If you’ve ever had a puppy dog, you can tell to what extent they love biting and chewing. Because they are puppies and highly energetic, they tend to bite at anything -shoes, clothes, hands, cushions- just for the fun of it. Sometimes this can be fun if the materials they bite are not valuable. But when it comes to our precious hands, clothes, shoes, then it becomes irritating at the least. Their sharp, needle-pointed teeth are extremely painful to the hands and damaging to the clothes. If the puppies are left to grow like this, they could cause a lot of pain and harm to innocent loving people.

Puppies naturally tend to bite at hands and clothes as a form of play. It is appealing to them and they love the attention they get particularly when you act like you are fighting them off.

So how do you teach your dog to stop biting painfully and develop the soft, painless bite needed for fun? According to Aidan Bindoff, the dog needs to learn “Bite Inhibition”. This is where you take something away from them because of their painful or destructive biting.

To do this effectively, you have to apply the “time out” method. A time out is a method used to let the dog know that what it has done is wrong and hence, getting the desired result of its stopping or minimizing that action.

There are two variants to this. You could either squeal like a puppy to inhibit biting too hard. This method is not exactly failsafe. Some people who have used this method attest to its effectiveness, while others noticed an actual increase in bite. Some puppies actually enjoy it when you squeal. This only gets them more excited resulting in more painful bites. Therefore, it varies. If you squeal and your puppy stops biting, then it just might work for you. On the other hand, you need to monitor it over a long-term period before you can ascertain its effectiveness.

The second and by far a very effective method is the “Ouch” method. Please pay attention here, as the success of this method is dependent on the EXACT execution of its instruction.

In this method, when the puppy bites you, you say ‘ouch’ in a neutral voice tone -be careful not to say it in a high-pitched nor angry manner- then walk out of the place. If there’s a door, close it as you walk out and stay outside for thirty seconds. This denotes and marks the type of behavior you are trying to stop, and gives time-out consequently for its biting you. It may take a little while before the puppy figures out that your walking out of the room is as a result of its biting. However, continuously doing this will mark it out as a negative behavior you do not like. If you have folks around in the same room, take the puppy out and shut the door on it for just 30 seconds.

This is only effective if you see a marked decrease in its sharp biting. If there is no significant change or decrease, then continuing with the techniques is a waste of time, energy and effort. If this does not work, then you might want to seek out a professional for a more appropriate and effective method.

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