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Do you have a pup that bites? Then it is time you took measures to stop a puppy from biting. There is great threat in allowing it to continue, just because you feel it is only nipping. Playful nipping will eventually, turn into serious and dangerous biting.

No dog owner should have a puppy that may harm children, the guests or anyone that may come to their home. If your puppy has a biting problem then there are ways to stop a dog from biting. Not rectifying the problem of your dog biting will certainly end up with both, your dog, and you in serious trouble. If your puppy is apt to bite and manages to get out alone, it can bite a child or even an adult passing on the street, and if the bite causes bad wounds your dog could be put down as a unsafe animal, and you end up being taken to court. In order to stop such things happening to your friends, you and your doggy, the only thing to do is to learn how to stop puppies from biting.

Biting is problematic behavior pattern in dogs and is best addressed when the dog is just a pup. All dogs love to chew, so the first thing to have is an adequate supply of chew toys around. This helps a long way into stopping a puppy trying to mouth anything and everything it can place its fangs around, because mouthing is the beginning of all biting problems. If your pup was long enough with its mother it would have been taught by its mother, and litter mates, how to hold back its biting urges and tendencies. If a puppy bites its mother, the mother will yell. The puppy is confounded and concerned at the reaction, and when he bites her the second time his mother would screech louder and even growl at the puppy as she turns away from him, shunning the biting puppy. This is how puppies get the message that they cannot use that pressure with their jaws and teeth, and if the puppy bites the mother the third time his mother will turn on him harshly. So the puppy gets to know from its mother and siblings in the social pack that biting is not an acceptable behavior.

Since we have detached the puppy from this inherited training atmosphere, we have do the same thing its mother does to stop the doggy biting. The approach us humans could employ to implement this training would be to howl in a high-pitched voice every time the doggy tries to hold with its mouth or bite any part of our body or even clothing. A little bit of embellishment would help to get the point across. If the nipping continues, start disregarding the puppy after the 'yelp' and refuse to play with it. The dog will soon realize that biting leads to all the fun and affection being stopped, and will realize that forceful nipping is not allowable behavior pattern.

Another method to stop pup from mouthing is to use a muzzle. It may sound a bit cruel or extreme, but it is not. A muzzle will not harm the puppy in any way. It just prevents it from opening its gob wide enough to bite anything. The dog will soon figure out why the muzzle is on and will learn. Every pet owner must never forget, that, a dog that bites, is one of the most severe dog problems, which any mutt owner could be plagued with. Play biting can lead to real serious biting and steps to inhibit dog from biting must be taken before the unthinkable happens.