Puppy Training for Biting and Mouthing

All puppies bite.  They don’t bite to be mean, or to be aggressive — not naturally, anyway.  Puppies have other reasons for biting and mouthing, and before you can break them of these habits, you have to know what the reason is for your particular puppy.  Breaking a young dog of inappropriate biting requires a little application of dog psychology.  A puppy will bite when he needs something from you:  attention, food, playtime.  Those are not behavior problems, and should never be responded to with punishment or a negative sounding voice.  But some dog biting and mouthing is a result of behavioral issues that, if left unchecked, can lead to great unhappiness for you and your pet.  Let’s learn more about dog biting and mouthing, especially in puppies, and find out how to correct this in the most appropriate way.

One of the first steps in correcting biting in puppies is to know what that biting means to them;  biting can almost always be discontinued in a young puppy, and swapped for a more desirable response.  Here is a video from a professional puppy trainer to teaches us to speak their language in order to help combat unwanted biting and mouthing: