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How to Train Puppies to Stop Biting

by Joe R. Hilliard

Having a puppy is a fun experience, but that experience will sour if you dont give it proper training. For example, it may never grow out of its puppy habit of biting. People ask me from time to time how to get their puppy to stop biting, and I always tell them that this is a puppys natural behavior; young puppies like to bite and chew.

However, if your puppys biting tendencies get overboard, you should now probably think about how to get it to stop biting.

One technique to get a puppy to stop biting is by obedience training involving water. What you do is take a water sprayer, wait for your puppy to chew on something, and spray water on it. A nice, good spray, especially when caught off-guard, is a great way to get your puppy to stop biting.

A good spray of water, especially in the face and when caught off-guard, is a highly effective method of stopping your puppy from biting. Just make sure that the sprays are done in the act of biting, otherwise the dog will not equate the biting with the spraying.

You can also try the yelp technique, which is also effective in preventing your puppy from biting. This method is used to make your puppy stop biting you or other people, and not items around the house. What you do is when the puppy bites you, you yelp instead of being angry at your puppy.

By yelping, you make your puppy think that they bit too hard, and they will stop biting. This makes use of dog mentality (dogs also bite when they are playful), its effective in keeping your dog from biting, and it doesnt confuse or intimidate your puppy because you dont get upset at it.

Another great technique is to use orange peels around the house. Dogs dont like orange peels for some reason, and you can put orange peels on items your puppy likes to bite to make it turn away from that object. White pepper is also an effective substitute.

Anyway, these techniques presented above are effective in preventing your puppy from biting, but do remember that most puppies outgrow biting when they reach maturity. These techniques presented above are only supplements, to make sure your puppy does outgrow the habit.

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