How to Stop Puppy's Chewing And Biting

How to Stop Puppy's Chewing And Biting

How to Stop Puppy's Chewing And Biting

How To Prevent Chewing?

Puppies need to chew, especially between4 and 6 months of agewhen their milk teeth are being replaced by adult dentition.

During this time the only sensible course of action is to ensure that the areas a puppy is left in when unsupervised, deny it the opportunity to chew inappropriate items. This ensures safety in the case of electrical writing and unnecessary damage to carpets, furnishing etc. A puppy that gets into the habit of chewing is sometimes difficult to stop, long after the need to chew has passed .

Providing a chew free are can be difficult in the average household, but various companies produce indoor kennels made of metal and for a smaller dogs and younger puppies types of play pen are available. These pieces of equipment are not cheap to buy but are less expensive than new kitchen units, carpets etc.

Once the are has been arranged your puppy can be left with appropriate chew items (readily available in pet shops) but not old shoes, clothes, bits, of wood etc as they are similar to the domestic items dogs are expected to leave untouched. once the puppy's teething stage is over access to a greater area of the house can normally be allowed. The kennel/pen can be folded away and stored for use with your next puppy, kept as a bed or resold .

Should he something you did not observe you are at fault for giving him the opportunity. Learn from experience and do not repeat mistakes.

but how to prevent inappropriate toileting?

well, Advice on house training is freely available from many sources. Most of the advice on chewing above applies to toilet training. Additionally you must provide frequent opportunities for your puppy to relieve itself in the appropriate place i.e. garden and be there to give plenty of prais when he does.

How to prevent play bitting?

In pack society once puppies become active they plan physical games with each other and pester the adults by pulling ears, tails etc. In the early days puppies have kicense to do what they like but as they grow up, adults and litter mates alike become increasingly intolerant especially of their very sharp teeth. By 18 weeks of age puppies learn that to mouth or play bite superiors is taboo and a reprimand will quickly follow any transgressions of the rules when a puppy is introduced into the family this learning process is normally incomplete. The family must take over where the puppy's mother left off.

So How Is This Done?

Whenever the puppy uses its teeth in play the person concerned should respond with a sharp 'NO' and sound as if they have been really hurt. Then walk off and ignore the puppy for about 5 minutes. In this way the puppy learns:

1. To limit the strength of its bite in both play and for real.

2. That biting is counter productive as an attention seeking device.

3. A reinforcement of the fact that the family is more dominant than it is.

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