Help!! Puppy nipping and it hurts!

janninew

Aberdeen_Taff wrote: »

I've always found that having a bottle handy with water in it and squirting the dog with it (along with a firm 'no') has rectified any problems we've ever had with dogs - jumping, chasing strangers, nipping etc.

It's pain free but every dog we've had hasn't liked it and the production of the bottle itself has usually sufficed after a short amount of time.

Friends of ours have a Rhodesian Ridgeback and tried this to stop him runing at and jumping up on people entering the garden and it worked brilliantly.

It's something else to think about if your other plans don't work.

I tried that with my dogs (boxers) and they thought it was a great game, snapping at the water!! :rotfl: Might work with some breeds, but didn't work with mine! Anything is worth a shot though!!

poppett

I have had my German Shepherd pup for 2 weeks now and I had the same problem. I was told to yelp in a high pitched voice when he bit becasue this is what the rest of the litter would have done when they were nipping each other. Over the past week his nipping has got much less, he still does it first thing in the morning when he is excited to see us but on the whole it is working.

jessicamb

I used to cry ow and pull my hand away and it worked well enough - they didnt nip past puppyhood