Thanks for the disclaimer at the start. You're one of these amazing amazing trainers who are taking steps towards uniting as a profession, regardless of techniques used.
I originally thought our puppy didn’t need to work on this but days 5-8 at home she’s getting increasingly more mouthy when playing and when restrained (lounging in the yard to leave the property etc) and actually bit my chin this morning with a little growl at that scene. It’s the second time and I can now see the pattern and will use management. We already worked on some grooming last night so accidentally did a bit of this and it worked well. She just let me hold her on the couch when snoozing and cuddle (with quick rewards). Thank you so much! The time length looked daunting but the compilation of training is so so good as a set!!!
I have a few friends who would really need to watch this video, so I will spread it for sure! i always allowed my puppy to play bite, but I'd make that loud yip sound that other pups do if he ever bit too hard, and if he wouldn't/wasn't in a headspace to respond to that, we'd go for a toy instead. But today he's soooo careful when play biting and hardly ever does it, which even other humans have told me that even when they rile him up, he's really excited, making fake-lunges and so on he's soooo gentle and if someone says "ow!" he immediately stops and licks the hand as if to apologize for being too harsh. When he was little I sort of combiined handling/being restrained training with putting a stop to the zoomies when he was over-stimulated. Basically do a little "struggle snuggle", where I'd stopp him from running around by inviting him to wrestle, and then start doing stuff like scratching his ears, pushing him over and giving his belly a scratch, and when he started coming back more to snuggle than to play fight I'd put him in my lap... Give it a couple of minutes and he'd be fast asleep!
I am really glad you emphasize not letting the pup practice unwanted behaviors. I too am grateful for Ian Dunbar's break-thru training. It is so important to be able to read the pup especially during restraint training. Calm baby steps.Great job, Emily! God Bless and keep you in His Tender Love, HUG ! JJ PS my cattle dog now is gentle-mouthed🐺💕🙏
Loved all this valuable information. I really like how you break it into simple steps otherwise it could be so overwhelming. I have a 3 month old puppy that always wants to bite everything. Any hand that goes to his face, head, paws or anywhere on him, his mouth is open and ready. It is puppy biting not anything harmful. I grew up with the Cesar Milan movement and it is so hard to not want to poke him at side with a “chitch” sound for unwanted behavior.
Malinois, Ridgeback, Australian Cattle Dog come to mind as breeds you might not want to go Dunbar's way if you don't have to. My Border Collie rescue had a hard mouth as well at 20 months when I got her; she had always been a working dog, never a pet, never lived in a house. I had to make it up as I went, so I played with tugs with her and got a few blue nails before she dialed it down. I also had to handle her body a lot while playing before she wouldn't try to get teeth on me while playing. She wasn't mean at all, it was all so new to her to control her bite. Now with my Ridgeback pup I include this handling of her body during full-throttle tug sessions to make sure he can be handled when aroused at this level of intensity.
Your videos are so good. I'll be getting a puppy at some point in the coming years, and I'm already watching your videos to study. They also make me less scared of "ruining" my future dog by making mistakes and not knowing what to do. So thank you. (Also, super cute frisbee scratching at 30:15 lol)
I used the Ian Dunbar method with my papillon when he was a pup - he was a horrible little land shark and it seems like the only way he knew how to interact was grabbing my skin and ragging or ripping at it. I spent weeks and weeks looking like something out of a horror movie with my hands covered in wounds! He genuinely had no idea that it wasn't fun for me and it took weeks of encouraging him to put his mouth on toys (plus saying "ow" in a very bored and unexciting voice ) for him to start connecting the dots that if he bit too hard I'd disengage. But he got it, and although I've never asked him to stop biting altogether he rarely uses teeth now in play with humans. Something I found was that if he was particularly bitey and finding it difficult to inhibit or focus on something else, there was almost always something going on with him that I needed to address. If he was hungry, or tired, or not quite awake yet, or overaroused/overwhelmed, or bored, he just couldn't think or learn anything until we'd taken care of that issue. By far the worst was if he needed to poop though. Even as an almost 3 year old adult I can tell that if he suddenly loses focus on a walk or during a training session outside, it's because poop is imminent.
