Biting and misbehaving?

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So we got our Doberman about 6 weeks ago. She seemed fine the first day but the second day she started biting. Obviously this is natural because she’s a puppy and all puppies bite, but since then she’s still been biting and we’ve tried all sorts of stuff that helps normal puppies. Letting your dog mouth you and yelp when they bite too hard, spray bottle, hit on the nose/backend, rolled up dishrag in the freezer to help with teething, behaviour collar etc but they all only work for 2 days and then they stop. We know she wasn’t in the best living situation with the best owners before we got her but she’s been here a while now and she’s fine most of the tome. Sometimes she’ll just keep buying you until you put her in her crate no matter what you do. Sometimes she just sits nice and all of a sudden she’s biting you. She doesn’t growl or anything. We’re hoping once her teeth fall out she’ll stop but in the mean time any advice?
 
WELCOME FOR NC
Redirect them to another activity or to a toy made to chew...that's was easy:)....Now remember, Dobe's are mouthy...they play with a wide open mouth when they get old....they put everything in it, including your hands...so training needs to start now...no human hands in their mouth...that is if your Girl is a pet...:)...as apposed to a personal protection Doberman...(trained)
 
Have you started obedience training of any kind? How old is this puppy? Attention span is very short when they are pre teething and teething so shirt training sessions. Give a clear picture of what you are wanting to teach other wise they will not understand. Correcting a puppy that dies notbinderstand is not fair to the puppy, it will not understand why it is being corrected. Many times you will create more problems down the road including trust issues. They love to bite and will be relentless about it until they are thru the teething stage. Patience, redirection, training and having fun playing are the jets to success.
 
Redirect, redirect, redirect to a chew toy. Don’t be reactive, be proactive. Have that chew toy ready in hand for when he starts biting/nipping at you. I know hard to do, but try to have fun with it.

I don’t believe you are going to stop it all of a sudden. You are just going to have to outlast the teething phase which ends about ~6months. With the redirection, you can get it to calm down somewhat though.

Also, with mine, he was all over the place during teething. Boundless energy, nipping, etc... make sure you have a nap schedule. A Doberman without naps is like a tired baby that needs a nap. Let them stay up and the behavior gets more cranky. Make them nap and it settles them somewhat.

Good luck and enjoy the puppy phase. They grow extremely fast. Mine is only ~7months and no longer a pup.

Welcome from Louisiana.
 
CRDobe said:
How old is your Puppy and what is a "behavior collar"??
Dobe puppies are enthusiastic little biters but with patience and a lot of the right kind of redirection they WILL grow out of it. In my opinion smacking them on the nose or back end is not the solution.
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My puppy is 19 weeks and a behavioural collar is a collar like adaptil that’s supposed to let out pheromones like their mother would. Yeah we learned that smacking isn’t the solution. Thanks for the advice
 
Doberman Gang said:
Have you started obedience training of any kind? How old is this puppy? Attention span is very short when they are pre teething and teething so shirt training sessions. Give a clear picture of what you are wanting to teach other wise they will not understand. Correcting a puppy that dies notbinderstand is not fair to the puppy, it will not understand why it is being corrected. Many times you will create more problems down the road including trust issues. They love to bite and will be relentless about it until they are thru the teething stage. Patience, redirection, training and having fun playing are the jets to success.
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Depends on what you mean by obedience training. She knows lots of stuff like sit, stay, when to go outside for the toilet, to sit and only eat her food when I tell her, to go into her crate etc. She’s very smart and she learnt these in about a day or two. She’s 19 weeks. Okay, thank you for the advice!
 
Ddski5 said:
Redirect, redirect, redirect to a chew toy. Don’t be reactive, be proactive. Have that chew toy ready in hand for when he starts biting/nipping at you. I know hard to do, but try to have fun with it.

I don’t believe you are going to stop it all of a sudden. You are just going to have to outlast the teething phase which ends about ~6months. With the redirection, you can get it to calm down somewhat though.

Also, with mine, he was all over the place during teething. Boundless energy, nipping, etc... make sure you have a nap schedule. A Doberman without naps is like a tired baby that needs a nap. Let them stay up and the behavior gets more cranky. Make them nap and it settles them somewhat.

Good luck and enjoy the puppy phase. They grow extremely fast. Mine is only ~7months and no longer a pup.

Welcome from Louisiana.
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Okay, I’ll try that. Thank you!
 
Start as you would normally in the text box.

Click add photos. It will take you to your iPhone photo library. Pick the desired picture.

Then look down and choose thumb nail or full image to place up into text. I like to choose full image myself.

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Where ever the cursor is, is where the picture will go when you hit the full image button.
 
GOD'S GRACE said:
Grace loved ice cubes when teething...
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As a puppy, this is probably ok. But as an adult, chewing ice has been shown to lead to stress and micro fractures of the teeth.

Crazy. I know. But often times ice is harder than bones, especially small bones. Variances are a given, such as how cold the freezer is. Colder freezer = harder ice.
 
Gotta say I don’t miss the puppy stages lol
What worked for both my dogs is the benebone, bully sticks, and antlers:)
I never give rawhide unless it’s from rawfeedingmaimi.com because it’s dangerous.
I keep them plenty busy as a pup 5 min training sessions throughout the day along with play time and naps and plenty of things to chew other then me.
I did the frozen wash cloth and Ares loved it but I never tried that with Athena because it was to dangerous and the odds of her shedding it and ingesting pieces of it were very likely.
As said redirect and keep them engaged on their chew things so you’re more boring to bite then the chew. Always praise when they are chewing what is allowed, a firm No when they try to chew on you or anything else.
 
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