Stop puppy biting with handling games
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- This is an in depth tutorial on how to teach your puppy to be calm and relaxed when being handled and petted. The tutorial also covers how to manage and prevent puppy biting as well as what to do if your puppy does bite you or become mouthy. I will be shortly making another tutorial on how to teach your puppy to not bite your clothes or the leash. However I do have an older video on that you can check out if you simply cant wait.
The third step requires the puppy has a few other skills under his belt. You can train them all as soon as you get your puppy. And then after a couple of weeks add all the skills together. My puppy in the video I had been training for 2 weeks already when we were demoing step 3. As you can see, calm handling pays off!
The first exercises to work with your puppy on along side handling exercises are:
The default leave it from treats in your hand or bait bag- • No Mugging - What to t...
The attention noise/eye contact- • FASTEST and EASIEST wa...
The settle- • Capturing Calmness- ho...
If you have an extremely shy puppy you can work on the puppy touching your fingers first before you start touching your puppy- • Touch - target trainin...
This video covers how to teach your puppy not to bite at your clothes and accessories: • STOP puppy BITING clothes
A big thank you to Ansel the German Shepherd puppy for co starring in this video!
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- Emily Larlham (AKA Kikopup)
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This video covers how to teach your puppy not to bite at your clothes and accessories: th-cam.com/video/PwLfbkc8N24/w-d-xo.html
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I love your clear guidance and super cute Halo! Thank you for sharing your great video as usual :D
I've always loved your channel since I found it and recommend it to people, and this new format looks really great and is very clear and informative, you really deserve more attention :) Thank You
Brilliant as always. Thank you so much for sharing!
So glad I found your channel!! Not only do you provide great training tips but I also just got a red merle Aussie and it just helps to see the training go hand in hand with the same breed.
I love your approach to training, and I'm excited to put this into practice with my new pup
Love your videos!! You breakdown and explain what needs to be done with your puppy. A very informative and wonderful video....
I’m watching all your videos over and over. Thank you so much for sharing. You are absolutely amazing!
Fantastic tutorial in a bite size piece!!! Your the best by far.
Absolutely love what you do. Thanks so much.
Great video.. getting our new toy Aussie today and can’t wait to use your advice.. we live in a 3 story condo in downtown so house training will be the biggest challenge!!
Thank you for sharing this! I've been wondering how to work on this with my chompy puppy, and I'm excited to finally have some guidance.
I wish I had this video when my dog came home 18 months ago! He is so adorable - this video needs to be watched twice: once for you and once for Halo!
As always, you are the BEST!
I really enjoy your technique of training and how well you explain everything, trying to include every situation that may arise. Thank you so very much for sharing your skills so owners and pets can have the best relationships possible.
Love it! Thank you, that was very helpful.
I'll definitely be trying this out with my puppy.
Love that you are sharing this with the World! Please do more and keep it up 🙏❤️🐕
thanks! I will
Those handling exercises are key.
You have made an entertaining and instructive tutorial. Thanks.
Thanks Ted!
@@kikopup This puppy is much too sweet to concentrate on their mistakes.The same puppy with the black points and the mother played in the park.This was sooooooo sweet,when the puppy ran to get the mother.Dear,Kikopup,this dogs are too sweet to concentrate on everything.Even,when the puppy bites me,i wanted the puppy go on,sweet pain like beeing tattooed.Too sweet.Every mistake is a reason to love them more.
For me, this is by far the best, most practical video I've seen on TH-cam on the topic of puppy biting. Thank you.
Awe thanks :)
What a lovely video. It would be good to learn this stuff at school.
This should be mandatory for all new dog owners. Brilliant as always and Halo is too cute. I'd never have thought of step 1 and the tip about calm treat delivery seems so obvious now. This is a great handling exercise puppy or otherwise. Broken down further, would make a great counter conditioning process for those dogs who need it. (I'm thinking for one of mine who tolerates handling and could be helped made to feel a lot more comfortable).
Thank you as always !
Thank you so much Emily for your great video, It is extremely helpful and has already helped me with my 17 weeks pup. I really like your approach it sounds and feels right and WORKS!
One of my favorite videos of yours! Such a good explanation! My kids are learning to handle a puppy with this video: it is clear, easy to follow and teaches them to be calm around the puppy! Thank you!!
Oh awesome well done!!!
Wow! You are so good 💯 Thank you 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise! We have an 8 m Pyr Aussie mix (who has a Pyr personality) and, as a cat person, I'm at a loss for how to interact / train her. Your videos, especially this one, are a huge help. I have skills now, that give me confidence that I'm not ruining her or reinforcing unwanted behaviors. Thank you!!!!
