German Shepherd Teeth Problems
german shepherd teeth problems
my german shepherd has a serious biting problem?
shes 9 weeks old, and she wont stop biting, her teeth are really sharp and its starting to hurt. ive tried yelling at her, tapping her on the nose, it dosent work she continutes to snap at me can someone tell me how to get her to stop doing this?
ps. she has toys and stuff to chew on but i try to give them to her and she wont take them and refuses to play with them
[Kathleen]:
Discover the developmental stages of dogs. A pup should be rehoused at 7-to-9 weeks old, while it is full of confidence & curiosity. Delaying it until 12 weeks means that the owner doesn’t have time to do all the familiarisations (movements, reflections, scents, sights, sounds, textures) & praising needed before the pup turns 13 weeks and begins the month-long “need security” stage.
[Jessica]:
Correction – your pup has an OWNER problem.
You have not yet focussed on her in order to LEARN her signals – the 2 most important being “Wanna go toilet” and “Wanna BITE something!”. That pair are SO important that they should be learned during the first day, and instant appropriate action taken on every occasion.
I hope you are already booked in to a training-club class (forget pet-shop play-groups) that will begin when Pup is 18-22 weeks old. There YOU will be coached to improve your use of “the voices”, posture aka body language, timing, balance, rewards vs reprimands. Until your instructor says otherwise, all your attempts at training are to be based on reward-reinforcement – NO HITTING!!!!!
You have less than 3 weeks left to convince Pup that the world is a fun, safe place and that you are the source of everything good in it. Achieve that, and Pup WANTS to please you.
Two weeks after her first vaccinations, take her to places where dogs do NOT roam free, do NOT piddle-poo-vomit. There let her explore “in all directions at once” at the end of a 2-3m/6-10ft leash, except when you need to pull her away from dangerous/disgusting things or scared people. If she wants to sit & think about a new thing, or even to hide behind you, LET her – and ignore her until SHE decides to ignore the new thing, or to investigate it.
When you see her “Wanna BITE!” signal, either:
• Prepare to catch her mouth in your hands and gently-but-firmly hold it closed until long after Pup is bored. While she’s held, give a basso throat rumble – a brood engulfs a naughty pup’s head; an uncle engulfs the head and rumbles. Sensible pups then decide to submit; the other kind don’t live any longer.
• Distract her with a gently bouncing ball or a knotted towel/rope – then praise her for playing.
If she latches on while you foolishly watched tv or some-such instead of concentrating on HER:
• Push her head gently-but-firmly against whatever she grabbed. Hold her there. Longer. Don’t release until long after she is thoroughly disgusted by the feel, smell & taste of whatever she grabbed.
• If the angle is too awkward, take the scruff of her neck and calmly lift until her front feet are off the ground. Bore her as above.
All 3 methods of boring her are to remove ALL the rewards she has been getting by biting. Do NOT squeal – high pitched noises are EXCITING to a puppy. Do NOT move your hand or leg away – that invokes the prey-catching instinct, inviting Pup to “catch me if you can” – GREAT FUN! (Plus moving can result in those “needles” slashing your skin.)
Expect her for a while (how long depends on how long she has been rewarding herself by biting) to think a moment when released, then come back for another attempt to get you to squeal & flap – use the opportunity to observe her body language leading up to charging in.
Toys: If YOU don’t spend time playing with them & being a tease, why should she play with them? In ther late v60s we took our bitches to an abandoned Softball ground for exercise & tra8ining. My Jena would, as soon as she decided that we were thinking of going home, hide her dumbbell in the lupins – she KNEW we weren’t cruel enough to deprive her of her beloved dumbbell fir long. And yep, regardless of how many days later before we returned, she went straight to her dumbbell then presented it me so that I could throw it for her.
• Add http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source to your browser’s Bookmarks or Favorites so that you can easily look up such as feeding, vaccinations, worming, clubs, weights, teething, neutering, disorders, genetics. You’ll find some basic canine body language in its Links => Temperament section.
• To ask about GSDs, join some of the 400+ YahooGroups dedicated to various aspects of living with GSDs – maybe 1 or 2 groups for each ancestral breed. Each group’s Home page tells you which aspects they like to discuss, and how active they are. Unlike YA, they are set up so that you can have an ongoing discussion with follow-up questions for clarification. Most allow you to include photos.
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
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