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– Hi Brian, Comments hereunder:
> Help!!!!!!! > I have a great GSD 12 week old puppy that loves everyone.. has already > been better socialized then most dogs I have ever met, and listens > fairly well ( in most cases) But!!!! He loves Using me, or my wife, as > his play toy. I hav distracted, distracted, and distracted some more. He > has plenty of toys which he will play with, but after a few moments, its > back to us??? This is definately not Aggressive attacks… only playful, > but his teeth are like razors…..My training has been all very soft, > taking advantage of his own natural abilities, such as: hav trained Sit, > Down, crawl, stand, (as well as a puppy can) without ever using a hand > to push or guide him. I do not want any hand shyness. Please, any help > would be absolutely great…….
Teaching Puppies to be gentle on your flesh Hold some food, clench in right hand. Hold clenched hand to puppy, command ‘Gently’ (Normal tone) If dog tries to bite, command ‘Gently.’ Firmly, but ‘not’ aggressively, And withdraw hand. Repeat this until dog starts licking hand, then praise – in a slow calming tone, at same time slowly opening hand. If dog grabs at food start again (clenching hand etc). When dog is completely ‘nice’ then allow dog to ’slowly’ and gently take food. Loads of praise – end of exercise. Regards, Marilyn Rammell www.angelfire.com/mb/dogtraining/homepage.html – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> — > Thanks, > Brian McCracken > 705-737-0011 1-800-367-2037 > http://toronto.planeteer.com/~bmcraken/ > Selling Barrie, One Home at a Time
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> Help!!!!!!! > I have a great GSD 12 week old puppy that loves everyone.. has already > been better socialized then most dogs I have ever met, and listens > fairly well ( in most cases) But!!!! He loves Using me, or my wife, as > his play toy. I hav distracted, distracted, and distracted some more.
Try laying porno magazines all over your living room and see if that distracts your puppy enough to get him to learn not to chew on you? Look, the proponents of "distraction" are the proponents of "morondom." They would rather "distract" the puppy than "teach" the puppy anything. We are in the midst of the Great Dumbing Down of the puppies and owners of America (or Canada, in your case). What you want to do, is pretty simple. You simply want to "teach" the puppy that biting is OK, but that biting your flesh isn’t OK. That’s all you have to do. It’s one of the simplest, yet least understood issues in all the dog game. The video below is pretty bad by my standards, but hey, it’s free and it’s better than anything on the net, hands down, and it will get you started on the right track. You’re not teaching the "no bite" you’re teaching the "bite" combined with the "dont’ bite my finger" and the contrast of these lessons taught simultaneously is what makes a crystal clear light go off in the dog’s mind. Right now, you are addled, dazed and have been righteously confused by conflicting versions of gibberish which have been issued from several varieties of Schools of Misthought in the Dog Game proper. This is not your fault. You can get better. > He > has plenty of toys which he will play with, but after a few moments, its > back to us??? This is definately not Aggressive attacks… only playful, > but his teeth are like razors…..My training has been all very soft,
That’s great, and if you want to be "all very soft" you are probably going to spend a lot of time asking for help on newsgroups. Did you ever have a cat? How did the cat teach you what was appropriate petting? Cats like certain kinds of petting, but they don’t like other kinds of petting. Many cats love to have their backs and necks scratched, but if you try to scratch their stomachs too hastily, they might teach you a lesson with their claws about what kind of petting they find acceptable. Unlike many babbling dog trainers, Cats clearly aren’t dummies. NATURE IS NEVER WRONG -ROUSSEAU Cats are excellent people trainers. They are also excellent puppy trainers. They train puppies not to bite them, and they use a decidedly non soft approach consisting of rapid repetitions involving bi-directional swatting, batting and buffeting about the snouts of inadvisably advancing puppies, combined with exacerbated hissing and threat displays toward the onslaught of a needle teeth rascal who is "just playing." "Just Playing, Yeah, Right!" says the big ol’ cat. "You wanna play mofo, let’s play! take one more step and I’ll rip your cute little puppy snout into confetti, bitch!" If you’ve ever noticed, most cats aren’t addled, dazed or confused. When cats train humans, they use about a 60/40 mix of soft/hard training, and sometimes they scratch us even when we are behaving and being very good. Several leading Cats have been interviewed by Psychologists about this behavior and they seem to contend simply, that sometimes it is just their whim to inflict pain needlessly on the innocent, simply because it pleases them. Now, to train your puppy not to bite you, you don’t have to scratch their nose or slap them or stick your finger down their throat. In fact, below you will see a method which simply involves training the puppy to think about what it is doing with its mouth. And what’s great about this method, is it is killing two birds with one stone….at the same time it is dealing with biting, it is dealing with the "possession" a much more important issue, especially for adult dogs. The no bite is about trust more than anything. You want to be able to trust that your dog is never going to hurt you, and you want your dog to be able to trust that you are never going to hurt her or him. http://dogtv.com/CallieBite2.ram I can stick my finger in the mouth of my gleefully chomping dog and she’ll stop instantly. When I say this is an "intuitive" process, it’s because it is just that. Intuitive is what the best teaching is. Instead of having silly rules in your head, you simply intuitively teach the dog and use the situation and the circumstances to your advantage. There will be people who will tell you to "NEVER" do this or "NEVER" do that. They are usually the people who NEVER train dogs very well and NEVER want to show anybody else how they do it. That’s all. Good luck Michael Live >From the SuperDog Station
See Hope Learning the False Positives http://dogtv.com/HopeFalsePosLQ.ram – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> taking advantage of his own natural abilities, such as: hav trained Sit, > Down, crawl, stand, (as well as a puppy can) without ever using a hand > to push or guide him. I do not want any hand shyness. Please, any help > would be absolutely great……. > — > Thanks, > Brian McCracken > 705-737-0011 1-800-367-2037 > http://toronto.planeteer.com/~bmcraken/ > Selling Barrie, One Home at a Time
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>Help!!!!!!! >I have a great GSD 12 week old puppy that loves everyone.. has already >been better socialized then most dogs I have ever met, and listens >fairly well ( in most cases) But!!!! He loves Using me, or my wife, as >his play toy. I hav distracted, distracted, and distracted some more. He >has plenty of toys which he will play with, but after a few moments, its >back to us???