Awe! Glad I could be of help!
Well done!
Thanks Nate!
He was like : I want this toy. And this one. And this one! He's so rich!
lol. Yes he does love his toys now
@@kikopup The australian shepheard is so endless sweet that it's hard to concentrate,if there's a problem.
Please,dear Kikopup,understand me right.This is correct and sweet. I think,work with most dangerous protection dogs is another level.
Means not,that you don't care for those,i told. But malinois train for military grounds is surely most difficult and painful.
Thank you so much for all your content. Should training sessions replace meals? What sort of treats do you use? I cut up puperoni's, but I wonder if I am making them too large.
Thanks. Our new puppy is extremely mouthy and she is now 13 weeks old. We tried the "saying ouch" (which really doesn't work), not giving attention (where I put my hands away and stay still until she calms down), redirecting, and putting her back in her own play area. The stop giving attention, redirecting, or putting her back in her area works some for play biting. However, she gets very mouthy with petting and I had not seen any solutions to this. We can hardly ever hold or pet her without her biting. Now I'm going to use your methods to address the mouthing behavior since most of it seems stemmed from her being excited and curious. We have never had a puppy like this and our previous puppy didn't hardly go through any teething issues. We have been using Kongs and a few other chew toys.
I recently found your training videos and love them! I'm curious: do you think this method will work on a 1-year-old dog? Our dog has become incredibly mouthy in her adolescence. Thanks!
Excellent videos. Really helping with our new puppy. :0)
This is excellent
Love your videos, they've helped me so much! I love the positive reinforcement training. I've been working on this, the biting at clothes and capturing calmness since I got my border collie pup about a week ago. He does SO well in training but has started nipping really hard if he knows I don't have the clicker or treats. Does he really know and differentiate between the two situations? I'm trying to keep him physically and mentally stimulated, enforcing naps and alone time but the past two days he's been downright CRAZY with the nipping. Just a puppy phase I'm hoping??
Hello, I know its a year old comment but I am really hopeful to know how your BC is doing now since I am new BC pup owner. Thanks
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Clever lady, so lovey dogs, grown an puppies
Hi, first I want thank you for all your videos, they helped us so so much. We made a mistake by training our puppy with food too much and too often. Now we have a situation that she bites us really aggressively when she wants treats. We decided to stop for a week with training in the house, and reinforce calmness, but the biting got really, really worse. it hurts so much we cry from pain. We are really lost and don't know what to do. Any ideas?
YOU ARE A GENIUS. I watched a lot of tutorials and advices on this matter and to my knowledge you are the only one that recommend the handling approach, which makes a lot of sense. It inspired me something. As I would like to teach my puppy to give a kiss on on hand, I was thinking I could give her the command "give a kiss" when she bites to redirect her? Do you think it would be a good idea in this context? Thank you so much for your knowledge and your helpful videos. I am looking for the best solution as she likes to bite a lot. I am a very patient person, but my partner is not as half patient and get frustrated with her sharp teeth ;)
I'd not use licking as the alternate behavior. Id wait until shes older and not biting any more to get the trick of giving a lick on cue. This is because licking is so similar to mouthing, you could get a couple licks then a nip. It would be easier to teach ignore the hands and let them do what they are doing rather than lick them.
Great video, does pup have a name yet? You could call him Puppy ;)
My Aussie/shepherd pup has a high nip/pokey instinct, the first thing we did was many of the things you covered but really focused on her kisses, we captured that and now she prefers that and can more easily be redirected to that because she loves to kiss. I knew this was really crucial as she is a service dog and I could not risk her biting, not even a love nip. Because she is so grabby we play a lot of your grab games from your other videos so she could learn to halt, let go and drop. It really does work beautifully but I will say she is a very immature pup, it took her until now to really calm down a lot of behaviors to focus on many things especially walking, she is now 29 months old(2 years and 5 months. This is the year we are taking all she has learned to those zones she has to really focus in, your lessons have been very valuable. I have also share this with others and refer them often to your videos even if it just to watch for fun. Prayers and blessings and keep sharing, my Cinder-Ella and Winnie-Fur send you all puppy hellos.
Awe I am glad you have made so much progress!
I love these videos and find them super helpful but my 18 week old pup goes crazy when I try to put her harness on. I am very calm with her and have tried various harnesses and recommended techniques but she turns into a snarling monster and bites. Would really appreciate your advice.
The head ducking from an approaching hand. For some reason, my 7 yr old Shih Tzu mix started doing that and it's not an avoidance because of punishment. That looks like it would work well for my older fur buddy as well since I've never punished my dog, instead, I work misbehavior into a training opportunity.
Súper! Thank you!
Good job.. Brava ragazza e collega...
Would love a video on show and tell and leash aggression
what is show and tell. I have a VOD on my website for Reactivity
I just wanted to add a little tip that I have found is working really well in conjunction with your videos and advice about soft handling, taking treats softly etc: I have taught Bonnie 'Lick'. So now, when she goes to mouth me, especially if I can predict it's going to be a little exuberant, I say 'Lick', she licks, she gets a treat, and the bitey mini-crisis is over again.
Awe thats awesome!
@@kikopup I hadn't spotted your 'Touch' video or I might have just tried that. But I think there is the extra benefit that I can use the cue 'Lick' when she actually has her nasty little nippers around my hand. She can nonchalantly turn bite into lick without losing face. (A moment or two ago she actually beat me to it, and turned bite into lick before I suggested it!). Your techniques are so, so good (I'm sure you know). I just wish there were more hours in the day, because there is SO much to work on, and I want to do it all now!
Oh my goodness - please come train my puppy!
Is it okay to put him in his pen for a little bit if he's getting out of hand?
I feel bad for doing that
How many days should you do this and for how long should each session be?
Is it okay if when I give my puppy a command, like sit, and I want to reward him he looks at my treat bag while I'm reaching for the treat. He looks at me once he's sat or lied down or whatever but once I move my hand towards the pouch he looks there and then looks at the treat as I give it to him.
Hi Emily. Thanks for making this video. I've been using these handling exercises and they have helped me teach our 10-week old puppy to let us pet her gently without biting and use handling to calm her down. I do still have one issue I am trying to find a solution to. She likes to bite my feet, but not my wife's feet. I'm not sure what is different that makes her prefer to bite my feet. Neither of us wear shoes because we haven't conditioned her to leave shoes alone yet. What would be the best way for us to seek advice from yourself or another trainer like you on how to work with her to reinforce not biting my feet? Thanks in advance.
I suggest playing games like in this video with clothes and shoes but with the movement of you just walking past th-cam.com/video/PwLfbkc8N24/w-d-xo.html And then in situations you know your puppy will go for your feet and it isnt time to train just pick up your pup.
@@kikopup OMG I tried this earlier today and it's already working wonderfully. Thank you so much. I didn't think of picking her up during non-training times, so that's a good idea too.
What do you do if when you walk away your puppy latches on to your ankles. Like I literally have to pry his teeth off my pants because he won’t let go. How do I handle this humanely ? It hurts.
I adopted a 50 lb puppy; he hasn't been neutered and is almost a year old. I am able to redirect to a chew toy. He brings it near me and transfers from the chew toy back to me. I get up and leave the room. When I reenter he's waiting and "ambushes" me. I leave the room again. When I return, he's sitting in my chair.
To avoid him using getting me to leave to take my chair, I have started standing and calmly saying enough. He will then select a chew toy from the ones already on the floor, or go lay down on his bed or lay down by the front door. I say yes, but don't treat as it produces excitement even using less stimulating rewards like his kibble.
Thor is a lab shepherd mix and a little undersized for his age. He is very smart. Sometimes it is almost like he is modifying my behavior! Lately when I start to stand, Thor jumps up throwing his whole body weight at me knocking me back in my chair! He is not being aggressive; his body language is playful.
I am a dog trainer. Thor every technique I have successfully used with other puppies and older dogs don't seem to work with Thor. The plus side of my experience with Thor is going to make me a better trainer. The thing is, I am extremely limited as to what I can use as a positive reinforcement. Food excites him, toys excite him, a scratch behind the ear is exciting, eye contact excites him. I am limited to capturing foundation behaviors using verbal praise only.
Thor limits his puppy biting to me. He is very friendly towards girls and women. He is more shy around men; Thor either stands by my side or slightly behind me. I instruct them to let him choose to come to them. Let him sniff; it's not necessary to stick your hand out. If Thor chooses not to come to them, I ask people to respect Thor's choice. In a strange way I suppose I should be complimented that Thor chooses only to bite me. I guess it means that he trusts me.
What a beauty, what kind of dog is it?
a border collie
Good
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Clarifying question. Should we we be aiming to try step 1 and step 2 in the same training session? Or should we only do 1 step for whole sessions and then transitioning to step 2 for whole sessions?