Have you ever made a video working on the mouthing issue with adult dogs who never learned this as puppies. A lot of dogs coming out of shelters and rescues seem to have problems of getting easily aroused and then resorting to mouthing. Would love to have some guidance on how to set up training sessions to work on this issues aside from managing arousing situations.
You basically do the same exercises as the puppy tutorials, but I say to get help from a trainer because newbies can go too fast too quickly. I also have this collar grab video starring a mouthy husky th-cam.com/video/62NNwZtbtIA/w-d-xo.html
What I'm hearing is that you hate Ian Dunbar and think his way of training is dumb. 🤣 I'm making fun! That disclaimer was so long, it really cracked me up 😂
Excellent Video as always. Your Videos are just superb and always to the point. Love it! Funny that you upload this Video now as I was in the process of rewatching those Videos to refresh my memory, so I can set my 9 week old border collie up for success. What is your opinion on using Ian's method supplementary? As in, using it if things get too exciting and the puppy goes into mouthing mode? I am finding it somewhat difficult to guarantee biting does never happen and thus the unwanted behavior occasionally occurs.
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰. Loves each and every one of your videoes. Corresponds to the lessons er have in our classes, but for the new stuff, I sometimes forget about timing or is too ambitious.. then I find your videoes to refresh my memory ❤. Thank you 🙏🙏
I love your techniques, you are fab. Can ask what that purple lead/collar is please. My 6mnth king Charles has now started to play bite, i need to stop this asap x
If it only started now at 6 months and you had your dog since a puppy. It could be because of stress, frustration or over arousal, so I would try to figure out which situations it occurs in and then potentially work on settle on a mat in those situations. The handling and grooming video - th-cam.com/video/AoM9tis3t2c/w-d-xo.html I would definitely work on that at least 10 - 12 training sessions to start teaching the dog that hands on and procedures are calming. But if say you are standing doing something and your dog comes and starts biting your legs you will need to address what is making the dog do that. The leash and harness Im using are pretty regular, a v neck harness, also called a Y harness. But for a cavalier its pretty clunky because they dont make the buckles smaller for the smaller sizes.
@@kikopup Thank you so much! I think he gets excitedwhen he knows we are training. I need to find a way, so he doesnt get over eroused. Kind regards vanessa x
I have a question. I'm muzzle training my puppy for racing, so she wears it for a several minutes here and there every day. Is the muzzle helping, hindering or neutral for errorless bite inhibition training? She tries to bite me but can't with the muzzle on, so I'm not sure. In short, does attempting to bite reinforce biting humans or not? I don't want to accidentally make her worse by letting her snap at me inside of the muzzle.
Yeah, its like having a dog on leash near junk food on the ground, it doesnt teach them not to eat the food its just managing the situation, but if the dog is mouthing in the muzzle it could be reinforcing it. I would take a break and get the puppy to calm down if she starts getting mouthy in the muzzle.
I would love to see how you got your dog to stay calm laying down at 21:45 haha. The previous clip showed her not liking it. Is it just a matter of trying again when she's calmed down?
We are getting a new puppy in about 8 weeks time and I’ve been binging on your videos. Our very loved family dog recently died (at 9, from cancer) and although I thought we had done an ok job with her, I can see in reflection quite a few errors we made. My human job is as a psychologist and I really appreciate the very solid application of behavioural principles in all of your training videos. I really appreciate and admire the way you share your experience and your lovely calm dogs around you are another testament of this. Best wishes from New Zealand.
My poodle puppy is obsessed with hands and would love love love to be allowed to mouth them with great enthusiasm! He bites my elderly labradors legs too.
So what to do if you don't know any appropriate dogs? I'm of course taking my puppy to a puppy group class, but they don't have that much to play together. I know exactly one dog that might correct my puppy appropriately, but she also has arthritis, and I don't want to put that on her when she's already way smaller than my puppy(weight wise, they're about the same size in height, she's slightly longer). She's a senior dog, but still cool with playing with my puppy. But mine and her owner's schedule don't often match up.
