Basic Puppy Training » Mouthing and Nipping http://basicpuppytraining.net Online Dog Training Classes by Dove Creswell. Wed, 16 May 2012 08:29:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Mouthing and Nipping http://basicpuppytraining.net/mouthing-and-nipping http://basicpuppytraining.net/mouthing-and-nipping#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:31:00 +0000 Noel DCosta http://basicpuppytraining.net/mouthing-and-nipping is natural and invaluable, and we humans disrupt it by removing puppies from their litter and bring them into are homes to be raised as pets.

Even puppies that have learned bite inhibition from their siblings have to be reconditioned again when they enter a new home as humans do not have the tough hide that puppies have and their skin is much more easily damaged than dogs, so it’s necessary for us to teach the puppy that a bite with any pressure is not acceptable when dealing with humans and their property.

From this it can be seen how important it is to train a puppy on bite inhibition when it has not had the chance to be trained naturally.

Dog Training Biting, to be effective has to be imparted to the puppies before the close four to five months old.

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