How would you best stop a puppy from biting and chewing people, things.?

Question

Bea is 4 months old and has plenty of chew toys but has bitten us and loves to chew on everything she can get her teeth on. She is a cocker spaniel.

Answer 1

I used a spray bottle with water on fine mist. After a few shots, she'll get the picture.

And say "NO" in a authoritative voice.

Answer 2

A firm NO and taking the item or hand away will be most effective. A little tap on the nose while telling her no is also OK. As soon as you take the item away you don't want her chewing on, give her something that she IS allowed to chew on. When you see her chewing on the proper items, give her lots of attention and praise.

There are also sprays you can buy to mist things with and make them taste bad to your puppy.

And last, but not least, puppy proof your home. Puppies are not only teething, but explore their world with their mouths. Don't leave out any $400 shoes for the puppy to eat.

Answer 3

She's teething, that's why she's chewing. She's at the age where her puppy teeth are beginning to loosen up and come out to make room for the adult teeth. They need to chew to help this happen. Make sure she has firm things to chew on like a Puppy Kong, bones, pig ears, etc. Anytime you see her chew, slap your hand with a newspaper or magazine near her then tell her a firm NO. It will take time but she'll get the hang of it. Have patience, she's still a baby and still learning.

Answer 4

Suggestion......put those rawhide chews all over the place.
Next.......two things. A squirt water bottle in the face is unsettlingn for the dog and will learn quick that the conquences aren't fun.
Another thing to do it a LOUD NOISE. My puppy loved the dumpster. I couldn't find a way to keep him from it. Then one day I kicked the metal door hard and that was the last time he went there. Infact he will avoid going that direction, If I have him on a leash he will refuse to walk by it. I don't make him walk by it, I don't want him to rediscover the place as a spot to find old junk food and garbage

He started to like to hide things behind a table. A hard pound on that table and he never went there again.

Answer 5

First 'provide up' the popping! do no longer use your hand to appropriate your canines, you're sending him blend alerts. at the same time as he does some thing incorrect use a small spray bottle and spray a touch of water in his face, they hate it. once you get a pup you should assume it to be a pup which means they're going to bite, bite, bark. once you spot him going for slightly of fixtures or some thing he's not any longer assume to do say 'no' and remove him and grants him a bone to bite. If he would not bite the bones you've given him it really is because you have not discovered the right bone yet, save searching for that particular bone he will like to bite. at the same time as he bites use the spray water besides and say 'no'. It takes an entire year to coach a pup. Your mom has to have extra endurance then this.

Answer 6

She's teething and it is very normal for puppies to chew on everything but the chew toys you get them...lol. When I had my GSD, she used to chew on the sofa, the dining chairs, everything! We had to spruce and shine up all of those when she got bigger and behaved better. If you want to distract your puppy, roll up a newspaper and whack it on your palm/hand to make a big noise and they will stop. At least for that time they will think it is a bad idea to chew because of all the big noise and they will do something else.

P.S. Love My Dog has almost the same answer but a better one that mine about getting them to understand 'NO'. Glad to know I had similar thoughts. Cheers!

Answer 7

Puppies chew and bite. They grow out of it but dog bones help. The pedegree bones that are hard in a yellow package helped my puppy. Good luck.

Answer 8

Pop her on her nose everytime she trys to bite someone, and tell her NO! when you do it. As far as the chewing is concerned, keep doors closed, confine her when you are gone and when she chews on something she not supposed to, tell her NO! and replace with a chew toy of her own, if that doesn't work, put her in a kennel everytime she does it, without a toy in it.

Answer 9

Well on furniture and things that are not human-get Bidder Apples,
it's a spray that will not harm the dog or your furniture. Puppies do not like the smell of it. Trust me it works, I did it on my golden.
When she tries to bite you or someone else, get a newspaper roll it up-smack your hand and say in a firm voice NO

Answer 10

you definitely don't want to encourage biting! trust me, we used to play all sorts of biting games with my dog when he was a puppy b/c we thought it was cute. but then he grew up thinking that biting was ok, and he turned very aggressive in certain situations. and he was only a poodle!

since then i have learned ways to deal with puppy biting. you have to totally ignore them when they bite. if your dog's biting you, fold your arms across your chest and completely ignore him. don't tell him "no" - don't say anything at all. totally ignore him. eventually he'll stop and learn that he needs to find a different way to get your attention.

another method i've heard is that every time your dog bites you, yelp really loudly. this is supposed to simulate your dogs siblings telling him that his biting hurts and he should stop! i don't know how well this method works though.