I suggest that you teach the puppy to be calm around other dogs if you can't find one or youre worried the interactions will be bad for the puppy. You can do this by going places where the puppy is protected, by leash laws or have the pup in a stroller or bag and mark and feed for looking at dogs, then practice as I suggested with feeding treats of different value first when the puppy is calm and having a soft mouth then when the puppy is more excited. this video goes over how to teach taking treats softly th-cam.com/video/KXDWbtx44b8/w-d-xo.html
Hi my dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier and she’s 13 months old but she bites at my shoes or stuff for attention I always try to redirect to her toys but she grabs them and then she lets her toys down bc we’re not playing with her at that moment. We already have a cue like « it’s enough » to indicate that we’re not available to play but I don’t know if it’s enough:(
This tutorial th-cam.com/video/SrlwJRQlppY/w-d-xo.html Youll need to practice daily for 2-3 mins for two weeks before you see change. Basically the puppy has been most likely chomping on litter mates and objects their whole life - similar to how toddlers use hands, so its like teaching a baby not to touch specific things with their hands, it takes time, and its counterintuitive to them at first. The brain learns similarly to the way muscles are built. Two weeks of exercise and youll see a difference, trying to do a bunch of sit ups or push ups on one day, you wont see results. Its unfortunate as some puppies are harder than others. Puppies can be more chompy if you get them before 8 weeks, some states its illegal to get them before then. Some can be chompy because they have long coats so used to chomping on other dogs fluff, and some its because theyve been playing over excitedly and rough where they came from and in all situations its going to take some time to work on, in training sessions with a management and prevention plan inbetween
Love the message about avoiding rehearsal of behaviours we do not want to see and minimising errors in the learning process. Great job as always!
Thanks!
Thanks for the disclaimer at the start.
You're one of these amazing amazing trainers who are taking steps towards uniting as a profession, regardless of techniques used.
Redirection to toys and play has really helped. Aww Tug having back pain. Hope he is all good now.
I originally thought our puppy didn’t need to work on this but days 5-8 at home she’s getting increasingly more mouthy when playing and when restrained (lounging in the yard to leave the property etc) and actually bit my chin this morning with a little growl at that scene. It’s the second time and I can now see the pattern and will use management. We already worked on some grooming last night so accidentally did a bit of this and it worked well. She just let me hold her on the couch when snoozing and cuddle (with quick rewards). Thank you so much! The time length looked daunting but the compilation of training is so so good as a set!!!
I have a few friends who would really need to watch this video, so I will spread it for sure!
i always allowed my puppy to play bite, but I'd make that loud yip sound that other pups do if he ever bit too hard, and if he wouldn't/wasn't in a headspace to respond to that, we'd go for a toy instead. But today he's soooo careful when play biting and hardly ever does it, which even other humans have told me that even when they rile him up, he's really excited, making fake-lunges and so on he's soooo gentle and if someone says "ow!" he immediately stops and licks the hand as if to apologize for being too harsh.
When he was little I sort of combiined handling/being restrained training with putting a stop to the zoomies when he was over-stimulated. Basically do a little "struggle snuggle", where I'd stopp him from running around by inviting him to wrestle, and then start doing stuff like scratching his ears, pushing him over and giving his belly a scratch, and when he started coming back more to snuggle than to play fight I'd put him in my lap... Give it a couple of minutes and he'd be fast asleep!
I am really glad you emphasize not letting the pup practice unwanted behaviors. I too am grateful for Ian Dunbar's break-thru training. It is so important to be able to read the pup especially during restraint training. Calm baby steps.Great job, Emily! God Bless and keep you in His Tender Love, HUG ! JJ
PS my cattle dog now is gentle-mouthed🐺💕🙏
Loved all this valuable information. I really like how you break it into simple steps otherwise it could be so overwhelming. I have a 3 month old puppy that always wants to bite everything. Any hand that goes to his face, head, paws or anywhere on him, his mouth is open and ready. It is puppy biting not anything harmful. I grew up with the Cesar Milan movement and it is so hard to not want to poke him at side with a “chitch” sound for unwanted behavior.
I love Emily's explanations.
Thanks 🙏
Malinois, Ridgeback, Australian Cattle Dog come to mind as breeds you might not want to go Dunbar's way if you don't have to. My Border Collie rescue had a hard mouth as well at 20 months when I got her; she had always been a working dog, never a pet, never lived in a house. I had to make it up as I went, so I played with tugs with her and got a few blue nails before she dialed it down. I also had to handle her body a lot while playing before she wouldn't try to get teeth on me while playing. She wasn't mean at all, it was all so new to her to control her bite. Now with my Ridgeback pup I include this handling of her body during full-throttle tug sessions to make sure he can be handled when aroused at this level of intensity.
