How to stop a puppy from Biting?

You need to start teaching him bite inhibition, he will fully learn this at around 4 to 4 and a half months of age.

* Sit down with the pup to play, bringing his attention to your hands. When the pup tries to bite your hand too hard, yelp or say 'Oww' firmly and stop interaction. In addition to stopping interaction, some canine specialists advise to pull your hands back and freeze, and to avert your eyes or look to the side, away from the pup.

* Do not make your response sound like wincing or whining, or the pup may think it's part of the game. The pup needs to learn that fun stops when he bites.

* Give the pup a toy to chomp on intead of your hands or clothing. If he does not take the toy and instead nips again, stop interacting. Turn away, cross your arms, do not look back...you can even walk away.

* After time has passed, face your pup again and offer your hand. If he tries to bite, repeat the process.

* When your pup is gentle, pet and praise him calmly and resume play.

* If he bites again, say "Oww" as you did previously, and give him a 10-minute time-out. Leave the room, or better yet, place your pup in a time-out area. This area can be a separate room with no people or animal occupants, or in his crate. But avoid making this action seem like punishment -- you do not want the pup to learn to fear the crate or associate it with punishment. Time out is not the same as punishment. It is a suspension of playtime and fun.

* As you practice, the pup will use less and less pressure as he comes in contact with your hand.

* Keep in mind that the first goal is to teach the dog to actively inhibit the force of his bite, and THEN reduce the frequency. If you never let the pup put his jaws on you at all, when it does happen (say, an accident during which the dog's paw gets stepped on), the dog will probably react with an over-strong bite.

* Do not tap or smack the dog's nose as punishment for nipping -- instead of discouraging nipping, this tends to trigger instinctive biting in self-defense.

* Do not tease a pup or dog by flashing hands around his face or tapping his face. This can scare or startle the dog and trigger biting behavior, whether in play or self-defense.

* However, as the bite inhibition training progresses, you can gradually begin to incorporate some sudden movements into your play with the dog so he learns to be less spooked by human movement. If a dog is afraid of objects, you can help desensitize him by slowly incorporating hand-held objects into play.

* Daily grooming helps a dog get used to human touch. Teach your pup early on to allow you to touch his face and open his mouth. This will prepare him for activities like vet exams and tooth brushing. Start by gently raise the dog's lip and praise. You can also give a treat. Gradually lift the rest of his lip and examine the inside of his month.

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Is this a large breed puppy or small breed or medium breed puppy?

I found with large breed play puppy biters, that it was so painful and the teeth were like razor blades, just would rip the skin off our arms and legs. Everyone would ask me at the store, etc, what happened to your arms, it looks like someone took razor blades and slashed you.

We did the cup the muzzle closed with our hands, No Bite. but it wasn't working. Let go, and the biting would continue.

We found the quickest solution is to command NO BITE, then if big puppy bites again, then put on a soft mesh muzzle for 5 minutes, no longer. Then remove.

If the puppy play bites again on our skin, we command NO BITE in strong authoritative tone, if puppy doesn't listen and bites skin again, then put the mesh muzzle on for 5 minutes, never longer. This biting will completely stop in a few days or sooner.

Then just clip the muzzle on your pants or in your pocket, if puppy forgets, command No Bite, then they bite again anyway, just show the muzzle, and most puppies will just lick you and let you know they will stop biting.

Everyone once in while they do forget and start the continual play biting, just put on the muzzle for 5 minutes, and they will remember not to bite skin.

I wish we had done this the first week. We didn't figure this out for some 6 weeks of misery bleeding arms and legs. Puppies learn this fast with the soft mesh muzzle and the authoritative command No Bite.

All puppies bite

When puppies play with their litter-mates they bite.

When the pup bites you make a sharp high pitched noise, this is what the litter-mates do to let the other know that they bit to hard.

Say firmly "No Bite" (not yelling just firmly) Remove your pup from the situation .. ie... if biting you, stand up and give the pup no attention until he calms down, if he bites again do the same thing. Always saying "No Bite" each time the pup bites or mouths someone inappropriately.

Also give your pup something that is appropriate to bite and or chew on. When he is biting or chewing the chew toy tell him he is good.

dont add to the excitement first of all. dogs will listen to people that have a calm assertive demeanor. when he starts jumping up and down instead of hugging him and playing with him, step back a little and ignore him till he approaches u in a calm manner. thats the best way for a dog to understand he needs to be calm to please u. for biting making eye contact and looking at him with a frown and telling him to stop should be enough if ur calm and assertive. the main thing is to not add energy to a dog thats overly excited by yelling or jumping around. calmness is best to diffuse a situation. that works well for barking, make sure u dont let anything slide so your puppy doesnt gain bad habits.

You can scold him and let him know what he did was wrong. Also, my brother had a puppy who used to bite and we got this bitter apple spray. We sprayed it on our hands for a few days and he didn't like it, so he stopped biting. Now he just licks us :)

You cant .. Its what puppys do. Scold them a little bit. Give them the idea its not okay and most puppies grow out of it. But just for now give it a hint that its not okay.

you go and yelp like a dog and turn around, make the dog think you got really hurt and do other things so they learn its not good.

never play rough with them with the play biting, it could transfer into adulthood and they don't realse their actions could be harmfull.

Flick him on the nose. They will get the hint after awhile and stop biting.

scold him with loud noises loud and short, like HEY! Make sure he has enough toys and it might help to go to a local dog park (you can always start him in the timid section), or a neighbors house for a little dogie play-date.

he is probably teething like babies only with teeth

good luck!!!!