May 18, 2011
Our Rot female puppy is constantly licking or lapping. It bugs me. What can we do to stop it?
Full Question:
Ed,We have a Rottweiler female puppy (born Jan 14th). We also have your puppy training video. Abby has responded well to our correction for jumping up on us. Thank you. She is outlawed from the house because she doesn't control herself and tinkles when she gets excited. Any hints for that? However, the main reason we are writing is because of her constant lapping. Abby loves people, and she laps thin air, hands, thin air, legs, thin air, clothes, and thin air. It drives us crazy. Is it possible to break her of this habit? What should we do? Thank you for your time.
Len and BJ
Ed's Answer:
The pup will outgrow the piddling.
The lapping or licking is a sign of submission in dogs. You would make a serious mistake to try and stop this. People really misunderstand the pack drives of domesticated dogs. This is an example of this. As the dog matures, gains confidence in your relationship this licking will gradually go away. But it is something that many dogs do in one form or another to show that they are a lower rank than their owners.
If you were to try and correct the pup for licking, you would confuse the pup and it would lose confidence and end up having self confidence problems which can really open a can of worms.
The lapping or licking is a sign of submission in dogs. You would make a serious mistake to try and stop this. People really misunderstand the pack drives of domesticated dogs. This is an example of this. As the dog matures, gains confidence in your relationship this licking will gradually go away. But it is something that many dogs do in one form or another to show that they are a lower rank than their owners.
If you were to try and correct the pup for licking, you would confuse the pup and it would lose confidence and end up having self confidence problems which can really open a can of worms.
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