YNP #046: Puppy Biting and Why You Might Still Be Struggling
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Especially with a new puppy, you’ll hear 20 times a day, play with your puppy, exercise your puppy, stimulate your puppy so they don’t get bored, bond with them to create a strong relationship…
OK OK, we get it’s important but after 160 games of fetch things get a little…well, boring.
In this episode, I’m going to go through 10 ways to play with your dog. And this is just to get you started, it doesn’t stop here, not even close. In reality, there are hundreds of ways to play with your dog. I want you and your dog to get creative and take it from here.
With the cold weather settling in here in NJ I decided to concentrate on indoor activities. It’s easy to take things outside and get all the exercise and entertainment you need. It’s when you’re stuck inside that things get harder.
No matter what activity we do with them, we are entertaining, stimulating, and bonding with them. It’s tiring them out that can sometimes seem impossible. That is why I also focused on ways that will up the exercise and tiring out factor. At the end of the day (literally) what we want is a tired and happy dog!
Your dog will probably have their favorites. I hope you can find something you love, your dog loves AND gets everyone to sleep!
Let’s get those creative juices going!! Press play to listen and enjoy!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your |
| 0:16.8 | host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 46 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today we're going to talk about |
| 0:37.8 | puppy biting or puppy nipping. Same thing. Essentially when your puppy plays with you and it hurts. Those puppy teeth are sharp and they might scratch you. They might even break skin and draw blood. He's not being aggressive, he's not attacking you. Our puppies just don't know how to play with us humans. We are little wimps in their eyes. |
| 1:03.0 | So how you teach them how to play with you |
| 1:07.4 | is pretty straightforward, |
| 1:09.2 | but there are multiple reasons |
| 1:11.5 | why you might struggle through it. So I'm going to go over both. |
| 1:16.9 | So first it's important to remember through all of this that we are teaching our puppy something new. |
| 1:24.0 | They don't know how to play with their human family. |
| 1:28.7 | They come to us only knowing how to play with their litter mate and their mom. |
| 1:34.4 | And their litter mates and their mom |
| 1:36.7 | have much tougher fur-covered skin than we do. |
| 1:41.5 | And that's who they're built to play with and learn how to play properly with. |
| 1:47.6 | Not us. So we are teaching our puppy something brand new. So it's not about stopping the puppy biting, it's about |
| 1:55.2 | teaching them how to play with us. Which in turn stops the puppy biting, but |
| 2:01.2 | we'll get to that. |
| 2:02.8 | That's just the first thing I want you to remember |
| 2:04.9 | because this is a very frustrating thing to deal with. |
| 2:09.6 | Just about every puppy owner deals with it. |
| 2:11.6 | It's up there with potty training. It's like just part of the |
| 2:14.7 | journey. For some, it's an annoyance. For others, it might even be affecting your relationship |
| 2:22.0 | with your dog, |
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