My new pup Murphy nips a little when were playing and has taken a dislike to my favourite oversized jumped which he fights with whether I'm wearing it or not! I know he's only playing but it can be quite painful, his little baby teeth are like needles! I've found getting him one of those rope tuggy toys distracts him from eating my jumper.

Thank you for the links though. They will come in very handy

Leanne x

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I have a 3 nearly 4 month Akita X German shep puppy. We rescued her at 9 weeks and she was also a nipper. I have to admit that I did a Dog whisper type bite on her. Which is to nip her very very lightly with you hand, on her back quarter. It symilates mum nipping. As trying to give her other things to do is ignoring the dominace issue. You need to be very clearly "the pack leader" I also have a 11 month dobe and he's a fantastic dog. The Akita is now no longer nipping. She's alot better behaved.

I really do think what Ceaser has to say makes alot of sense!

You want to be careful playing tuggy with puppies, as again its a dominace game. Also the roots in there teeth are not fully grown until there older!

Hi all

I am so relieved to read this thread! We have a young pup (Mum died) she is 7.5 weeks old now, cross American Bulldog and Mastiff and although she is a clever girl and can be loving the biting is reallllly getting me down.

Tried the yelping, no, dominating her, offering a toy in place of me but if she is in one of those moods it does not matter. I am sure that she is not aggressive and it is all puppy play but sometimes she is relentless. Comes at me time and time again, growling, barking snapping and you all know how much it hurts when they chomp down. She is going to be going to obedience classes and I know that she will get it but it has made me feel disappointment about the new pup I suppose!

Reading all the posts here it sounds like there are alot of us in the same position with lots of little puncture wounds and scratches!!

Fingers crossed that this phase passes quickly! I am more worried about damage she might do to my girls (13 and 6)!

Amber

I love Ian Dunbar. Do you have any more refs to his stuff please?

I'm going through this with Penny right now, she doesn't nip, just thinks everything that moves is a chew toy, usually everything that moves on me, or even Fizz's legs will do much to Fizz's annoyence.
The Dogs have an old wicker dog bed full of toys, balls, chews, a wooden roling pin is the fave...oh and a teething blanket from tesco baby dept with a bears head in the middle and knoted ends, they're spoilt rotton lol....but when she stars the whole knarling thing I get her basket and empty the entire contents on the floor and stick her in the middle, works well...she spends ages chewing, bringing me things and generally tiring herself out xx

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It was good to read this as i'm a little at my wits end with our 12 week cocker boy - who can be so easy when out and about, but very bitey (hard) especially towards my hands and arms and my daughters feet. We have tried mimicking a dogs cry, saying no and squirting with water - also distracting him with toys. but he doesn't seem to get that this is not on.

He has a lot of energy and tends to bite at these times. We have lots of toys and things for him to safely bite/chew - any advice please would be most welcome! p.s. It's almost as if he's trying to dominate and it's worrying me because of my 4 year old daughter.

I think cockers can be a beggar for this. Mine is over a year now but i remember thinking the nipping would never end and worrying about it (i have a 3 and 6 year old)

I used the timeout on him too as everything else just made him more excitable and bitey so the timeout just gave everyone a chance to calm down a bit .

A Consistent and persistent approach is the only think that works in the end but it is generally just a phase.

Get your little one involved in training ASAP, even if it's just little things like making pup sit with a treat and ensure that high value treats (like bones or hide chews, pigs ears etc, are never given while your child has access to the pup )

A great book to buy is The Perfect Puppy by Gwen Bailey

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I think this sticky needs a bit of tidying up. It might be me but the early links dont work anymore, so if you refer a new forum member to this they might get a bit frustrated trawling through and not finding any working links. I just revisited it and had problems.

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might be worth PMing one of them about it as they might miss this post

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