Ok. I know GSD puppies bite. Heck I even named my guy after a shark after having him for 3 days.
We've focused on bite inhibition and 90% of the time he is soft when he bites, even so we do a lot of redirection to toys. A little "ah ah" and then a ton of praise when he switches to the toy followed by a game of tug with said toy. When he gets too worked up and is being a monster the fun and games end until he has calmed enough for impulse control.
The past 3 days though Mako has made a new game of latching on and not letting go.
The other day he pounced on my foot. I lifted my leg and up came the pup along with it. He had paws around my ankle and had gripped down on my pant leg. Lucky for me he had mostly cloth. I lowered my leg so he could have paws on the ground and I tried to redirect to his tug toy. He didn't stop until he had ripped a big hole in the fabric and tore a piece off. Then he happily tried to play tug.
Last night he was playing with my boyfriend while I was cooking dinner. All of a sudden I hear this horrible mean growly yell from my bf. "GET OFF!!!". I came running out. Thinking that there was a home invasion of some sort. The yell he let out scared me and I was a room away. He is a big guy and has a very deep baritone voice. I get to the living room just in time to see Mako latched onto his hand and him attempting to FLING the pup off. Mako's grip slipped and he tumbled down. As soon Mako popped back up to his feet he was charging right back at my signif. His hand was pretty mangled. Looked like a mini freddy kreuger attack. And yes he got a bit of an ear full about the flinging thing.
Just this afternoon I was playing tug with the little landshark. He came running up to grab the toy then at the last second nabbed my wrist instead. My yelping in pain didn't work. So I tried to make my hand "dead" and not fun while flipping the toy around in the other hand trying to make it seem much more interesting. That didn't work. I even resorted to a splash of water. Nope. Just made him clamp down harder. I had to pry his little jaws off of my wrist.
He is even doing it with the other dogs. He latched onto a tail and wouldn't let go. The adult dog gave a pretty harsh correction. Mako let out a yelp. But was going after the adult again pretty much immediately.
What should I do? - aside from investing my life savings in the company that makes neosporin I mean
We've upped the exercise, and tried bitter apple (Which he happily licks off). Any ideas on how to get him to let go? Is there a safe way to pry puppy jaws apart if he does this again? I'm worried about hurting him. :help:
We've focused on bite inhibition and 90% of the time he is soft when he bites, even so we do a lot of redirection to toys. A little "ah ah" and then a ton of praise when he switches to the toy followed by a game of tug with said toy. When he gets too worked up and is being a monster the fun and games end until he has calmed enough for impulse control.
The past 3 days though Mako has made a new game of latching on and not letting go.
The other day he pounced on my foot. I lifted my leg and up came the pup along with it. He had paws around my ankle and had gripped down on my pant leg. Lucky for me he had mostly cloth. I lowered my leg so he could have paws on the ground and I tried to redirect to his tug toy. He didn't stop until he had ripped a big hole in the fabric and tore a piece off. Then he happily tried to play tug.
Last night he was playing with my boyfriend while I was cooking dinner. All of a sudden I hear this horrible mean growly yell from my bf. "GET OFF!!!". I came running out. Thinking that there was a home invasion of some sort. The yell he let out scared me and I was a room away. He is a big guy and has a very deep baritone voice. I get to the living room just in time to see Mako latched onto his hand and him attempting to FLING the pup off. Mako's grip slipped and he tumbled down. As soon Mako popped back up to his feet he was charging right back at my signif. His hand was pretty mangled. Looked like a mini freddy kreuger attack. And yes he got a bit of an ear full about the flinging thing.
Just this afternoon I was playing tug with the little landshark. He came running up to grab the toy then at the last second nabbed my wrist instead. My yelping in pain didn't work. So I tried to make my hand "dead" and not fun while flipping the toy around in the other hand trying to make it seem much more interesting. That didn't work. I even resorted to a splash of water. Nope. Just made him clamp down harder. I had to pry his little jaws off of my wrist.
He is even doing it with the other dogs. He latched onto a tail and wouldn't let go. The adult dog gave a pretty harsh correction. Mako let out a yelp. But was going after the adult again pretty much immediately.
What should I do? - aside from investing my life savings in the company that makes neosporin I mean
We've upped the exercise, and tried bitter apple (Which he happily licks off). Any ideas on how to get him to let go? Is there a safe way to pry puppy jaws apart if he does this again? I'm worried about hurting him. :help:
