Biting Hands help!!

[Hrachia]

Exercise is the most important thing to any and all behaviors. Give your pup more exercise earlier in the day and when he is tired the behavior will be more easier to manage. Also kongs filled with peanut butter and frozen will give your pup hours of stimulation which will make him more toy driven.

[MaggieRoseLee]

Originally Posted by pshah0002

thank you all for suggestions. I was scared that he was becoming aggressive towards me, but he had never growl or bark at me or anyone else or pets. I take him to puppy classes and he also try to bite other puppies but nver growl at them.

PLEASE read this ---> Puppy BITING!!! Teaching Bite Inhibition

[KentuckyGSDLover]

Originally Posted by MaggieRoseLee

I absolutely disagree with that suggestion.

Unless you like to end up with a dog that may flinch away from your hands and be headshy as it grows.

I've only done it immediately upon the bites/nips while saying no, so they knew darn well what it was associated with, and two GSDs have lived to ripe old ages without being head-shy. The ONLY way I stopped this third adolescent (and I tried everything else first because she's somewhat fearful by nature and I'm really focused on positive reinforcement, but she was drawing blood with play nips) was to flap a leash on her nose with a stern "no." After two consistent days she stopped, and she's not head-shy, either (in fact, she just dropped on a Kong on my lap and is staring at me, inches from my face). She does still do the nibble-teeth thing on my jeans seam when I ignore her and she wants me to throw her Kong, but that's not harmful so I let that go (so she did learn "soft bites" at 18 months old!). I save it for the big stuff, and as far as I'm concerned, biting me hard enough to hurt is the big stuff.