Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Biting Puppy Syndrome?

By G D Williams

Dogs are acknowledged to be man's best friend, you as the owner of the dog, are reliable for training your dog, if you want him to live up to being mans best friend. when you take home that cute little dog it has a loving and rough-and-tumble nature. What he requires is discipline and that is you come into play.

Altogether dogs are ordinarily the most adorable of pets, inherently loyal, fun loving, comforting and always entertaining. Nevertheless, you have to face the fact that dogs are three years old standing in terms of discipline. That is why a training program early is needed. Dogs utterly love their owners affection and like to please them. It is up to you to make your pup recognize what is required of him in the way he behaves. In their view, life is in a never-ending state of fun. They have no idea what is good or bad behavior, unless you let them know what is. One of the most everyday dog behaviour problems you will have stop is the biting pup syndrome.

Pups enjoy chewing on everything, as any dog owner can affirm. The biting puppy may have an enjoyable session with your favourite slippers, a book or a tasty bone. He should for certain be able to enjoy his bone, but you have got to provide behavioral guidance that steers him away from your slippers or your current reading material. He does not see there's a difference, unless you let him know. If you just let him do his thing, he will soon be an irreverent biting pup, with the whole world in his approved list of biting behavior. If you're an irresponsible dog owner, you have no one to blame but yourself when he graduates to biting you, your children or your next door neighbour whenever it pleases him. The biting pup, unchecked, will become a biting dog, landing you and him in a whole lot of trouble.

Like children, dogs need behavioral counseling. To get a biting puppy to realise their are constraints is very simple. Where do you draw the line? Biting food and bones is a good rule. Anything else is breaking any understanding you have with your dog. If you permit them to chew on a old worn out pair of slippers, this is giving them a license to bite and chew a variety of household items. He can not distinguish between things that are good to bite and those that they are not.

Pups that are teething are likely to be biting puppies. However, you might think its cute with the decimation role he played the day before, but you have to put your foot down. Dogs only understand the rules if they are absolute. Correct or not is Right. The punishment should also fit the crime. In the case of inanimate objects, a paper rolled up with a sharp noise report, will get your message across.

You must keep in reserve the most severe punishment for offenses involving your pup biting a human being. No matter how fun loving, or with no malice, a puppy should be deterred from the idea that biting a person is acceptable. Let's say that your son decided to share some pieces of fat from their plate with your pup. He is certainly willing to share in this tasty morsel, inadvertently biting him. While your pet meant no harm, if you were to let this go unpunished, you are giving him a green light for a behavior that spells problems down the road.

In order to cut off immediately and unequivocally puppy biting behaviour, you will have to come down on him hard. A strong blow to the nose, the removal of the food and a dog version of time out is what we have to impose. Slip on his leash and give him a taste of isolation on his own, along with a "bad dog." This is the language and action that he can understand. He knows that his conduct resulted in a punishment, the loss of the desired item and isolation from his family.

Using this strategy, you can quickly and easily train your biting pup right out of his bad habit. By the time he's 6 months old, you will have a permanent toddler dog who knows his limitations!

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