9 week old EM likes to bite ???

[tyhatts]

Hey everyone

Jenny turned 9 weeks on friday. She is still very much a puppy. I know they love to bite and chew on things at this age. She seems to like to go for your face though ? generally puppys like to lick your face.... but she will try and jump up to bite your face.
I have been using the "gentle" command.... and the " AY AY " tactic... which works at stopping her at that point in time.
When you play with her, she like to bite your fingers and your hands.... which I want to let her do so she can learn how to be gentle right ?
She doesnt seem to be re-acting to the commands Im giving her, and just keeps chewing away !

any way to stop this ? or any techniques I could be using to teach her gentle play ?

 

[Cody]

Give her an alternative to chew on, when she starts on you redirect her to a toy.
I don't correct puppy biting, as it is how they communicate, I just redirect.
If you are consistent they will quickly know what they can and can't do.
As for jumping up to bite your face, is completely normal. They are excited and want to play, then I will use a firm no and give a toy and praise when she bites the toy. At 9 weeks their attention span is minuscule, is just repetition
We love pictures

 

[Abby&Fiona]

I agree with Cody... we also use the ignore tactic.... mostly as our pup gets older... when we ignore her nipping and turn away she realizes when she does it she loses attention.

Just stay consistent and DON'T GIVE UP

 

[tyhatts]

yea ok.... thats what I thought. I just wanted to see if I was on the right track !

I love the training process ... seeing all the work you put in actually working ! I will try to get some pictures of her tonight !

 

[Abby&Fiona]

It takes time, that's for sure... but WORTH IT!

 

[Ellen Sneve]

Another thing i would maybe suggest is holding off on that playing where they bite your hands actually (this is just my opinion) until they are older. If it was me i would distract with a toy and have the pup chew on the toy instead of your body parts. I dk. I might be wrong.

 

[Abby&Fiona]

There are many debates out there that would encourage some mouthing play because the dog needs to learn that bites hurt. This experience helps the dog learn bite inhibition and how to control its mouth. If the bite is harder than a soft mouth YELP like a dog would and see if the puppy reacts... this helps the puppy see that it hurts and careful soft mouth is what needs to be learned.....
A litter mate would yelp or whine back at the puppy, or even growl... communicating in their way helps the puppy learn to control its bite as apposed to being taught NOT to use it ever.... does that make sense?

 

[Ellen Sneve]

Yep, that makes a lot of sense. I was just going to mention puppy behavior and suggest if she ever bit too strongly, he could yelp or make a sound and then move away from the puppy.

 

[Abby&Fiona]

It took our puppy untill she was like 16 weeks old to even NOTICE when we yelped! She didn't give a shit before that! hahahaha Now she is more tuned on on our emotions... which is nice. But still a turkey. We do LOTS of ignoring around here... playing gets TURNED OFF, then we restart it on our terms-not hers. Besides she gets to hang from our EM's face... why does she need to nibble on us! And now she is TEETHING like CRAZY so her mouthing has gotten worse for a phase..... hoping it tapers off quickly! :-/

 

[Skilly]

Provide lots of toys for chewing! At this age they use thier mouth to communicate, so you shouldn't STOP it as such but redirect it to toys as mentioned above. Also letting them bite when they are doing it softly but stopping when they get too rough is good to let them know where to draw the line - the high pitched "yelp" should help as well. Puppies need to bite just as kids need to run. It's about teaching them what is okay to bite on (chew toys not people!) just as you teach a child that it's okay to run outside but not inside. Perhaps play some tug of war gmes with a knotted rope to swiutch over from playing with your hands and fingers. When she bites you, say a firm "No" and take your hands behind your back but then straight away grab a chew toy to give her, and PLAY with her with the toy. She should soon learn that if she bites you, she doesn't get to play, but if she bites the toy, you will play with her.

 

[Cody]

We never corrected for biting. I do want to do bite work with her later on, but she stopped on her own.
That said we also have Aurora who is a GREAT step mom, so Cribs focused a lot of her biting on her.
From 10 weeks- 14weeks Raw's jowls where full of little scabs, when Raw had enough Cribs would get the smack down.
She still will come beside us when we are on the couch and sit on the floor and mouth our hands, half chew, but doesn't hurt and is a comfort thing for her.

