[WiscTiger]

Pryght, I have a question for you, What are your plans with your pup? If you have a thought about even trying SchH, then you don't really want to teach bite inhibition, you want to use the re-direct technique. You teach the pup that toys and tugs are appropriate to bite and always use that to replace your human flesh.

I have scars from each one of my pups, to me that is just part of the package you get when you want a herding or working type dog.

All pups learn the same way and explore pretty much the same way they use their mouth. So the only method I prefer to use is to redirect the pup to some thing that is acceptable to bite.

So you have options of teaching bite inhibition and shutting down your pups desire to want to do things in the future like play tugs or do SchH. You can teach redirect and the pup will learn what is acceptable to bite on and at the same time your build the drive and the love of toy and tug.

Some of the methods posted earlier will probably give you faster results, but I am not looking for fast, I am looking for building play and drives. I use those things as training progresses, to me it is easier to work with a dogs drives than to try to squash them.

Val

 

[WiscTiger]

Dave, the harshness in training depends on the trainer and once in a while the dog. So I wouldn't rule out SchH, you can go to clubs and train and not do protection and get OB and TR (Obedience and Tracking) titles.

I like the redirect and getting my pups loving playing with toys or tugs because like I said I can use that in any form of training.

Val