I can't figure this one out. In the moment when you interrupt his biting, why doesn't he learn to bite to get your attention and playtime? What if he stops responding to the attention noises?
Where do u get these gorgeous dogs. What breeder?
This pup is from Blitzen's Border Collies.
Trying to play the step one of this game, but my dog immediately starts nibbling my hands and legs when we start. I'll leave the room for a minute to reset. But when I sit down again to try again, he'll immediately start biting again. Any recommendations when it's really hard just to get started?
How many treats do you use per training session for a 9 week old puppy? Ours is only slightly interested in kibble but don’t want to over feed her straight meet or salty processed stuff. Thank you!!
th-cam.com/video/6P_MYUhd_BY/w-d-xo.html I have this video that gives examples of sizes. Then there is this video on how long to train th-cam.com/video/Wn9qtqlZguY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much.
Hi Emily, I love your videos, but I have just watched a video by someone else who talks about 'ABI'. I had been doing what you suggest above, handling Bonnie gently while giving her treats, diverting her with training or toys or whatever. I thought it was working OK, but in between these sessions she can sometimes unexpectedly launch herself at me, and sink her teeth into my leg or breast or chin. Sometimes she gets really hyped up and won't stop, and it seems like the only interaction she wants with me is to bite me.
So I watched a few other videos, and the guy was talking about a window of opportunity for the puppy to learn bite inhibition. He said that you have to let them do it or it is a missed opportunity and they will never learn not to bite hard. He said to say 'Ouch!' and keep on saying it, and doing this for weeks if necessary, until the strength of bite diminishes. I wonder what your take is on this?
I have been trying it for two days now, but actually Bonnie doesn't really seem to care if I say Ouch! I have been getting louder and louder: sometimes it really does HURT and is genuine, other times she just ignores me, so I feel I have to do it loud enough for her to notice and if anything gets more excited than ever. She seems to get more persistent, just jumps at me, or bites harder, or snarls at me. I don't think I want to carry on doing the 'Ouch!' thing, as it's not doing either of us any good and it is not great for my neighbours in coronavirus lockdown either! But now I am really worried about this 'lost opportunity', 'got to do it' thing.
I really like the way you are with your dogs, and your videos are like little magic wands. I would be so grateful if you could give us your take on the ABI thing, as you don't mention it at all. Thank you!
PS Bonnie is a 12 week Border Collie
Hi PermaHeretic, its Dr Ian Dunbar that promotes the games where you gradually shape a puppy to bite less hard. And I love Ian Dunbar and respect his work. My thinking is on preventing rehearsal of biting humans completely. And the results Ive gotten is dogs that never get mouthy on humans when aroused. I do think bite inhibition is extremely important and for me the best way to train it is that the puppy played with littermates and mom and other dogs up until 8 weeks or more. That the puppy plays with other puppies or dogs who are a calm influence and have polite play manners, and for me most importantly the owner is working with training daily and feeding the puppy treats to the mouth in which the puppy learns to open and close the mouth delicately to take the treat- here is a video called take treats nicely which you can do if your puppy takes treats hard. th-cam.com/video/KXDWbtx44b8/w-d-xo.html If your puppy is not taking treats hard that is a super awesome sign. What you describe where the puppy snarls and bites you sounds related to frustration and arousal but I of course am not there, and you could get help from a vet behaviorist if you start to worry its aggression. For me the root cause is over arousal and frustration. 1 - you need to prevent it happening as much as you can - write a list of times it happens and situations it happens in 2 interrupt it as soon as it starts 3 keep up the training where you are teaching your puppy not to bite and be calm when hands touch her, when shoes shuffle, when objects move, and lastly when you move. Here is a video on interrupting behavior th-cam.com/video/yLr3ame9Ptk/w-d-xo.html I would quickly pick up the puppy and put her in a large pen where she can play on her own, rather than be loose and bite you. th-cam.com/video/62NNwZtbtIA/w-d-xo.html Start conditioning the collar grab, but dont try to use if for when the puppy gets mouthy because it most likely will make her more mouthy. But train this daily for 2 weeks so taking the dogs collar has a calming influence. That way in the future if your dog gets over aroused you can take the collar to help calm the dog down. If the behavior is frustration related and you use punishment it can have the potential side effect of the biting getting more severe.
