Our 9 week old GSD female puppy has been microchip-ed. Can I still shake her by the scruff of the neck when I say "no" to teach her to not bite us?

I pick up my pups by the scruff quite often. I don't see any difference between pre and post microchip scruff.

A microchip isn't going to bother a pup.

However, you'd be better off redirecting your pup to a toy when she bites you, rather than shaking her by the scruff. She's a baby...biting is normal puppy behavior...so redirecting her attention away from you is more positve than a physical correction at this stage.

Make sure you have lots of band-aids on hand.

Agree with what Sarah said regarding not shaking by the scruff and redirecting. Consider getting some protective gloves like these:
http://www.ryanspet.com/ryanspet/Category.asp?categoryCode=27
My opinion is that it's better to have the gloves on while you're redirecting her with toys, balls, etc, than to start losing patience with her and not enjoy her while she's learning not to bite you.

What she's doing is normal, it just needs to be redirected.

Hello and thank you for the responses. We tried the shaking because we read it on Ed's web site. The biting we understand but she looks at us & barks. It seems defiant & after my husband told her 'no' she bit him on the arm. That's when we consulted Ed's web pages on puppies. We're also using the redirection.

You say she looks at you and barks. I see nothing wrong with this in a 9 week old pup, nothing.

Does she bark after you've scruffed her? If so, she probably doesn't understand the correction and has the guts to tell you so.

Does she bark at you just to bark at you? If so, she's talking to you, communicating. In which case telling her "no" is the wrong thing to do, especially since she doesn't understand what that word means.

Your husband told her "no" and she bit him. She's a 9 week old puppy. She may be a little defiant (was your husband upset with her - that will bring out defiance in a good dog), but is that necessarily a bad thing in such a young puppy? She has NO CLUE what "no" means, none. The word "no" is so vague to a puppy, because since most people use it often with puppies (and adult dogs), it's used for everything that we perceive as "wrong", and therefore has no black and white meaning, unlike a command such as sit.

Scruffing a pup may work for some, but not all methods work for all dogs. In this case, if your pup is rebelling at the scruff, I would say it's not working for her (especially if she doesn't stop the behavior), so you need to find another way to deal with it. That's one of the reasons I suggested gloves. No pain on your part equals no impatience. No impatience equals clear thinking on how to redirect the pup and enjoy her while she's blossoming and showing you her personality.

I'm not saying you or your husband are being impatient with her, but I know what it feels like to get bit by those teeth and what that kind of pain can do to you if it's done over and over again, opening up still raw wounds. I'm just being realistic on dealing with it. You have to find the method that works for your pup and that has to be the method that works for you. I tried scruffing my pup when he was little, big mistake. It ticked him off and he came at me more and with greater determination. It didn't work for him.