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Everyone has pretty much answered your questions....tug is fine. A dog needs to have prey or retreive drive to 'fetch' a toy as a very young pup. Certain breeds & lines have more than others. You can teach it to fetch a toy as part of future training but for now, just redirect & or stuff a toy in it's mouth when it is biting you. Put the pup on a leash & control it's ability to bite you or chew other undesirable items by controling it's envirenment. It can't chew on things you don't want it to, if you prevent it, by having it on a leash or crated. Pups chew & bite things alot, until they are finished teething. It gets better after that.
Thanks for the advice, everyone! We will give it a try.
I'll offer an alternative plan since I didn't have much luck with redirection. My boy was all about teeth to skin so redirection led from ankle attack to hand attack equally if not more painful. I went the route of controlling the environment and walking away.
I kept him on a light leash and when he went into shark mode; I'd hook him up to a door knob and walk away. When he was calm I'd go back and begin playing with a toy and continue playing (7 seconds ) until teeth to skin and then walk away again. Tug was fine but when it led to his biting my hand the game ended.
He caught on pretty quickly and an "uh" sound interrupted the biting so it was definitely not the problem it had been but I'd say he wasn't reliable in keeping his teeth to himself until he was about 6 or 7 months old.
Yes! That's exactly what ours does! I am going to try the redirect faithfully for awhile, but if that doesn't work, tying to something and working away will definitely be worth a shot.;
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Re: how to walk away and ignore biting pup
[Re: Michael_Wise ]
#259876 - 12/20/2009 03:28 PM 
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) until teeth to skin and then walk away again. Tug was fine but when it led to his biting my hand the game ended. 
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