up with both, your puppy, and you in serious trouble. If your puppy 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 damage your pup could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being sued for damages. In order to prevent such things happening to your family members, you and your puppy, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.
Biting is a negative behavior pattern in dogs and is best handled when the dog is a few weeks old. All puppies love to chew, so the first thing to have is an adequate supply of chew toys around. This works a long way into preventing a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its fangs around, because mouthing is the start of all biting problems. If your doggy was long enough with its cubs it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to repress its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will yelp. The puppy is confounded and alarmed at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would howl louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, disregarding the biting puppy. This is how puppies learn 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 aggressively. 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 extracted the puppy from this born training environs, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the pup biting. The approach us humans could make use of 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 stretching the truth would help to get the point across. If the mouthing continues, start ignoring the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The dog will soon work out that biting leads to all the play and affection being halted, and will realize that forceful snapping is not correct behavior pattern.
Another approach to stop dog from nipping is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit cruel or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not injure the dog in any way. It just prevents it from opening its jaws wide enough to bite anything. The puppy will soon discover why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pup owner must remember, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most severe dog problems, which any canine owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real serious biting and steps to hinder dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.
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