I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

It's really a case of just carrying on with what you're doing already and having faith in the fact that one day it'll click and all the effort will have been worthwhile.

Five months is no age. Might take a few more months to get a behaviour change to stick.

You just reminded me of the time that Otto bit through my jeans and bit me on the balls when he was a five month old pup. Ouch.

If you immediately give him a toy after he nips/bites, if I read that right, you’re rewarding the behaviour. I don’t like the yelping technique either, you’re giving him a reaction. Just ignore him or put him out of the room, and be patient, it will pass.

Well, Ciqs method worked for us. But surely depends on the dog and how the person does it. The yelping approach is to mimic what a bitch will do if a pup bites too hard.

Totally agree that ignoring/turning back is effective too though.

Sure, different techniques work for different dogs and owners. I've just been reading quite a lot of stuff recently discrediting training that is based on being part of your dog's "pack". Plus, if I'd given Reggie any kind of reaction when he was nipping, it would just have fired him up more.

Giving them some deer antler to chew on will take the razor tips off the incisors too but be careful they don’t over do it and file their teeth flat with endless gnawing.

I have heard that the pack/alpha stuff is being discredited a little too.

If only human males would give up on that silliness too.

I have heard that the pack/alpha stuff is being discredited a little.

If only human males would give up on that silliness too.

re: alpha/pack stuff I caught him trying to watch red pill videos on youtube but I put blocking software on my laptop like a responsible parent, so that should be sorted. at 6 months we're planning on making him an incel so we have to stay on top of the propaganda he is exposed to.

he has a deer antler which he chews occasionally but he much prefers soft chews as i think he's not fully finished getting his adult teeth.

when benny nips at me i'll stand up and walk off as ignoring him does not work and he just bites harder but he follows me like a shadow whenever i go anywhere so the second i try to sit down again he just starts back up. for him me moving is probably more of a response/reward than getting a toy as he thinks he's going to get fed usually jumping in his crate in the kitchen which is where he waits for his food to be put down.

with the toy it diverts his attention from me/my mum and he'll go off to chew it in his bed. the issue is my mum cant jump up when he nips her so he'll get a reaction from her every time even if it's just her genuinely saying ow when he bites.

i'm sure it's mostly just a phase as his behaviour changes almost wholesale every couple of weeks and mostly improves, he's stopped being so protective of the hallway to noises outside, he stopped running away from other dogs and now wants to play most of the time, he'll sniff if people hold out their hands for a stroke rather than hide behind my legs.

nipping has replaced his barking for attention so i assume he realises that doesnt work as well now so hopefully with a bit of time he'll catch on that neither does the biting.

Our trainer told an Alsatian owner in our puppy class that if her dog nips that she should put it in its crate for 15 minutes. Even at 6 months, they can have pretty incredible jaw strength.

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A whippet puppy can bite clean through a raw chicken wing at 7 or 8 weeks....alarmingly similar to fingers!

Our trainer told an Alsatian owner in our puppy class that if her dog nips that she should put it in its crate for 15 minutes.

Wouldn't they start associating the crate with a punishment then? And wouldn't that fuck up training to make them comfortable in the crate.

(honestly asking, only time I've had dogs was as family pets years ago, and parents did most the grunt work then)

Yelping and turning your back did the trick pretty quickly for my Benny. My Colin never nipped anyone and is the sweetest-natured soul I've ever met.

My mate had success with putting her puppy onto the balcony for 30 seconds and turning her back.

I did a big "ow" and purposefully look away, seemed to work well after a while, he now bites like a twat when we "fight" but never too hard, and if it gets close responds well to "calm" in a calm voice, which initially started with a hold of the collar and down on his level with eye contact, but now mainly just needs the word. Worked well with the kid too, make sure they're listening with eye contact and on their level, and then speak quietly but firmly. Might not work if they've got all agro with eye contact in the past.

Helps that I'm obviously hench AF and super alpha.

Wouldn't they start associating the crate with a punishment then? And wouldn't that fuck up training to make them comfortable in the crate.

Absolutely, if you're crating a dog, then the crate needs to become its safe space, somewhere it needs to go happily. As soon as it becomes part of a punishment then you have potential problems.

New trainer time, as others have said their instruction could completely negate the safe space a crate is meant to create.

It wasn’t a suggestion to us as our puppy isn’t a big biter but I take your point.

We only took her to classes for socialisation and basic skills. We’ve been seeing a separate behaviourist, who is amazing, for a year with our nervy rescue dog (Staffy x JRT) so we revert to her with any major problems.

She’s helped us turn him from a nervous wreck into a cracking little dog (who still has plenty of issues).

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Yelping and turning your back did f-all with Comet. Making a fist and putting it to his mouth when he tried to bite did seem to work. Otherwise he would just be put in the kitchen for some time to calm down. He got over it - still sometimes gets a bit excited (he particularly likes a wool jumper) but his puppy razor teeth are all gone now and he never goes beyond gentle mouthing.

Poor lad is having the chop tomorrow. Any tips for a recovering puppy? We have an inflatable ring to stop him getting at the stitches.

If you're using a cone until the stitches are out, use zip ties, rather than the useless "poppers" that come with it, to keep it closed and on his head. That way you might avoid the carnage and £1600 vet fees that Reggie caused when he got his off and went to work...

If they give you anti-inflammatory drugs to stop the itching and pain, keep an eye on him. Some dogs have a bad reaction and vomit. Different dogs react differently - some are over it in a day, others mope around for a few.

We had ours in a little suit that had poppers we could undo when he went out for a piss or shite.

He hated the cone. The vets will sell you a suit at a huge markup.

You’re supposed to stop them over exerting themselves which we struggled with but if he’s crate trained, you’ll be fine.

You’ll be amazing how small the incision is - and I say that as the owner of a dog who was blessed with huge bollocks.

The little empty sack is the saddest sight in the world until it shrinks over time.

We have an inflatable ring to stop him getting at the stitches.

What breed is he?

We needed TWO inflatable rings for our whippet because his neck was long enough to get to the wound wearing just the one!

He's a toy poodle but actually miniature sized. They're pretty agile and bendy but he's never shown any sign of being able to reach that far back - or possibly there has always been something to distract him before he got that far back.

The little empty sack is the saddest sight in the world until it shrinks over time.

Feel like I'm betraying the only other male in the house. For a small breed he has surprisingly large furry balls. Poor randy little bastard.

How old is he? We had to have ours done because he was a nuisance/sex pest but I think it affected his confidence.