Your videos are so good. I'll be getting a puppy at some point in the coming years, and I'm already watching your videos to study. They also make me less scared of "ruining" my future dog by making mistakes and not knowing what to do. So thank you. (Also, super cute frisbee scratching at 30:15 lol)
I used the Ian Dunbar method with my papillon when he was a pup - he was a horrible little land shark and it seems like the only way he knew how to interact was grabbing my skin and ragging or ripping at it. I spent weeks and weeks looking like something out of a horror movie with my hands covered in wounds!
He genuinely had no idea that it wasn't fun for me and it took weeks of encouraging him to put his mouth on toys (plus saying "ow" in a very bored and unexciting voice ) for him to start connecting the dots that if he bit too hard I'd disengage. But he got it, and although I've never asked him to stop biting altogether he rarely uses teeth now in play with humans.
Something I found was that if he was particularly bitey and finding it difficult to inhibit or focus on something else, there was almost always something going on with him that I needed to address. If he was hungry, or tired, or not quite awake yet, or overaroused/overwhelmed, or bored, he just couldn't think or learn anything until we'd taken care of that issue. By far the worst was if he needed to poop though. Even as an almost 3 year old adult I can tell that if he suddenly loses focus on a walk or during a training session outside, it's because poop is imminent.
Have you ever made a video working on the mouthing issue with adult dogs who never learned this as puppies. A lot of dogs coming out of shelters and rescues seem to have problems of getting easily aroused and then resorting to mouthing. Would love to have some guidance on how to set up training sessions to work on this issues aside from managing arousing situations.
You basically do the same exercises as the puppy tutorials, but I say to get help from a trainer because newbies can go too fast too quickly. I also have this collar grab video starring a mouthy husky th-cam.com/video/62NNwZtbtIA/w-d-xo.html
Love your videos Emily. I've learned so much from you over the years. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment!
@@kikopup 😀
Love your videos, my personal trainer advised me to watch your videos.
What is your lead in this video please xx
Thanks so much! This is really helpfu!
What I'm hearing is that you hate Ian Dunbar and think his way of training is dumb.
🤣 I'm making fun! That disclaimer was so long, it really cracked me up 😂
I love Ian Dunbar
Excellent Video as always. Your Videos are just superb and always to the point. Love it!
Funny that you upload this Video now as I was in the process of rewatching those Videos to refresh my memory, so I can set my 9 week old border collie up for success.
What is your opinion on using Ian's method supplementary? As in, using it if things get too exciting and the puppy goes into mouthing mode?
I am finding it somewhat difficult to guarantee biting does never happen and thus the unwanted behavior occasionally occurs.
Yeah when you find your hand in the puppies mouth unexpectedly hehe.
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰. Loves each and every one of your videoes. Corresponds to the lessons er have in our classes, but for the new stuff, I sometimes forget about timing or is too ambitious.. then I find your videoes to refresh my memory ❤. Thank you 🙏🙏
Great information! Thanks so much!
Great video as always
I love your techniques, you are fab.
Can ask what that purple lead/collar is please.
My 6mnth king Charles has now started to play bite, i need to stop this asap x
If it only started now at 6 months and you had your dog since a puppy. It could be because of stress, frustration or over arousal, so I would try to figure out which situations it occurs in and then potentially work on settle on a mat in those situations. The handling and grooming video - th-cam.com/video/AoM9tis3t2c/w-d-xo.html I would definitely work on that at least 10 - 12 training sessions to start teaching the dog that hands on and procedures are calming. But if say you are standing doing something and your dog comes and starts biting your legs you will need to address what is making the dog do that. The leash and harness Im using are pretty regular, a v neck harness, also called a Y harness. But for a cavalier its pretty clunky because they dont make the buckles smaller for the smaller sizes.
@@kikopup Thank you so much!
I think he gets excitedwhen he knows we are training. I need to find a way, so he doesnt get over eroused.
Kind regards vanessa x
Thank you for making this great video and topic. 100% agree!
