Help my 6 week old puppy bit my 2 year old

[Konotashi]

I know some of these posts come off as harsh, but everyone really is looking out for the sake of your family and your puppy.

As I'm sure you understand by now, 6 weeks is too young to be away from its mom.

But the growling you heard may have been a frustrated growl, not an aggressive growl. I very, VERY highly doubt you have an 'aggressive' puppy. I've never heard of one. He's a puppy - a baby. You have to teach babies not to hit and bite people. Now that you have this very young puppy, you have to teach your guy not to bite. Normally a lesson his littermates and mother help him learn. But as has been stated before, puppies (especially GSDs) are mouthy for a while.

Wishing you the best of luck.

[akittrell]

I got him at 6 weeks because his mother had mastitis and could not feed him anymore and the lady told me her vet said it was ok to send him to my home and when i took him to my vet he said nothing about him being to young or I would have took him back,he will be 7 weeks tomorrow so I have had him a week, I feel bad I took him away from him famiy to early but I am still offended that some of you think I absused my puppy. I waited a ver long time for him and animals are a very big part of my life.

[sagelfn]

Originally Posted by akittrell

I got him at 6 weeks because his mother had mastitis and could not feed him anymore and the lady told me her vet said it was ok to send him to my home and when i took him to my vet he said nothing about him being to young or I would have took him back,he will be 7 weeks tomorrow so I have had him a week, I feel bad I took him away from him famiy to early but I am still offended that some of you think I absused my puppy. I waited a ver long time for him and animals are a very big part of my life.

for the record I did not say you were abusing your puppy. I know plenty of people that think the correct response to a puppy biting/nipping is to smack it on the muzzle and yell "no" or whatever they want to command. I'm pretty confident that most everyone on this board has at 1 time or another lost their cool and yelled at their dog...those sharp puppy teeth hurt! I'm sorry that you were offended though.

There is more to being with the litter other than feeding, a puppy at that age should begin to eat solid food anyway. There are dog social skills they learn that are very important. Someone already posted a great link about development. If its still an option I would take the pup back so it can learn those skills.

as someone who as you put it "waited a ver long time for him and animals are a very big part of my life." I would have hoped that you had researched the breed and learned what I feel is pretty basic knowledge to anyone thinking about getting a puppy. Thats not meant to insult you just calling it like I see it. Despite that no one here has refused to offer you advice, you've been given some really great advice and links and yes some has been a bit straight forward and seemingly harsh but for me I can't speak for others it comes from passion for the breed and frustration at hearing similar stories all the time.

Don't be discouraged from posting and asking questions, thats the point of this place to share and learn

[akittrell]

Thanks I did not see it it that way but it makes alot of sense so I will work on this.

[onyx'girl]

Originally Posted by akittrell

I got him at 6 weeks because his mother had mastitis and could not feed him anymore and the lady told me her vet said it was ok to send him to my home and when i took him to my vet he said nothing about him being to young or I would have took him back,he will be 7 weeks tomorrow so I have had him a week, I feel bad I took him away from him famiy to early but I am still offended that some of you think I absused my puppy. I waited a ver long time for him and animals are a very big part of my life.

What is done is done, enjoy your pup and work with him, learn how to train him so he grows into a great family companion.
Just for others reading this, a six week old puppy would not be nursing any longer, at about 4 weeks they should start eating mushy food, so weaning takes place. From 4 to 8 weeks the mom will be around the litter less, but still with pups to teach them. I read another thread where the pups were sold early because Mom wouldn't feed them after 4 weeks, so the owner sold all the pups.
This was an oops breeding, rescued from friend found out she was expecting, so the new owner wasn't a breeder. That poster is having the same problem with biting. The lessons mom and littermates can teach is invaluable, the reason to keep pups together til they are 8 weeks.