This is normal. Keep distracting him with toys…leading him towards the right stuff to chew on and when he gets you I suggest you YIPE! Loudly, just like his littermates would do. He’ll understand that. It’s also OK to hold his muzzle and tell him NO when he gets too rambunctious. He’s teething. It’s a phase. Just make it clear that he’s not supposed to do it. — -Andrea Stone Saorsa Basenjis http://www.premier1.net/~saorsa
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Puppy Biting If you watch a litter of puppies playing, you will notice that they spend much of their time biting and grabbing each other with their mouths. This is normal puppy behavior. When you take a puppy from the litter and into your home, the puppy will play bite and mouth you. This is normal behavior, but needs to be modified so you and the puppy will be happy. The first thing to teach your new puppy is that human flesh is much more sensitive than other puppies and that it really hurts us when they bite. This is called bite inhibition. A puppy has very sharp teeth and a weak jaw. This means that the puppy can cause you to be uncomfortable when mouthing or puppy biting you, but can not cause severe damage. An adult dog has duller teeth and a powerful jaw. This means that an adult dog can cause significant damage when biting. ANY DOG WILL BITE GIVEN THE RIGHT OR WRONG CIRCUMSTANCES ! If a small child falls on your adult dog and sticks a finger in the dog’s eye, you should not be surprised if the dog bites. If you do a good job teaching your puppy bite inhibition, you should get a grab and release without damage. If you don’t, you may get a hard bite with significant damage. It is simple to teach a puppy bite inhibition. Every time the puppy touchs you with its teeth, say "OUCH!" in a harsh tone of voice. This will probably not stop the puppy from mouthing, but over time should result in softer and gentler puppy biting. [A note by consensus of RPDB regulars, as stated by Avrama Gingold: "Even quicker and often much more effective is, if the puppy nips you with its needle-sharp teeth while playing, simply screech OWWW in a high pitched voice and stop playing. That is exactly what his littermates would do."] The commands necessary to teach a puppy NOT to mouth, are easy and fun. Hold a small handful of the puppy’s dry food, say "take it" in a sweet tone of voice, and give the puppy one piece of food. Then close the rest of the food in your hand and say "off" in that same sweet tone of voice. When the puppy has not touched your hand for 3 to 5 seconds, say "take it" and give the puppy one piece of food. We are teaching the puppy that "off" means not to touch. You should do this with the puppy before every meal for at least 5 minutes. After a couple of weeks of the above training, here is how you are going to handle puppy biting or mouthing: Unexpected mouthing (you don’t know the puppy is going to mouth, until you feel the puppy’s teeth): "OUCH!" [in a high pitched voice] Expected mouthing (you see the puppy getting ready to mouth you): You say "OFF" before the puppy can mouth you. The puppy is mouthing you because of a desire to play. You have to answer the question, "Do I have time to play with the puppy now ?" If you do, then do "sit", "down", "stand" or other positive ‘lure and reward’ training. If they answer is "No, I don’t have time for the puppy, right now." then you need to do a time out (crate, or otherwise confine the puppy, so the puppy can’t continue to mouth you and get in trouble. The above training methods have been modified from information that I learned from Dr Ian Dunbar in his puppy training seminars and from his excellent video ‘Sirius Puppy Training’ which is available by calling 510-658-8588.
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Help!!!!!!! I have a great GSD 12 week old puppy that loves everyone.. has already been better socialized then most dogs I have ever met, and listens fairly well ( in most cases) But!!!! He loves Using me, or my wife, as his play toy. I hav distracted, distracted, and distracted some more. He has plenty of toys which he will play with, but after a few moments, its back to us??? This is definately not Aggressive attacks… only playful, but his teeth are like razors…..My training has been all very soft, taking advantage of his own natural abilities, such as: hav trained Sit, Down, crawl, stand, (as well as a puppy can) without ever using a hand to push or guide him. I do not want any hand shyness. Please, any help would be absolutely great……. — Thanks, Brian McCracken 705-737-0011 1-800-367-2037 http://toronto.planeteer.com/~bmcraken/ Selling Barrie, One Home at a Time
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Howdy Brian, First, congrats on your choice of dog! (I am owned by three fabulous female GSDs). We are currently fostering a 4 month old pup for local GSD rescue and we feel your pain (quite literally!) We ‘yipe’ like a puppy when she bites us and that usually stops her. I also take her to all of my neighbors who have young dogs that still like to play rough and wrestle. This helps a lot by letting her expend huge amounts of energy that would otherwise be directed toward us. I also have plenty of toys strewn about so that I can easily grab one and offer it to her in place of something she shouldn’t be chewing (like me or the couch!) Keep up the socialization – it will really pay off in the long run. If you are looking for a training book, I recommend "The Art of Raising a Puppy" by the Monks of New Skete – my fave book for rearing a GSD pup. Good luck with your little one. Lea
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