I know lots of posts on this topic. My pup is 16 weeks and I stopped tug work for about 3 days. She was bitting everything that moved by the third day. I started light
tug work and she calmed down a little. I do not think she wants to stop but I will lighten the pressure alot. Her grip is a lot looser and her gums are all swollen up.

Steve

We have a pup about 16 weeks of age that was sacked last Monday at our Schutzhund club and she lost her tooth on the side walk as he was putting her up,the owner of this pup didn't mention that his dog was at a teething stage and she bleed on the sack and we found a tooth on the side walk. But she was fired up to get her sack!. Our club trainer told him to give her a break and use a rag to play with her if he must, and not to pull on it much.I know it's hard to take a break when they are crazy with biting everyting including your hands and fingers!

This comes up a few times in Ed's articles. Here are a couple:

http://www.leerburg.com/qapropup.htm#teeth

http://www.leerburg.com/pupbite.htm

My puppy is mostly done teething now! I think the last baby tooth fell out the day before yesterday.

I didn't work with my puppy in any serious biting or tug games while I was waiting for teething to do its thing, but we did some drive-building exersizes that involved stimulating her prey drive for a while, and then her getting the toy at the end but not having to fight for it once she caught it. She was not biting hard during that time, nor with a full mouth, the bite was pretty crummy actually. Now that the last teeth are out, the bite she had before teething is coming back. We were goofing around tonight and she got ahold of my lower leg and was tugging for it, and it was a hard, full-mouthed bite. I still feel like I want to wait until that last hole in her gum closes up more, but she herself doesn't seem to want to!

I have this DVD: http://www.leerburg.com/pupbite.htm . It gives you some ideas on things you can do, plus that HTML page discusses it. I was being really careful to not yank the toy out of my puppy's mouth, and I think it worked out.

Connie,

Great articles thanks.
I start a walk with chase the rag and end the walk with
chase the rag and then carry and run with the rag.
She really loves it and thank GOD she is relaxing on bitting me.
I never had a puppy so hyper and mouthy. Training (protection) sure seems like a really really really long ways away.

Steve

Sounds like you have a really nice pup. But they're young only once & it seems such a short time when they're all grown up... hang in there .

I felt like talking about this a little more. I eased up on the tracking but more ball work and she loves it. She also loves to run with the bite rag. And I mean she really loves to run with the bite rag. She is still very hyper but I have noticed her tracking my foot prints in the snow all by herself. I think that is my quuu too start more track work. Bite work is a little diff i am assuming do to her teeething. Some big teeth in and some little teeth missing. But no matter what she will bite the crap out of me. She goes every where with the family. Sleding today with the son and my wife says "what you are bringing the dog" it was a good time for all. My 19 month old son loves the puppy and even does tug work with him so funny.
I have noticed one thing lately with the bitch. When people are far away she will bark at them. A deep bark. Up close she has confidence and just runs up and plays. Once in a blue moon she gets scrared . Guy on bike tries to pet her when she never seen bike before. Or big person with fluffy jacket backs her up.
But her recovery time is always fast and is playing with them before to long. I think she is a real good bitch aND HOPEFULLY WILL WORK OUT FOR pp .PSA is my goal for her. Happy with her so far but at 5 months old hard to tell. She dam sure is more secure then my two white sheps i have raised. Long post but hey I am having fun. i am just lookijng for a working family dog not a 1 in a million hard core extention of my ego.

Lovelife