hi, we have had our labrador puppy for just over a week now and are having the same problems, we have a 2yr old daughter aswell and 2 be honest it is wearing us down a little, let me now if u get any god tips, i have been trailing through internet sites and dont know what is the best route 2 take 2 stop the biting!!!

I find the best thing is to be as boring as possible when she is like that. I also do the "walk in the room, ignore her for a few minutes, then say hello once she's settled" thing. This seems to work. She doesn't nip me as much as she still does my OH who doesn't get this yet.

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Mum to Ginny - 9 months old Jack Russell

Great advice here, we have a 10 week old sprocker and we had a trainer recommend to use to hold some food between your curled fingers (ie, nothing pointing out to bite!) and only release it if it licks or is gentle. If he bites then do the 'ow' thing and don't let him have the treat. Hopefully it will work!

We have had Maisy, our beagle puppy a week now, and like everyone we too our being eaten alive . We are trying the yelp and ignore but only seems to work sometimes. Replacing with a toy doesn't work at all she ignores the toy and goes for the hand! Will try excluding her as mentioned above and see how we get on! Any other tips happily received!

Rohan is 13 weeks tomorrow and a lab.

His biting/mouthing has gotten much better and is soley directed at myself and my husband. Everyone else just receives licks!
However when he is excited, or in 'the zone ' as we call it, No amount of walking away, saying no, or toy replacement works. he just wants to bite our hands!
We tried putting him out/behind baby gates etc but he just starts chewing whatever he can find in the area we have put him in.

He had his first puppy training class last week and a couple of the other puppies tried to bite the instructer. She gave them a short/sharp yank on their collar.
We tried this at home by putting Rohan's collar on when the behaviour started and it seems to do the trick, the collar alone seems to switch his mind onto something else. If he bites we give a quick pull on the collar and get him to sit. It's not 100% effective but it is definitely the best method we have found. His collar is just a standard buckle one. (definitely not a choke chain or the such), the movement just distracts him rather than hurting him in anyway.
Sorry for the length of the post but I know how frustrating it is when nothing seems to work and boy are those little teeth sharp!

Hello-Through this forum I had the strength and patience to go through terrible biting by our collie tess-she is now nearly 6 months and although she will still 'mouth/nip' when excited she KNOWS she should not do it. At all times remain clam, turn your back and be still.
There is some wonderful advice given here-you must decide which you will adopt and stick to it.
We just have a whole shed load of other problems now like deficiency!!but the biting has stopped.

When we excluded she weed or pooed so try and get her outside first and use this teqnique when you know it will be safe.

Ours was a ferocius nibbler / snapper and i could see no end except a dog biting!!

She is now 4 1/2 months and beginning to 'get it' when she is let out of her cage in the morning she is now picking up a toy herself, so we can say hello safely. She is starting to lick when a hand is near rather than nip, thank goodness.

There is light at the end of the tunnel you no need consistancy but hang in there

Any more advice would be highly welcomed as this morning we had an "incident" shall we say. She was playing with the OH and i came out of the shower, she proceeded to chase my feet which is quite normal but today she took a huge nip at my ankle and really cut into the skin! Feel like nothing is working please help confused:

Don't despair-I have had blood running down both my legs. Tess would actually take a flying leap at me. She can now focus this enery to a football thank goodness. They are confused. Their teeth hurt. I went to our local butcher and got two huge thigh bones. I gave them raw. It looked like she'd been in a massacre by the time she'd finished but it really calmed her down. Also when they were picked clean I pushed peanut butter in them she still spends hours licking them.

I've also noticed that Rohan is pretty 'time specific' with his biting.

Usually before his breakfast in the mornings and late at night before bed.

If he starts at night I take him for a quick walk around the block just to burn off some energy. In the mornings he calms down after breakfast. He isn't making a correlation between the biting and the two events as I am making sure I walk away from him for a bit first.
It might be worth just making a note of the worst times to give yourself a clearer picture of triggers.

It definitely helped me to take a step back and be a little more analytical about it as it took away the feeling of 'my puppy hates me', and the frustration of all of the biting.