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March 31st, 2009 by PetGuru

There are many obstacles and challenges for dog owners, particularly when it comes to owning puppies and the typical aggressive puppy biting behaviour. This article can assist with this problem and its resolution in as nice a way as possible. Puppy biting normally initiates when playing with your puppy and eventually becomes a habit, at times without your knowledge as to how the habit started.

You may ask, “How to stop a puppy from biting?” The answer is held in correcting the behaviour before it becomes a habit. The biting stage in puppies is a natural stage due to the fact that they are teething. During this time they will bite into most items including human flesh. They are still learning right and wrong at this time and need to be led in the right direction. This can be a heavy task but to avoid the development of bad habits like biting needs to be done.

How to stop puppy from biting is a fairly simple training exercise to employ. This is better accomplished early in the development of the puppy and will make all remaining training easier to complete.

At the puppy stage most puppies bite but in order to correct this behaviour the puppy must see that its owner is serious and stern about correcting this bad habit, no matter which method of dog training is used.

Correcting the problem of puppy biting is often done with the favorite technique used by many trainers known as guilt therapy. This is where the puppy is made to believe that they are causing pain when they bite a human. This builds on the natural behaviour of puppies where when they play together they engage in biting but this stops once a yelp of pain is heard. Humans can take advance of this natural learning and make the puppy believe – with some good acting – that they have caused pain. Coupling this with the withdrawal of affection and play for a short time will fast teach the puppy that biting is not acceptable.

Identification of the puppy biting growling problem should be done as early as possible in the puppies life as at this stage the behaviour is easier to correct.

The technique of redirection is another method that can be utilized when dealing with puppy play biting. This is where when you are bitten you say a serious “”No!”" and move the attention of the puppy to another object such as from your hands to a bone or even a chew toy. Once the puppy is still young this may be all the correction that they require to end this problem.

Outlined here are just a few of the training steps that you can employ to stop biting puppies. When used we hope they significantly change the behaviour of your puppy and halt the biting (stop puppy biting quickly).

If more assistance is required to stop a puppy from biting then check the website DogTrainingCompare and go to the Dog Training and Obedience section.

In order to make puppy stop biting you may need more training resources and one area to check is the Dog Training Product Industry Reports.