My 5 month old gsd puppy keeps biting my girlfriend really hard. He will just run upto her and start attacking her (playfully.) I yell NO to him and sometimes he stops, but sometimes he doesn't and when I try to pull him off her he sometimes starts biting me. He also starts biting me really hard out of nowhere when I take him for walks sometimes. How can I get him to stop? I have tried yelling at him and jerking him with the leash, but nothing seems to work. And when my girlfriend yells at him or pushes him away, he thinks she is playing with him and starts doing it harder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
when he bites you grab him by the scruff of the neck and shake him. you need to establish the pack order. try getting the dvd my pup 8 weeks to 8 months. it will answer all the questions you will or could have.
Diana Matusik Webboard User Reg: 04-27-2004
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I think Ed has said in the past he advises that correction for very hard pups and that that sort of correction could really wreck a pup otherwise (it's in one of his articles, can't remember for the life of me). Anyway, he's probably just being playful, dominant, and while you do want to correct this if it's just going to be a pet you also want to redirect onto an acceptable chew toy. Puppies will bite and chew, that's how it is and that's how it always will be, and we simply have to teach them that our body parts aren't their own personal interactive squeak toys. Pick one chew toy and as soon as he goes for you or your girl correct him immediately, give him the toy and praise him lots when he takes hold of it.
Agreed on establishing pack order! Make sure he sees you and your girl as higher up on the rank ladder than he is!
If I'm in the absence of a toy, and for serious chomping of me, I did not want to "correct" the dog per se, but I did want him to associate that kind of biting (of me) with something decidedly boring and un-fun. I stupidly tried a scruff shake once, but that actually just fired him up more.
Me, I just lift him up slightly with his flat collar and do the low, stern, "No" thing and look in his eyes.
He's trained me to cringe on behalf of my calves whenever he comes running up from behind, but I haven't gotten nailed for quite some time, and his desire for non-flesh prey items is still coming along.
My German Shepherd 11 week old puppy was the same way with me.
Someone on another forum suggested using a can with rocks or pennies in it and with the hole taped over.When the puppy bites shake the can that usually will stop them.
I used the can and she hasn`t try to bite me since i shook it a couple of times in the last week.
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Also when the dog gets used to the sound of the bottle it couldn't care less how many times you shake.
There are many more productive ways to teach your puppy not to bite you. Redirection is by far my favourite and worked very well for me, the bottle was used for something else, can't remember what now but I think it was jumping on the couch and it did work the first couple of times but after that we had to do some real training!
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Keep the pup on a short leash - literally - so that it can't get to the girlfriend to nip.
Make sure there is no chance to reinforce the undesired behavior, and teach appropriate behaviors. Look, leave it, sit, down, back, crate, place are all commands that can be used to prevent undesired behavior like jumping/nipping. Reward appropriate behaviors with a tug or chew toy.
Don't make the mistake of putting you energy, activity and command "no bite" on the undesired activity (jumping nipping). Put your energy, activity and command "quiet" on the good behavior (sit).
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