How to make my puppy stop biting?

Puppies play with YOU, just like you were another puppy. Herding pups (Collies, shelties, German Shepherds, Aussies, Heelers) are the worst for ‘mouthing’, especially going for your heels…but all breeds of pups do it to some extent. At five months, he’s lost all his baby teeth, so now he needs to learn to play “nice”.

My dog MoJo is a German Shepherd…and was the worst biter/mouther of any GSD’s I’ve ever had…he’d get so excited if I pushed him away, he’d come back like an attack dog…this was at only 9 weeks old. The best ‘discipline’ he ever learned, was if he played rough, I wouldn’t play at all…I’d get up, and go to the bathroom and close the door…he hated that, and in 3 days or so, had ‘learned’ that rough play equaled NO play. You can also ‘yelp OUCH’ just like another puppy, so he knows he’s hurting you…that stops some from getting over excited. Also, distracting him with a toy, saying…’no bite…’…hand him the toy…saying ‘here’…or ‘trade’…any one word will work…

Until you get his mouthing under control, don’t let meet the bus…or at least work with the kids too, so they know how to make him stop (do this inside, so they can get up and leave the room till he settles down)

Not every trick of the trade fits every dog…so it’s nice to have an arsenal of alternatives for training…Why not think about taking him to an Obedience Class.

phrannie