How To Stop Puppy Biting Lesson3
Welcome to "Biting Puppies. How To Stop Puppy Biting Lesson 3". We will now turn our attentions to the importance of Exercise when it comes to answering the question "How To Stop Puppies From Biting?"
All Dogs,young, old, large or small need sufficient exercise if they are to be happy and just as important, to be well behaved. Most Dogs, if left un-exercised for a day or two will quickly become very hard to control and their behaviour will become destructive or worse. Puppies, although young and still forming need sufficient exercise. Training puppies to not bite can be better accomplished by following the techniques listed in thtis and the the other lessons.
They need exercise both to grow well and to burn off the excess energy that often results in Puppy biting.
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Exercise To Help A Puppy To Stop Biting
Today we will look at the importance of exercise and also the techniques we can employ to maximise our quest to learn how to stop biting Puppies. We shall cover a few of the ways to use exercise as a means of controlling Puppy biting and they will be as follows:
- When to exercise a Puppy
- How to best exercise a Puppy
- The importance of the correct Leash
- How to stop the Puppy biting the Leash
- Use Exercise without your involvement
Apart from the aid exercise gives a Puppy owner in curbing a Puppies natural instinct to bite and feel with its mouth everything around it, exercise and proper control are an inherent part of any good training regime that all Dog owners should follow. Regardless of whether you have a Puppy that wont stop biting or not, a good exercise regime should be followed nonetheless.
When To Exercise A Puppy To Help Stop Puppies From Biting
Although not part of this series of articles, any new owner of a Puppy will by now be very well aware of the fact that Puppies need to go to the Toilet an awful lot. Ideally you will be letting your Puppy in and out on numerous occasions to help potty train your Puppy. They will get a little bit of exercise from this but you need a fairly strict regime if you wish to use exercise as a way to stop biting Puppies.
When should you exercise your Puppy?
Firstly, there should be a good morning walk or playtime outside. Puppies are still growing and you need to be careful how much exercise to give a Puppy. Too much can stunt their growth and cause other problems later on in life. Exercise may be play or a walk. Personally I encourage both play and walking as a means of aiding owners learn how to stop Puppy biting. I always used both both with a careful eye on the state of the Puppy.
Try to ensure that you exercise your Puppy in the morning to dissipate that morning energy and at least another walk in the evening. If you can add additional short walks throughout the day then that is all for the good.
How To Exercise A Puppy Correctly To Help Training A Puppy Not To Bite
Much of the reason behind why Puppies bite is that they simply have an abundance of energy. Full of life and keen to experience the world via their little Puppy teeth they need a way of dissipating that energy in a non destructive manner. Exercise, especially in the form of walks is perfect to burn of excess energy and will do the owner nothing but good as well.
The fundamentals of exercising and training a puppy not to bite are that you should never push it to far. Puppies can tire very quickly, as you will have noticed if you suddenly see it collapse after playing for a short time. When walking your Puppy to burn off energy take very short walks to begin with. Just a few minutes at a time. You do not want to walk a Puppy too far only to have it not realistically feel up to returning home.
Take a short walk if the Puppy is biting and this will easily and effectively help the Puppy to stop biting.
The Correct Leash To Stop Puppy From Biting
I am a firm believer in the Choker Chain when it comes to quickly and effectively Leash training Dogs, but this is not appropriate for young Dogs. Dogs under roughly six months of age should not have a Choker Chain as it may damage their still delicate bodies.
You must, however ensure that you use the correct leash when using exercise to correct Puppy biting. In a nutshell this means
A VERY SHORT LEASH
Training a puppy not to bite will be better accomplished if you follow this advice. This really does apply to Dogs of all ages and the sooner you implement using a short Leash the quicker you will both train your Dog to walk effectively by your side and also escape the Puppy biting that can easily occur if it is allowed to move about too much and therefore be able to bit on the Leash at will.
The correct Leash will be short, very short. It should be just long enough so that the Puppy can sniff the ground by your side but cannot roam from you. This short Leash has many advantages. The fact that the Puppy cannot move far from your side means you are effectively training it to heel without too much effort and it also means it cannot easily bite on the Leash as it could if it were to be long. The Leash should have a Leather handle and the rest should be Chain. Nylon, cord etc are prime for biting Puppies to decide to play with. Chain on the other hand is a good deterrent against their desire to bite.
A Puppy biting a lead can be mostly avoided simply by using an extremely short one. Puppy training biting problems should not be hindered by improper use of the lead.
How To Stop A Puppy Biting The Leash
If you have applied what was said in the previous section you should not have much problem with the Puppy biting the Leash. You can stop Puppies biting quite effectively simply by not giving them any Leash to bite. Keep it very short, made of Chain and it will not be much of a problem.
If the Puppy still keeps trying to bite the Leash then you need a gentle but firm "snap" of the Leash. Please be extremely careful and use your common sense. Young Dogs are extremely delicate and you can severely damage them if you are forceful. Use common sense and be very careful. To be honest if you use a very short metal Lead you should not really have this concern. I would rather use a very short Leash to stop biting Puppies than to have to resort to a "snap" when it is too young to really be trained this way.
Use Puppies Own Energy To Help Stop Puppies From Biting
Not to be overlooked as a very effective means of tiring a Puppy out and aiding in the quest to stop biting Puppies running amok. Puppies are naturally full of energy and you should use this to your advantage. We have looked at he importance of exercise and how you can safely walk your Puppy on a Leash to burn up energy but you should take advantage of the Puppies own wish to run around and play.
Hopefully you will have access to somewhere safe outside. If your biting Puppy has begun to bite things in the house, yes, you included, there is no way better way to stop this than to get outside in a safe area and let the Puppy run free. You will quickly see this is what the Puppy wanted all along. Puppies can go crazed if they are free to run around outside.
You will notice that the Puppy will monitor its own play time. It won't play for too long without a rest of some sort. Their bodies tell them when it is time to take a break and this is perfect for you to observe just how much exercise your Puppy needs at any given time.
After having a good run around and play outside it is very likely that your Puppy will do nothing but rest when at home. This outdoor activity should be repeated as often as you possibly can. Puppy training biting problems are often partly due to too much energy. The Puppy can control how much to play and it is one of the finest ways of getting a puppy to stop biting.