You are a lifesaver.
I have a question. I'm muzzle training my puppy for racing, so she wears it for a several minutes here and there every day. Is the muzzle helping, hindering or neutral for errorless bite inhibition training? She tries to bite me but can't with the muzzle on, so I'm not sure. In short, does attempting to bite reinforce biting humans or not? I don't want to accidentally make her worse by letting her snap at me inside of the muzzle.
Yeah, its like having a dog on leash near junk food on the ground, it doesnt teach them not to eat the food its just managing the situation, but if the dog is mouthing in the muzzle it could be reinforcing it. I would take a break and get the puppy to calm down if she starts getting mouthy in the muzzle.
@@kikopup thanks so much! I will do that.
I could do wit your help for my belgian malinois so many trainers have turned me away because of his behavior i can't even take him for a walk :(
I would love to see how you got your dog to stay calm laying down at 21:45 haha. The previous clip showed her not liking it. Is it just a matter of trying again when she's calmed down?
Thank you!
We are getting a new puppy in about 8 weeks time and I’ve been binging on your videos. Our very loved family dog recently died (at 9, from cancer) and although I thought we had done an ok job with her, I can see in reflection quite a few errors we made. My human job is as a psychologist and I really appreciate the very solid application of behavioural principles in all of your training videos. I really appreciate and admire the way you share your experience and your lovely calm dogs around you are another testament of this. Best wishes from New Zealand.
How do you survive waiting for 8 weeks!? Haha. We're about 3 days away from getting ours and the suspense is killing me.
My poodle puppy is obsessed with hands and would love love love to be allowed to mouth them with great enthusiasm! He bites my elderly labradors legs too.
Awe. Maybe get him a fluffy toy thats all legs and hands hehe.
So what to do if you don't know any appropriate dogs? I'm of course taking my puppy to a puppy group class, but they don't have that much to play together. I know exactly one dog that might correct my puppy appropriately, but she also has arthritis, and I don't want to put that on her when she's already way smaller than my puppy(weight wise, they're about the same size in height, she's slightly longer). She's a senior dog, but still cool with playing with my puppy. But mine and her owner's schedule don't often match up.
I suggest that you teach the puppy to be calm around other dogs if you can't find one or youre worried the interactions will be bad for the puppy. You can do this by going places where the puppy is protected, by leash laws or have the pup in a stroller or bag and mark and feed for looking at dogs, then practice as I suggested with feeding treats of different value first when the puppy is calm and having a soft mouth then when the puppy is more excited. this video goes over how to teach taking treats softly th-cam.com/video/KXDWbtx44b8/w-d-xo.html
Hi my dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier and she’s 13 months old but she bites at my shoes or stuff for attention
I always try to redirect to her toys but she grabs them and then she lets her toys down bc we’re not playing with her at that moment.
We already have a cue like « it’s enough » to indicate that we’re not available to play but I don’t know if it’s enough:(
You could also train a leave it cue th-cam.com/video/6jYfKK17ZBs/w-d-xo.html
@@kikopup thank u, love ur content:)
This isn't helping. My puppy is a nightmare when she gets playful. How do you fix it if the puppy is already super chompy.
This tutorial th-cam.com/video/SrlwJRQlppY/w-d-xo.html Youll need to practice daily for 2-3 mins for two weeks before you see change. Basically the puppy has been most likely chomping on litter mates and objects their whole life - similar to how toddlers use hands, so its like teaching a baby not to touch specific things with their hands, it takes time, and its counterintuitive to them at first. The brain learns similarly to the way muscles are built. Two weeks of exercise and youll see a difference, trying to do a bunch of sit ups or push ups on one day, you wont see results. Its unfortunate as some puppies are harder than others. Puppies can be more chompy if you get them before 8 weeks, some states its illegal to get them before then. Some can be chompy because they have long coats so used to chomping on other dogs fluff, and some its because theyve been playing over excitedly and rough where they came from and in all situations its going to take some time to work on, in training sessions with a management and prevention plan inbetween
What about teaching puppies to not bite kids when playing with them
Thanks for debunking!
I hope you don't mind using this word'.
It was a red flag for me to see a video of my potential puppy who was being allowed to bite and mouth the breeders hands. Yikes.