Originally Posted by
Wwwoodchuck
This is a horrible phase.
Remember: God made them really cute so you do not kill them.
My last pup was horrible about biting. Lasted for over three weeks and nothing I did seemed to help, nothing. And I tried everything, several times. There were days I got home from work and sat in the car because I really did not want to go inside, let her out and have to deal with her. My arms and legs were covered with scabs, pants torn… It was horrible.
Finally one day, she just stopped. Like using a light switch, just stopped never to return.
For her, it turned out she just had too much ‘enthusiasm’, overactive. She required many hours of outside, run like a nut, destroy trees activity until she was over two years old. Her biting phase was when she turned from a nice, docile puppy into the overactive puppy stage.
I adjusted my schedule and needed to take her outside, every day, for hours. She needed to release all that extra energy. When she started puppy classes I had to take her to the lake for 2 ˝ hours minimum before class or she was just out of control. Even then she had ‘attention issues’ where she still wanted to just go-go-go! And could not sit for any length of time with other activities going on around her.
I remember letting her out of the enclosure and running to the door, going outside and just running, with her chasing me. I would run down the path, through the woods until I came to the creek and her favorite trees to destroy. I would keep pushing sticks into her mouth until she got the hint, then I let her run wild.
She turned out to be a great companion, it just took realizing her special needs for activity level.
I have no firm suggestion other than to say hang in there, it will stop, really it will. When it is over she will suddenly be ready to go through another growing lab stage, be ready.