[NAGDU] How to stop puppy biting and potty training

[Jody ianuzzi]

Usually if you get a puppy between eight and 10 weeks old they have already learned the lesson not to bite my playing with their littermates. When Walker would like to hard I would yelp like an injured puppy and crawl away. It didn't take long before he got the message. He has an extremely soft light now and can take my arm to lead me to his toy

JODY

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"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On Jan 21, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Tami Jarvis via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Emma,
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> I do a couple of things to inhibit play biting. When the puppy bites too hard, I make a big deal about how it hurts, saying "ow!" in a whiney, hurt voice and so on. It's a little silly, but the puppy clues in. As the puppy matures, like yours has, I'll begin to stop play when it gets nippy. Usually, just a brief pause, ignoring the playful one, then resuming in a calm way, will do the trick over time. If I've done brief pauses a time or two in a play session and the puppy just must use those teeth to have fun, I'll end play and maybe even give a bit of boring crate time. And so on.
> 
> For potty training, I just make sure to take the pup out at regular intervals and praise when it relieves outside. If I catch it in the act of going in the house, I hustle it outside to finish. If I don't catch it in the act, then oh, well. The thing about puppy bladders is that as they grow their schedule changes. About the time I start thinking we don't have to go out so often, then the puppy will need to go out more often, so mistakes happen. It should be about to click at 4 months that relieving happens outside, though you may not be totally out of accident territory. Oh, and it seems like during adolescence, they'll have accidents again. As near as I could tell with Loki, he would just forget to go outside because he was busy doing something else. As their brains grow and make new connections, sometimes the old ones get broken, so they just forget simple stuff.
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> hth,
> 
> Tami
> 
>> On 01/20/2018 09:49 PM, Emma Mitchell via NAGDU wrote:
>> Any one have ideas on how I can get Sansa to stop biting in play ?
>> IS there any advice on potty training.
>> She is now 4 months old.
>> Emma
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