[LaRen616]

I had the SAME problem! We got a Siberian Husky puppy, he was 8 weeks old when we got him. We had him for almost 4 weeks and had to get rid of him. HE WAS A NIGHTMARE!!!! He was VERY aggressive. He was food and toy aggressive towards our GSD and he constantly went after my cats pinning them down and was trying to kill them (no doubt in my mind that he wanted to kill them, he was not playing at all). He bit everyone that he met, not play bites, real bite down draw blood and wont let go bites. He CHARGED at us, he growled at us and towards the end he began stalking us! He refused to submit to us (we would lay him on his side and after about 3-4 minutes he would relax so we would let him get up and he'd turn and charge at us!) My Aunt watched him for 4 days and when she was feeding him one night he came up behind her and bit her in her back! She had a huge bruise and he broke her skin. She told me she would never step foot in my house again as long as I had that bast***. When I took him to the Vet she told me that she had not seen a puppy that aggressive in a long time and recommended he start puppy classes at 4 months old and that he be neutered at 5 months old. She also said that he might have pyschological problems not behavioral problems. Anyways the real reason we got rid of him was that he was biting my GSD, he bit his tongue and made him bleed, he would grab him by the lip and pull the skin and he would bit and pull right above my dogs eye!! I was so scared that he would get his eyeball! My GSD has bald spots on his lip and above his eye now. I am sorry say what you want to but there was no way that I was going to keep him after all of that. The puppy found a new home now. One without cats and other dogs and with someone that has experience with the breed. He called me yesterday and told me that the puppy is biting and attacking him and that he is going to work with someone that specializes with Siberian Husky's. I'm glad he's gone and I will NEVER have another Husky again, NEVER!

[LaRen616]

Also.... I had a Husky/Shepherd mix growing up and I DID ALOT of research on the breed and learned everything I could on them. Yes, puppies bite, I am aware. I raised 2 Chow/Rott/Lab/Border Collie mixes at the same time and I raised my GSD and I raised a Pomeranian from 8 weeks to 20 weeks old. So I know that they bit but they didn't know any better and they were play bites not bite down hard and not let go bites.

[onyx'girl]

Where did you end up "getting rid of him" to? Did the breeder take him back?

[LaRen616]

The breeder told me that she would put him down because she didn't want to resell him. I asked her if she would try to work with him (I mean he is still little, so he may have hope with intense training) she told me she wouldn't. I couldn't give him back to her knowing that he would be put down (or possibly turn into another one of her breeding dogs, and he should NEVER be bred) she also told me that she would not refund my money but give me a new puppy, I did not want a new puppy, I never wanted a Husky again. He was absolutely beautiful but his parents were not top quality dogs and should not have reproduced. Anyways I found a guy that had Siberian Husky's his whole life and knew some could be challenging and I told him everything that happened with the dog and he said that the puppy looked just like his old dog and that he would take him. He asked me how much I paid and when I told him he gave me the exact amount for him! So he took him and he will take him to puppy classes and possibly tech him how to be a sled dog

[georgiapeach717]

i have to think that like people, some dogs just are kinda messed up mentally. Some are probably more aggressive due to bad breeding, or genetics, or chemical makeup...but whatever it is, i am SURE this person was there and can tell if something is aggressive or not. I doubt there is NO records of naturally aggressive puppies.

Also to say to NOT let the kids handle a puppy, well IMO thats rediculous! I am not saying to let small children have an all out assault on the pup, but MOST dogs are brought in to be family members....if I let my 3 year old hold and love on my newborn baby I should SURELY be able to do the same with a puppy....

sadly some posts do come off as if people are blind to any negative light shed on dogs and that dogs are always the victims and people are always the one doing something wrong. I dont care for it, and I dont like how it seems how new posters on here get treated like alien outcasts to be scared off.

Someone cared enough to SEARCH on an internet for HELP on an alarming puppy issue and was met with hostility from some of the responses. Does she get no credit for giving a crap enough to come look for HELP?

maybe I am just tired this morning but I see this more than here and dont care for it.

can we not welcome someone in and try to help without criticizing?

I see all over about POSITIVE training for PUPPIES, but humans looking for help cant get the same? Not every GSD owner is a veteran to the breed and not every puppy owner has grown up with dogs.

To the OP, I hope this is just a phase that passes and your pup can grow healthy and happy in your home. I had a chihuahua dauchshund mix one time who at 8 weeks old was so aggressive with my children, literally snarling and lips raised and growling licking its teeth angry that I gave it back to the owner (who yes, was a BYB) I absolutely knew the difference and with two small kids (laci was a baby at the time) I was not going to take the chance since I have friends who had similar issues and their dogs never changed and dogs and kids have to be kept seperate...and that is NOT what I wanted for a family pet. Good luck to you.