YNP #078: Games to Play with a Nipping Puppy
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
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Nipping is one of the biggest struggles every puppy parent goes through.
It can be very disheartening especially when the kids don’t want to play with the puppy anymore.
That’s why I’m giving you my three favorite games that I teach my clients to help with a nipping puppy.
Each one is designed to give you a way to interact and play with your puppy while keeping sharp teach away from sensitive fingers.
Each of these games are great for kids and adults.
In this episode I talk about:
- Why puppies nip and bite.
- To prevent nipping it’s sometimes about changing the game.
- My three favorite games to play with a nipping puppy.
- How to teach your puppy each game.
- When to involve the kids.
Press play and enjoy!
Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
YNP #046: Puppy Biting and Why You Might Still be Struggling
Playtime Paws Academy: A brand new program for dog and humans no matter where you are in your training journey.
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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 78 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I'm going to talk about |
| 0:36.3 | my three favorite games to play with a nipping puppy because anybody who's been through it knows that a nipping puppy is one of the hardest stages to deal with. |
| 0:49.0 | It hurts, it's frustrating, it can feel like the puppy's being mean, the kids end up not wanting to |
| 0:56.7 | interact with the puppy and can really bring morale down in the household. Now it's always important to remember that our puppy |
| 1:08.3 | doesn't know they're doing something wrong. If it wasn't for the fact they were |
| 1:12.2 | living with us and living in our household, them nipping |
| 1:16.0 | would actually be quite appropriate because that's how dogs interact. |
| 1:21.0 | They discover the world with their mouths. They use their mouths to play and |
| 1:27.6 | communicate with each other. So I find it's better to think about it not as I need to teach my puppy to stop nipping |
| 1:36.8 | and more I need to teach my puppy how to play with me. |
| 1:41.2 | Thinking of it that way I find can give us just a little bit more |
| 1:45.1 | patience which is usually in short supply when it comes to a nipping puppy. So sometimes |
| 1:52.0 | it's about changing the game completely. |
| 1:56.3 | So back in episode 46, I talked about how to handle it |
| 2:00.4 | when your puppy is currently nipping and biting and has their teeth on |
| 2:06.3 | pair of skin, how to disengage, how to ignore the timing of it, and the fact that |
| 2:11.8 | adults need to intervene with the kids. |
| 2:15.1 | But sometimes we can just change the game altogether and that's what these games are for. |
| 2:22.4 | They are designed to interact and engage with the puppy |
| 2:27.1 | while also keeping those sharp teeth away |
| 2:30.0 | from sensitive human skin. |
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