I trained 2 of my dogs by distracting them with toys every time they started to bite and I wanted to try something new by training my most recent puppy by the ouch method. It worked for me to get him to stop biting as hard but he still sometimes will nip at my feet when he's feeling playful. My other 2 dogs didn't have this problem so I'd say I wouldn't worry too much about missing your window just try to get the puppy used to biting toys instead of extremities and the pressure of a bite won't matter because they will always know you don't bite people anyway. At least that is my experience, best of luck!
@@kikopup Thank you so much Emily, it is very kind of you to take the trouble to leave such a full reply. She has started to take the treats harder; she was very gentle at first, so I had been thinking it was time to watch that video. I think she does have different bites: the play mouthing, which is actually quite soft, and a snarly leap-at-me type - which I think, as you say, is over arousal, but also tiredness. She has a good go, then flakes out (just like toddlers do). I think that is the behaviour I should simply not allow, and set things up so it doesn't happen. I will look up the collar grab; I hadn't spotted that one. Unfortunately no puppy-club or playdates at the moment with coronavirus social isolation, but I bought her a pen which arrived today, and I think that will help. She seemed pretty happy in it earlier, without any training, just me working alongside - she actually chose to go and lie in her crate, which I thought was really sweet.
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I 100% needed to see this today. We have a puppy that we mistakenly got early (6 weeks). She is a bully breed (pit mix). She is mouthy when over aroused. We are really training her to be calm in situations and manage her environment. I was trying to work on bite inhibition and when she is just calmly playing/mouthing she is gentle. When she is aroused / excited she bites. I have two children (3 and 8). They know to be calm but knowing and doing are two different things. So I have the issue of teaching a 9 week old puppy calmness around excitement. Plus trying to say ouch doesn’t work when she’s aroused. I’ve gone to this training method. Zero teeth on humans. It’s a process. I’ve been frustrated to the point of tears. Thank you SO MUCH for putting out this content.
A great one! How old was your puppy there?
What do you use as food for the treat? An actual treat or the dog's regular food?
Hope we will get an answer from "dog training kikopup" ?
I use their food when I can- kibble. But for some behaviors I need a higher value treat, so I use real meat or tiny bits of cheese or healthy hot dogs (turkey dogs I use the most). Sometimes commercial dog treats, but they tend to have a lot of weird added ingredients that are not healthy.
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I use their food when I can- kibble. But for some behaviors I need a higher value treat, so I use real meat or tiny bits of cheese or healthy hot dogs (turkey dogs I use the most). Sometimes commercial dog treats, but they tend to have a lot of weird added ingredients that are not healthy.
I don’t know how to exercise my puppy. I have a 10 week old hound mix. He is very bitty especially at feet/pant legs. I’ve done a lot of training with him from day one (got him at 8 weeks) He is good with giving me his attention and coming when I call, sit, lay down, touch, and pretty good with sit/stay/and leave it. But that’s all while he is in training mode. When he gets over stimulated he won’t listen to anything. I try very hard to not over stimulate him. Sometimes I can predict when he will attack but a lot of time he will be perfectly calm and then just go crazy on my legs. And of course when I pull him off (because he won’t listen to any commands) he becomes aggressive. My problem with lack of exercise is this, when we are outside all he wants to do is attack my feet. So I do trainings to get him to sit and stay and leave my feet alone, which he will do well and he will listen but the problem is he is only focused on me and getting the treats. I try to get him to play. I have balls and tugs and frisbees even puzzle games for mental stimulation. But he doesn’t want to play with the toys he just wants to either attack my feet or do training for treats. If I ignore him he try’s to go for my feet, if I try to engage with him with a toy, he try’s to go for my feet’s. And yes I have him on a leash at all times outside and inside. The only time he doesn’t have a leash is if he is in his play pen or kennel. Yesterday I tried giving him alone time outside for the first time and all he did was look for me and cry at the door that I left through. I only let that go on for like 5 minutes before I steps back out. The only thing I can think of is to keep working on getting him comfortable with being outside on his own cause I don’t know how else to get him exercise and I hope that if he had more exercise he would be less bitty and aggressive. This is very very frustrating. We just bought a house with a big fenced in back yard and I never thought in a million years I would have a problem of not knowing how to exercise my puppy cause all he want to do in bite me or do training for treats. Not interested in toys, not interested in exploring on his own. Please please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thank you
That sounds really frustrating. I suggest when you leave him leave him and cant watch him in a large pen and not a crate, with a bed area and toys. To encourage him making choices and playing with the toys. I suggest getting a toy on a string- you can make this and drag it around (when there are no treats present) to see if the movement excites him. I suggest for walks just begin with treats and being focused on them. you can feed him for position like in this video instagram.com/p/CHbuvgUnh7C/ Then you can sprinkle a few treats in the grass and teach him to search for them. This will get him sniffing and exploring in the grass. If he looks up at you the whole walk, choose those moments that he turns his head to look at something else for a milisecond and use that time to tell him hes good and then move to feed a treat.
