My naughty puppy?

Question

She is 12 weeks and has a mind of her own. never listens and tries to eat and bite everything. I try to tell her in a calm voice it never works so then i make my voice a bit louder. She loves to chew on wire and plastic so i have to always keep things like that away from her. what should i do?????????????????????? help

Answer 1

I have a loose rock/gravel combo walk from my gazebo to the garage.My Staffie used to pick up golf ball size rocks and chew on them..well I could not allow this so I got very good at opening her mouth and finding them where she would hide them in her jaw.
She was only six months old at the time and my vet said she was trying to cut her adult teeth.
Get your pup some hard rubber toys small enough to get all the way in the mouth but too big to swallow.
When I did this the rock chewing stopped with my pup.
She sniffs them once in awhile but she doesn't pick them up.

Answer 2

Sounds like a pretty normal puppy :) Some are more intense than others.

The biting is really frustrating, a calm voice doesn't teach her anything, her Mother wouldn't calmly ask her not to bite, she would growl or even nip at the puppy.

There are a number of ways you can deal with the biting, you can start at the softer methods and work your way up depending on how much of a brat your puppy is....be prepared to use harder methods even though you don't want to, you need to be this dogs leader and that means you need to dicipline the dog as well....I of course don't mean by beating the dog because that achieves nothing but fear.

1) Give a low basey Growl....men are much better at this than woman....practice....growl like you really mean it.
2) Walk away and ignore the puppy for 20 minutes.....granted the puppy won't chase after you and try and bite you.
3) Tap the puppy on the nose in a firm manner and growl NOOOOO....don't yell though.
4) Put the puppy outside for a 2 minute time out everytime it mouths you, nips you or bites you....you'll feel like you're doing it every 2 minutes but they get it in the end.
5) You can wrap the dogs lips over its' teeth so it's effectively biting itself.
6) Use a water pistol, but try not to let the puppy see the water pistol otherwise it will only obey you when it sees the water pistol.

As for the chewing plastic and wire....puppies love to chew so you need to watch your puppy like a hawk, anytime you see puppy going to chew something it shouldn't you give a FIRM No and then give the puppy something it is allowed to chew and then PRAISE the dog. Very important that every repremand is followed up with praise so that the puppy learns what is good and what is bad.

Many Puppies loves apples when they're teething, you may like to give it a try :)

Answer 3

You didn't mention the breed. Some dogs have a mind of their own due to heredity, such as hounds, which were bred to hunt independently.

Excessive chewing can be a sign of boredom, and could be due to insufficient exercise, as in a large working dog, retriever or hound that isn't getting a solid hour or more of play every day. Be careful of "solutions" such as cloth toys, if you don't address the root cause of the chewing you're going to create an aggressive chewer with a taste for textiles, which will be unacceptable when the dog snacks on your jacket or bedding as an adult. I'd suggest finding out more about the breed (or each breed in a mix) of your dog and what it's basic temperament and exercise requirements are, then work to try to meet them.

Sounds like you're on the right track with keeping things away from the pup. You also have to firmly communicate that indiscriminate chewing is not acceptable, every time that it chews something other than it's own toys. Raising your voice may work for now, but you need to learn to speak quietly and effectively to the dog. You have to assert yourself and establish dominance while the pup is still young, and there are any number of training programs and videos to help you do that.

Good luck.

Answer 4

One time, not long after i got my pup, me and my boyfriend were watching t.v. or playing video games or something.. Well Roxy was laying on the bed behind us sleeping... or at least we thought she was until we reailzed the bed was shaking a bit so we turned around and she had been tearing a hole in the corner of one of my pillows. This pillow just happened to be filled with a trillion little quarter-sized pieces of orange foam and now, they were ALL over the bed. SO much you couldn't even see the sheets underneath anymore. Another time, she somehow ninja'd her way out of her kennel while we were at work and nearly chewed though the entire Xbox power cord. She's destroyed numerous plushie toys and even tennis balls. At our last apartment, she would chew through the bottom bars of her kennel and eat the carpet. Thats probably the only ones that i can think of right now.. Shes pretty good about everything now.

Answer 5

Just keep doing what you are doing. Keep things away from her that she can chew on, and buy her lots of different things to chew on. Rubber toys, those rag toys things like that, distract her with those things so she knows what she is allowed to chew on and what she's not. If she's a lab breed, they like to gnaw and chew well on into adult hood and usually like having something around to chew.

Answer 6

hmm hide plastic adn stuff get her like the kongs the chew toys that are supposed to be super tough. just make sure you dont leave pop bottles or anythin like that around my doberman loves to get those he will even steal them out of your hand

Answer 7

even our dog did the same................its normal ............her teeth are new so she will be chewing things..............give her chewable toys which are easily available in the market.......this will go on for a month or 2..............dont worry.....lolz

Answer 8

kick the dog squar in the ****!...not litteraly but give italittle smack.

Answer 9

you too join her and start chewing on wire and plastic.