 

[dmouse66]

Interesting topis & replies. We got our Neo English at 5 weeks old, before I knew better. He loves to play using his mouth! Started him right away with various toys, from soft stuffed animals to hard teething rubber toys. For the first phase of training amytime he tried to bite (feet, pant legs, face, hands, hair..everything) I would redirect with at toy, commanding just a firm no and when he would chew on the toy he got high praise. Second phase now that he's older, I do let him mouth my hands. This way he lets me feel where teeth are coming in and I can rub his gums and he's learning bite inhabition that he didnt get a chance to learn with his litter mates. Now, when I get home and he wants to use his mouth as part of his greeting, he runs and picks up a toy to hold in his mouth until he settles down! He is only 5 months old and forgets in the heat of playing, or when I'm letting him mouth so he bites hard... thats when I yell OW! and move away from him telling him now "no bite!" and if he's latched on to my clothes "drop it"

 

[STEVSH]

Topaz is now nine months and is still mouthy. We are consistent with the "no bite!" and AH AH AH! and such, but she just can't help herself. Every time I come home and take the gates down to let them out of the kitchen, she puts her mouth around my hand as a greeting. ARG...
And when I try to dance with my daugther, she bites my legs. THAT, I do not like and want to curb right away cuz those bites really hurt.

 

[dmouse66]

everything I've read about mouthing says that is not only how they play but also how they bond. Try the replacement training with big praise & playtime when he holds it in his mouth and firm & disappointed NO with walking away & ignoring play when he bites hands or feet. with the feet its more about chasing something moving so when he does that NO & you and daughter freeze.

 

[cigana]

I have a 7 week old English mastiff and I actually joined the group for the exact same issue. My mastiff is incredibly obessed with attacking our hands, feet, hair, pants, even face. She bites, shakes her head and growls. Shes like an energizer bunny that wont stop. If its not chewing family members, shes chewing things she shouldnt be and she never forgets. I could distract her with a toy but as soon as she knows im out of reach she will go at the same objects I initially distracted her from (carpet, blankets or shoes) This is my first mastiff and prior to owning her I have owned other large breeds like the German Shep, Rotti etc and she is by far the worst for chewing and attacking. At first, I thought I should be concerned; that it may have been because she was taken from her littermates to early but now I'm realizing that those articles and warning behaviours for EM's I've read prior to getting her are not exaggerated at all. Anyways, I will def keep at the directions listed on this forum and I am now prepared that it will last me another few months before she realizes we arent chew toys.

Thanks for the support!!

 

[dmouse66]

at 7 weeks my boy was in a crate when he couldnt be supervised or gated into my kitchen that was puppy-proofed. He also had several toys in different textures and sizes. And just like toddlers with very shot attention spans I alternated his toys. His all time favorite thought is an empty & rinsed gallon milk jug! It was a mastiff website that I read about an EM that had that as the favorite toy. I've attatched one to a rope and my 6 yr old grand daughter runs pulling it behind her and he gives chase. Soon he's too tired to chew on anything!

 

[lynnturner65]

If it's any comfort our EM just turned 6 months and I think we are finally over the chewing on us anyway. She still loves anything paper, there is no safe (or dry) toilet paper in our house!

 

[PeterWilliams]

Well this may be in the worst case. The chewing a toilet paper is sounds something odd. We generally not allow such kind of things to puppy. Well, I think this is a factual case. Most of the dogs or puppy like to chew even they grow big. I tell you what happen in my case, my puppy is now 1yrs old and she like to chew a plastic things. I generally avoid such things from her and try to give food instead of this. But, you must be aware with the face licking because sometimes it can be harmful and she doesn't persist then give a proper injections to avoid future problems. Thanks.

 

[Arcadius Di Troy]

I remember when Arcadius was the exact same way, and as everyone mention it's how they play, and communicate and it's not on purpose, I would just get up away from when he would try to get at my face, and I'd just make sure you have a lot of things to chew on, redirecting his bitting to the toys is the best way, sometimes I would do a high chirp noise to let him know that hurts and he would back away in exchange I would have him chew on a toy. They soon grow out of doing that. I could put my entire fist in his mouth now he would never bite down on it, he is very gentle. I would also freeze a chunck of ice w/ a rope frozen in it so he could pull, and tug on it, because again they are also teething and this is when they really want to bite, and chew on anything and everything, the ice was a fun game and it also soothed his gums. Arcadius would play with it for as long as it would last, he would also bite, lick at it, bite chunks off, kept him busy. =)

 

[yayalynn]

They are excited and want to play, then I will use a firm no and give a toy and praise when she bites the toy....




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