Hi, I am working hard on this but my puppy still becomes mouthy when she is excited or playful. what can I do more? I am doing this exercise at least once a day using her kibbles and other higher-value treats too.
I suggest to keep building her toys as the most reinforcing thing to play with. If she starts to want to bite at you to play you can put her in her pen with toys and sit next to it so you are out of reach of her teeth.
@@kikopup Thank you for answering. how do you build value on toys? do you have a video for that too? your video tutorials have been extremely helpful.
We're doing the handling exercises and it's working well. We can pat him now. However when the puppy gets over excited or frustrated (e.g. on a walk) he starts biting my legs so hard. I try to put him into a sit and down but he still attacks my legs afterwards and breaks skin. Can I tell him to stop? I can't even put him in a pen to chill cause he's trying to bite my hands and my face :( 2,5 month old Akita
Hi Daria, I really do suggest getting help from a trainer. I can't help with this sort of thing online but another trainer I know does online consults for this - www.completecanines.com/michael-shikashio/ This is a problem you really need help with because if it keeps getting rehearsed your dog when he gets frustrated or aroused can start mouthing and biting and the size of your dog makes it extremely important to seek help. Using punishment can actually in some cases cause the side effect of more biting. So the most important plan is preventing the behavior to begin with using management and getting help from a trainer you can come up with a great plan for management and behavior modification.
How do you manage a pup that is not motivated by treats...have tried kibble. cooked meat and various other supposed irresistible temptations, but she will just ignore them or take them and drop them out of her mouth. Even if hungry...e.g before meal times.
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Our puppy gets very excited after she sees us even if we are gone for just 15 minutes. When she comes to greet us she bites us playfully in places like our hands and ears. Can you please help us solve this issue? She is very friendly and she has started to do this when guests come over too.. Thanks! You and your sweet little team are awesome!
I suggest acting calm when you first open the door you can drop treats on the way to go outside to go to the bathroom. Then if you want to "say hi" to the puppy wait about 10 mins after you have come home to tell your puppy how much you love them... and the puppy will be calmer and less likely to bite. You can also practice in training sessions talking to your puppy in a high pitched excited voice and marking and feeding for not jumping or biting- because most likely guests will slip up and do exciting stuff. Keep up the handling exercises in the training session as well it is so important. When guests come over you could first begin with the puppy on leash getting treats for seeing them but not getting to say hi until calmer, or you could begin with little walk together outside before they come in.
What happens when your puppy gets way to excited??😭😭 how do you calm your pup down without saying “no” or “stop”. I have a 12 week old English bulldog & he’s full of energy
My 10 wk old yellow lab is so excited when i get treats out that he climbs all over me, jumps, mouths. We're working on settle and luring and just went back to calm handling but hes not giving me rewardable behavior due to excitement over the food. If i move away, turn my back or raise treat, he just jumps more. Help!
goodness, that does sound like a lab puppy. A lot can be quite excited by food like that and also take the treats really hard. I suggest for the next few weeks to train AFTER he's just had a meal and avoid training when he's not had food for a while.You can also try to begin with lower value food, just as his kibble he eats, and then get him habituated to new foods by adding them to his dinner, so its not so exciting in the training. Here is a video about dogs who are too excited by food th-cam.com/video/DR831Q2fv-U/w-d-xo.html and one on take treats softly th-cam.com/video/KXDWbtx44b8/w-d-xo.html
Victoria Kern can get him desensitised to treats by always having him on you in a treat pouch or putting them in a treat jar and sometimes move it without giving any to your dog
Any suggestions for how to discourage a puppy who bites to demand attention?
write a list of the scenarios in which it occurs and use management and prevention and train your dog what you do want him to do in those scenarios. If its when you sit down and ignore to work on a computer or watch tv or cook, practice settle on a mat on leash, when you have to work or do something put the puppy in a large pen with toys and chews so that he cant run up and bite you while you are not paying attention.
My dog was token away from her mom at 5 weeks and she bites way to much. I tried whimpering. I tried putting her in a different room. Tried treats NOTHING WORKS
Do you have any more tips on how to get a 9 week old puppy to settle down, it's go go go until we lock the crate on her and then she'll lay down in there
Dont use a crate, keep the puppy in a large pen with the crate inside, then the puppy can play in the pen and then choose to rest, then you can mark and reinforce those moments the puppy chooses to settle.
