Friday, February 19, 2010

How to Use Havanese Training to Alleviate Mouthing and Nipping Habits

Javanese puppy owners may have to expect your puppy to bite and strangle one of the obstacles for puppy rising. A typical Javanese Education case study involving magnetic and charming puppy who is socialized, and mostly potty trained, but very energetic and prone to mouthing and stifling sometimes. Any solution may have been tried already, yelping in imitation of siblings, scuffing dog and ignore the dog, but the mystery remains of the dog that refuses to give up on his unwanted behavior.

Note that this dog gets plenty of exercise in the form of mile walks early in the day and late afternoon, and play sessions throughout the day.

The question is, of course, what immediate action needs to be done. True that the puppy mouthing / biting stage of truth will end at some point, but it does not mean mouthing / biting borders are not necessary. On the contrary, so much learning is wasted if the dog does not learn these limits.

A short term solution that has an effect is to suddenly take the dog up and put it in his box in five minutes "time out", after which it may find itself a good deal. But even this is not enough to address the underlying causes, or triggers of the biting, is an example of which screams after being bitten, there seems to excite the dog.

First and foremost is the need to avoid trying too many things in so short a time. They ignore the routine work, but there is a need to be consistent with actually getting up, ignoring the dog (plus avoiding eye contact) for at least a minute. This will also be patiently worked on today, for the dog to really understand what is happening.

Next, everyone needs to know that teaching bite inhibition is really something that can deliver results, provided that it is consistently done. Since his interaction with his siblings would have been the earliest "school" to bite inhibition, an owner will have to follow it all up by taking advantage of your puppy nips and bites at him or her.

The Javanese Training basic bite inhibition is that every time the dog makes attempts at skin, clothing or whatever, that the human needs provide the puppy-like yelp, and to exaggerate ignore the dog and makes an about face. The dog will soon come over to make up. But when it does, that the human need to be aware of chew toys that will really catch the dog's attention, for example, bully stick, calves hooves, or a plastic doggie teething ring.

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