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

Thanks all. It would be primarily for home. I’m mulling whether to get something dual purpose for the car - but as it will be a small dog (Lakeland terrier) and we have a small car I think we’ll likely get something specific for travelling. But it might be a good idea to have something packable so that if (much further) down the line we ask a relative to look after him for a couple of days, we can bring the crate with so he still has somewhere familiar to sleep.

my granddaughter informed her teacher that she'd spent the weekend bringing back the dead

Excellent.

It's new (first) puppy day at Fatberg towers. The kids don't know and will find out when they get home from work. Stand by for spammage.

Puppy keeps biting/gumming my forearm. Nobody else in the family gets this and he will not stop. Every time I sit down to play with him, bam, he bites.
So it's a firm "no" then stand up and disaengage from interacting. When I next try it's the same.

Why me? How do I stop?

Have you tried making a high pitched yelp instead? That's how dog tend to correct overly forceful play behaviour.

I had exactly this, and also far more often with me than with anyone else. I tried the firm no/replacing with toys/high-pitched yelps/ignoring him etc but nothing really worked, for about ~6 months he REALLY wanted his mouth on me. Very pleased to report that at 14 months now this has almost entirely stopped....

Also, someone looking rather unsure about their recent absolute clean-up* at the local pub's dog-show!

• - 'most handsome hound' and 'best in show' - clearly the judges loved a big idiot longboy.
  

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Also, I wouldn't stress too much about it if he's still young. So much puppy behaviour passes quite quickly & if you stop play when he does it, he'll probably work out not to do it sooner or later. If he's only doing it to you I'd guess it's because he thinks you're the most fun person.

I don't think I've done an Ada update in ages. She turned two a few weeks ago and is generally great, though maybe a little too confident, which has led to a few altercations (almost always with female dogs, usually over balls). But she's amazing with children, puppies, etc.
I took some nice potraits of her a little while back (cheap amazon ring flash - got lucky with light).

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The yelping stuff doesn't work. You need to redirect them to a toy, literally shove it in their mouth if needed and they'll chew that instead. Do it enough and they'll eventually go for the toy first rather than hands

Works for my wife not for me.

Sigh. Was concerned it would be this.

Yelping definitely worked with Ada. She's very sensitive to other dogs doing it if she's playing with them too. Which is just as well as she's pretty rough when playing.

How old is he?

What a beauty!

This nipping chat has just reminded me that Crumpet went through a phase of gently biting mine and my partner's bums when she got overexcited. I'm glad she got over it but it was pretty funny.

Could be worse, one of ours likes to stick his nose right up your bum if he gets a chance. Pervert.

This one is probably closing in on 9 now, she's getting older but still not slowing down luckily.

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13 weeks. Doesn't do it to any of the rest of the family so really confused. None of the yelping or redirecting works.

Will have to live with it and hope he learns.

Mine was, and to some extent still is, like that. He seems to think I'm the one for rougher play than he does with the kids or the other half. He now knows that if he gets too rough then I'll walk away, which seems to work.

I wouldn't worry at all at 13 weeks, as long as he's getting plenty of socialisation and exercise then I'd just try and enjoy it. They're not puppies for long. You're presumably his favourite person and that's why he's doing it to you. But so much stuff they do at that age will pass (and then you'll get new problems).

Say hello to Margot.

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Apart from her having fleas and a dicky tummy that kept me up at hourly intervals all night - it's going great so far! She's off to the vet for jabs and a chack-up today. She came from slightly unstable background so we expected that some immediate care was going to be required and i'm hoping the tummy will settle as we adjust the transition to her new food.

uh oh! cuteness overload.