2. Replace your flesh with a toy When you’ve resumed play, and if your puppy tries to nip again, try replacing your hand or arm (or whatever’s being nipped) with a toy. Teach your puppy that you’re not toy. Put a toy in between you and those needle-sharp teeth!

3. The Nose Tap If your puppy nips turn to him immediately and give him “sit” command. Take your forefinger and hold it up in front of his nose, then tap him on nose and say “no bite” in a stern tone of voice. It’s important to note two things here: 1) nose tap isn’t designed as a dire punishment – you’re not trying to hurt him, but rather startle him into stopping behaviour; and 2) your tone of voice is just as important as nose tap. Don’t scream at him – your voice should be stern and give a clear warning – think of it as a verbal growl – something that he can understand as a dog. An interesting result of this manner of breaking this habit is that down road, when your puppy has learned to recognize raised finger – he’ll usually stop whatever behaviour he’s engaging in just because he knows what’s coming. You won’t even have to raise your voice – just lift that finger.

4. Don’t encourage biting or nipping in first place Don’t let kids start “chase” games – that encourages dogs to think that kids are prey. Don’t play games that involve waving your hands in front of your dog and encouraging him to jump or nip. Don’t play tug-of-war with your dog – it will not only encourage him to think he’s your equal, it can promote nipping if you use a rope toy, for example, because he’ll try to bite at your hands to make you lose your grip on toy. Play games of fetch and retrieval, but be sure that your dog knows “drop” or “release” command so you’re not fighting over toy.

5. Be consistent Stop nipping behaviour as soon as it starts, and be consistent about disciplining your puppy for it. Don’t let him get away with nipping on one day, and then discipline for same behaviour next. Dogs don’t understand “sometimes it’s ok,” or “maybe it’s ok it you don’t nip too hard and I’m in a good mood.“ They understand “Don’t ever do that,” and “No more treats if you do that.”

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3.) Establishing and promoting a level of mutual respect. Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust and respect. Trust comes with time, and proving to your dog that you will keep him safe and happy. Respect, just like with human relationships, comes from establishing boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness. Without enforceable boundaries, there is no respect. And when there is no respect, your relationship with your dog will be out of balance. And trust me, when your relationship with your dog is out of balance... nobody's having fun.

4.) Developing a way of communicating so that both individuals understand other's needs. Developing a way of communicating gets back to laying a proper foundation with your dog training. And this relates specifically to making your praise and your corrections motivational. Once your dog understands clearly when he's doing something RIGHT... and when he's doing something WRONG... a magical thing starts to happen. You find that you are actually COMMUNICATING!!! And being able to communicate with your dog is what allows you to go anywhere and do anything with your dog and know that he'll listen to you.

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