How To Stop Puppy Nipping & Biting
All puppies nip or bite at your hands, fingers, toes, feet, and ankles. But there's a reason you should not allow this behavior any more. Here's how to stop a puppy's nipping and biting...
While all puppies nibble and bite on your hands, your ankles, and everything else they can get their mouth on, you should not permit this behavior with you (or other people) for this one reason:
Biting says, "I'm more dominant than you."
Biting at a person's hand is the puppy's way of testing their dominance in the pack. (Yes, you are part of his "pack" now.)
Since there should never be any question that YOU are the Alpha dog, from this day forward you must never allow a puppy to nibble or bite at your hands (or feet).
How To Stop The Nipping
To break a puppy from nipping or biting:
The trick is consistency. From this point forward, you should never let your puppy mouth on peoples' hands or nip at any other person from now on.
...It won't take long before puppy gets the message!
"Stop your puppy from nipping by covering your hand with peanut butter and letting it lick it off. This trains it to associate licking with the hand, not nipping. Never hit the dog's nose or mouth." --Tamar Geller, animal behaviorist
Here is another method I think you might consider when attempting to stop your puppy from biting or nipping. Check this method out and let me know what you think:
http://www.thedogtrainingsecret.com/blog/stop-puppy-nipping-urgecontrol/
Thank You...He's so CUTE!!!!!!!!!
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In answer to your question, that puppy is our dog Tenor. He's part Black Lab and part Great Pyrenees.
There are lots more pictures of Tenor here.
What breed is the little black puppy with white on it's feet? The reason I'm asking I have got a fox red lab and she had puppies about a month ago and they all look like that puppy in the pic....just trying to figure out what the daddy might be? Thanks