@@kikopup what if the puppy once in its pen wants nothing to do but get out?
That is one beautiful dog! What is he?
A border collie like my others
Thank you so much for your work... I’m trying so hard to put it into action. Just adopted a puppy and did not realize how intense it would be! I find it so hard to stay positive when my puppy bites at my ankle or jumps and bites at leg - or worse at my young daughter. If she is all riled up and I can’t seem to get her calm... is putting her in the crate a good choice? It feels like punishment but I can’t figure out how to calm her down especially in the evening. She’s wild! I have been doing the calm settle during the day and handling exercises like this one.
I suggest having a large pen where she can run around and when she starts getting mouthy, you can put her in the pen, and sit right next to the pen where she cant bite you, and try and get her interested in the toys in the pen, move them around make them make noises. I have a baby barrier across 1 part of my house, so I can have the puppy run around in 1 part and the older dogs not be bothered on the other side. You can do this with children. If you just got a puppy and they are mouthy.... it will take a few weeks for the puppy to learn not to do it to people because literally their whole life they have been doing it as a way to interact. So it will take time to fix. With not so mouthly puppies it can be gone in a week or two, but with more mouthy puppies it can take a 2-4 weeks to completely stop happening. If someone has gotten a puppy at 8 weeks and then the puppy is still mouthy at 16 weeks, that is extremely worrying and should become the number one concern to focus on.
@@kikopup Can I just say I am so excited that you responded to me🤗. THANK YOU!!! I will try to get this set up ASAP. My pup is 16 weeks old and we adopted her from animal control so I am sure it may take some time. I am a total newbie to this so your videos have been so important and we watch as a family on the daily... I know I am making all kinds of newbie mistakes but she does very well in the training sessions I have done... I won’t give up!!! Thank you for taking the time to respond🙏🏻.
@@kikopup My puppy is now 12 weeks. GSD. I have been using your methods but his mouthy behavior has got me at my wits end. He is not very food motivated and will chase chew toys as I play with him. But now at 12 weeks it is almost impossible to get his attention. I was letting him loose but always supervised to on our grass to potty but now have him on leash which he bits. I am trying to do your method and keep it all positive but I feel I am going to a bad place with him bitiing if I do not get it under control. If you can help please do. Thanks for the videos but none of it works for long with my puppy. I join your site and bought you puppy video but my puppy is not like any on you site. Again, Thanks
I know I really late to this video but when I try to make that noise my puppy gets even more riled up and bites my pants and grips on harder, what do I do
I suggest being neutral and just quickly putting him in his pen with his toys. If your puppy is the type that might scream and bark when put in a pen when acting like this, you could sit inches away from the pen calmly reading a book etc to prevent it being some stressful event. Then the important part is to work on calm stuff daily like these handling exercises and the settle. th-cam.com/video/yr1olzgidMw/w-d-xo.html
Drink a shot whenever she says "puppy"
Omg, I know. Sorry about that. You can play drinking games with my other videos. I tend to repeat some phrases too.
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@@shiromaniw3527 yes
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Our 18 year old got a puppy and all it wants to do is bite her. She wants to get rid of it already so I'm desperately trying to research to help break this habit.
The only time my Husky gets mouthy is when I’m trying to hold her still, put on or take of her collar/harness
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How do you train yourself not to say "No" to puppy when he mouths or bites at clothes. I get the idea of keeping pup calm & redirecting this behavior, but when he has the bottom of jeans in his mouth. What do you do? I LOVE your videos!!!
The most important part of the training is teaching the dog the behavior he should do and reinforcing it so it becomes strong. So if you screamed in shock most dogs won't notice so much if they are busy hanging off you or react very much at all. But obviously if you had a very sensitive dog that became scared of you, then you should be careful. I conditioned my dogs to not be scared when I get angry because I do get angry from time to time. When people let their loose dogs run at me sometimes I shout at the owner, and throw treats down for my own dogs. So now when I shout my dogs get super happy and anticipate their rewards.
My golden retriever puppy is overly excited and jumps up on me... And starts biting/playing with my slippers. How do i make him calm? Jaeger is 6 mos old and i got him just a week ago.. i know i have to be patient and since i dont have a cage or crate yet, im putting him on leash and tied up between my kitchen and dining...
