Here Is A Good Tip To Help Control Biting Problems


by Lamount Jackson - Date: 2010-06-22 - Word Count: 405 Share This!

You panic and don't understand what to do due to the fact that you have just found out that your dog has a biting issue. He is a cute little loveable five pound dog, but not anymore he is your cute five pound monster that bites anything.

You do not understand what to do, but you realize you have to do something to stop him from biting before he bites someone or something other than you. Fortunately he is still young enough that he doesn't have the terrible biting habit ingrained inside him.

Dog biting is a frequent issue for a lot of people and this issue has to be addressed instantly before the dog bites a person other than you. One of the reasons that dogs will feel a need to bite is because they are stressed out or scared.

Another reason is that biting is a way that your dog is trying to establish his dominance and move up in the "pack" system. Now you understand you are going to be the leader of the pack no matter what, but he still wants to bite.

To handle this you are going to have to make sure that your dog knows that your boss. You can do this in a non-threatening way that will not hurt you or your dog. The way that may be used is the stare down.

A stare down is pretty much how it sounds; you stare at your dog when he is staring at you. The big thing is that you must hold your gaze and not look off before your dog looks off.

Once your dog loses the stare down he will try to challenge you every so often with more stare downs, but you will be able to win them more easily because he will start to learn that he is not going to win. The stare down can help establish your dominance over your dog and assist with stopping him from biting.

The stare down will not work with all dogs though, and you will need to get a dog that is biting to an obedience class to have the matter addressed further, but the stare down will give you a better starting point so that your dog will find out that you are the boss. Remember though that once your dog does stop biting and starts keeping up a good behavior you will want to reward that behavior as much as possible.


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