We have a 7 year old female bully and also a 13 week old little male bully. The problem we are having is the little man keeps trying to bit the female on her wrinkles. I know a lot of this is the puppy play but I am getting concerned she is growing to dis like him. She does correct him when she has had enough. Any advice? He loves to test his puppy teeth on our 9 and 10 year old as well. He is by no means biting out of aggression but being a pistol. We tell him "no" and correct and I just put him time out in his crate for doing this. Any others have input?
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HEY POLLYANNA ! ! ! tell them about OLIVE's Puppy Teeth!
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Oh dear lord! LOL
Lots of experience with this! PollyAnna is our 6 year old female and Olive is our 6 month old puppy. Poor PollyAnnas lips took a beating and so did our hands, feet, and any other body part that was in her reach! Fortunately he will out grow this as well as the needle teeth. Olive still is mouthy but not as bad as she was. When the older dog gets tired put the puppy in time out in the crate. As for the hand chewing keep nylabones handy. When she bites you say no and trade it for a nylabones.I assure you that it is a part of being a puppy and they do grow out of it. Just have patience and a lot of bandages..
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Oh dear lord! LOL
Lots of experience with this! PollyAnna is our 6 year old female and Olive is our 6 month old puppy. Poor PollyAnnas lips took a beating and so did our hands, feet, and any other body part that was in her reach! Fortunately he will out grow this as well as the needle teeth. Olive still is mouthy but not as bad as she was. When the older dog gets tired put the puppy in time out in the crate. As for the hand chewing keep nylabones handy. When she bites you say no and trade it for a nylabones.I assure you that it is a part of being a puppy and they do grow out of it. Just have patience and a lot of bandages..
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no experience...but sounds
no experience...but sounds like his testing teeth on everything phase....lol
ooh i'm sure she'll let him know when she's had enough.
This is pretty standard behavior, but...
Stop the little dog from chewing on the big dog. Those needle like little teeth hurt.
Just grap the little one when the behavior begins and say, NO! In a loud firm voice.
Also, once the little dog does this once too often, the older dog will let it know that this is not good behavior.
one suggestion
that I can give is not to put him time out in his crate.
When I had similar problem with Kofi, my trainer said not to say no, but to say no bite.
What worked for me was to say no bite, and put her time out in the laundry room, only for a couple of minutes. When I opened the door, I didn't talk to her but ignored her for awhile.
I promise, I tried everything imagineable and this is the only thing that worked. He will calm down though, puppies just must learn not to put teeth on humans.
Perhaps he is biting on the wrinkles because there is an odor that attracts him. I would do the same no bite and time out with that problem too.
Hope this helps to relieve some of the frustration that can come from puppie training.
They are so darn cute!
No Bite
...don't just use "no" because they hear that all the time and it means nothing in the end. I prefer "No Bite". Fingers an toys are fair game. Wear shoes and make sure you and your children don't tease the puppy with finger type games.
Time out...but give the puppy a toy when he goes in time out. They need to associate chewing with toys, not skin.
This is common, bulldog puppies are very bitey puppies. Not only are they teething but that jaw is changing as well. Just like a human child they need stuff to chew on and suck on. Mine loved those Nylabone Teething Pacifiers and the Keys.
Let the older dog scold him, that is how they learn to properly socialize, when it goes overboard then time out.