Can you pls advise, i cant have him roam around the house coz he keeps on biting/chewing stuff.
Most likely he has spent his whole life chewing on stuff. So you will need to teach him as if he were an 8 week old puppy. Have a large pen to keep him in when you cant watch him that has stuff he can chew on like dog chews and then when loose make sure you are watching him 100% of the time.
@@kikopup thanks...
@@kikopup im guessing he also spent all the time in a cage previously, he is too excited coming out of the house
What do I do when my nine week old puppy is literally attacking me repeatedly and has no interest in toys? He gets in these moods where he really comes at me and I can’t stop him.
How is he now?
How do I make my puppy stop biting my other dogs? One takes up for herself but the other one doesn't. She just runs to me. I stop him but it's tiring. xD
Is it border collie?
Yes :)
My one year old shih tzu still do it. I don't know what to do, she is often agitated.
If the dog is not drawing blood or causing pain and its soft biting you can use the same games in this video. Obviously if your dog is actually biting you you'll need to hire a trainer to help you so you dont get bitten. Sometimes dogs mouth when feeling conflicted frustrated or excited. SO you have to know the situations it happens in and be prepared before hand to use management. You can also do training set ups where you teach your dog what you do want him to do in the situations he gets mouthy. here is a formula for solving unwanted behavior: th-cam.com/video/6vAk98000wc/w-d-xo.html
What will happen if I give my dog a lot of treats?
I suggest using part of his daily meal, if he likes his own food you can use those as treats if not use something small and healthy such as boiled chicken and other types of real meal. Rationing the treats per day and removing some of his food so he doesnt gain weight. If you feed a dog too much food they can gain weight as well as get diarrhea
He's already 5 months old wish I could've found your channel earlier
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I need whatever treats those are because mine ignores his :D
My puppy never bite, chewed, or anything. I also never let him put his mouth on me at all since I got him. I just gave him a toy. 🤷♀️
It depends on the puppy, my puppy Wish did not either.
What do you think about squealing ? Some people told me you should make a noise like a puppy would make when it’s hurt. But my dog just got more excited. I think I was a pretty convincing hurt dog, but he didn’t care.
I was fortunate to be able to foster two 8 week old puppies for several weeks and observe how they handle hard bites from one another. One would give a big yelp if bitten too hard, and it does not stop it would snap at the other puppy to get it to stop. Humans should just give out a stern loud NO to the puppy if bitten too hard, and if it continues just stop and give the puppy a time out by holding it's mouth firmly (but not enough to hurt it) and not letting it move for a few seconds and say no. Eventually, it will learn to inhibit it's bite.
That is so NOT my puppy! She's a little shark. My arms are in shreds. She has very little interest in his toys. 😣
I also have a wannabe shark! Have watched lots of videos but the puppies used to demonstrate are always calm and aren't behaving like mine.
The super-puppy is in da house again,yeah!!! But she tells only about having NO fun with the puppy. No laughing,no playing,no fun,mark"Good",like Gellmann?
SUCH PUPPY NEEDS TO BE LOVED;HAS FUN WIH;PLAY WITH. THERE IS NO NEED TO TRAIN SUCH PUPPYS,CAUSE WHY STOPPING LAUGHING WITH AND ABOUT THEM?
Once our puppy starts to bite his kennel from the outside, none of his toys interest him no matter how exciting you make them :(
I feel like mine won't be calm enough to get it to go after the toy instead of me. Mine never lays in front of me like that. She's also psychotic over food and will keep coming at me for more food instead of being calm. I can't seem to figure out how to get her to be calm. Or which video to watch first. All the videos so far are too advanced for her.
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Thank you for sharing, really appreciate your videos! We are getting a puppy in one week and are so excited! I'm wondering, what is your take on ABI, "acquired bite inhibition", as explained in this video? Is this a method you would recommend? th-cam.com/video/068K5Zlph9U/w-d-xo.html
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interesting points ,if anyone else wants to discover puppy training tips try Loctavan Quick Puppy Strategy (just google it ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my m8 got cool success with it.
My puppy growls....
It is normal for puppies to growl. If the puppy growls during this training exercise I suggest reducing criteria to where the puppy looks calm and relaxed during the training. You can try using higher value treats but if the puppy is suddenly very aroused, you can also put the puppy in his pen and then do the exercise when he is calmer.
Dog Training by Kikopup Okay! I was very worried, because we just solved all guarding problems and I was worried they were coming back!! But this video is helping with her nipping and she is the calmest, smartest most mischievous dog we could ask for now lol, thank you!!