Dog Bites: Landshark Puppy

Does your puppy run through the house scooping up everything it can fit into its mouth? Caninestein's Stephanie Colman shows you how to stop the landshark.



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Why Is Rover Chewing Up The House. Tips To Make Him Stop

A dog's normal behavior is chewing. Obviously, you can't allow this behavior. It is not acceptable to permit your dog to chew clothing, furniture, stuffed toys, shoes, or even the remote control. Dogs can even chew a hole in a house large enough for it to escape; an occurrence that once happened with the dog of a friend of mine. A computer mouse and numerous remote controls were also victims of chewing by the same dog. That crazy little guy.

Understanding why dogs chew is the first step. During the teething stage, puppies will often want to chew. A dog will put anything in its mouth to make the pain disappear, similar to what babies do during their teething stage. When dogs age into adults, their chewing habits are usually attributed to boredom or separation anxiety. Some dogs chew as part of their play ritual, and others chew just because the item tastes particularly good. Regardless, chewing behaviors from adult dogs are an undesirable trait.

Here is a list of some of the more destructive habits of dogs.

• Teething
• Mouthing
• Boredom
• Fear
• Play
• Attention Seeking
• Just tastes Good

All puppies go through the teething stage. For human children, there are topical gels available that parents can rub on the gums to alleviate pain and discomfort. This same type of topical gel has been used on puppies by a number of veterinarians. Teething is a natural stage of puppy development, and there are many products to assist the puppy during this time. There are manufacturers of hard rubber and plastic toys that are designed for puppies that are teething. A few at-home remedies for teething pups are as follows. Give your puppy ice cubes to chew on, or tie a damp wash cloth into a knot and freeze it. Give it to the puppy to chew on when he seems to be experiencing teething pain. Often. the frozen washcloth technique only works for small breed puppies. One idea, that avoids confusion as to what is his and what is yours, is to give a frozen bagel to the teething dog. This gives the dog something to gnaw on to aid the teething process, and is also a treat to encourage him to chew on it. I purchase the bags of smaller bagels. It is a very effective way to conquer teething problems.

Mouthing: It is the norm for little puppies (as young as 8 weeks old) to have really sharp baby teeth. These young dogs tend to bite during times of play and excitement. You know, those little teeth are sharp! The mouthing behavior needs to be discouraged. This is the style in which young dogs speak with each other. Some pet owners like to play rough with their puppies, and they often return with a small bite mark as a result. Do not encourage this type of behavior, but rather, teach your dog that it is unacceptable.

Boredom: If you are absent from your dog for extended period of time, it will become bored and look elsewhere for something to do. One way the dog can pass the time is by finding something to chew. Getting your dog more exercise will be beneficial for them, and you for that matter. Although walking some dogs relaxes them and tires them out, other dogs can be energized by the experience. If the latter is the case, a good solution is to take some down time with your dog immediately after a walk. This will create a strong bond between you and your dog, and strengthen your relationship. Once again, using frozen pizza dough or frozen bagels makes for a good chew toy for a puppy. If he is pooped after his walk, this doesn't give him much chew time.

Fear - Sometimes, when frightened, dogs may chew on items. Loud noises, like during thunderstorms, can frighten some dogs. Dogs also become agitated by the presence of other dogs, and if another dog walks past the window, your dog may start barking, chewing the window frames, and so on. These types of actions are a result of defensive behaviors. The "down stay" command, as covered in earlier dog articles, is one of the most effective techniques when dealing with these types of behaviors. If the dog is acting in a negative manner, put a positive spin on the situation before attempting to teach this command. Give the "down stay" command to the dog after first removing him from the window. Find a way to relax the dog as you sit with him. This allows the dog to achieve a calm state of mind.

Play- Additional training will usually end any biting or chewing that happens while your dog is playing. Energy levels vary between individual dogs, and as such, some dogs have higher amounts of energy than others. I have an 11 year old, tall skinny hound mix, that acts like he is a puppy. Running and jumping if he thinks he is going for a walk. It is so hilarious, nobody believes he is 11. This type of dog requires a significant amount of exercise to supplement the recommended training. Introduction of structured activities, such as jumping or fetch, will help the dog get necessary exercise during play time. During play time and exercises, practice many "down stays" in as many locations as possible.

Attention Seekers - Some dogs desire more attention from their owners than they are receiving, and strive to gain that attention through a behavior they know works. Common attention seeking behaviors include barking, chewing, spinning, stealing, and limping. As the dog is attempting to receive any sort of attention by chewing, negative reinforcement by the owner will not cause this behavior to stop. If no attention is brought to the poor behavior, it will often times go away on it's own.

Just Tastes Good - As common sense dictates, if an item tastes good to a dog, that dog is more likely to want to chew it. Items that are at risk of being chewed are ones that are palatable to a dog. This means that some items have a pleasant taste or texture to the dog. Examples of these items include stuffed animals, shoes, and most furniture. If your puppy is going through the inevitable chewing stage, it is wise not to leave these things laying around.

Usually puppies chew, but eventually grow out of it. Chewing as an adult dog is usually caused by one of the above issues. Usually if your dog is healthy, have space of their own to roam, and exercise often chewing won't be a problem. If it does become a problem, try the frozen bagels.

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Tips On Training Your New Puppy

Few times are more exciting for a family than getting a new puppy. Every member of the family wants to hold and play with the puppy. This is a fun time for everyone, but also a time when you really have to lay the foundation for socializing and training your new puppy if you do not want problems later on. Correct training and socialization is much easier than correcting behavioral problems such as aggression later on.

The time between 2 and 12 weeks of age is a crucial period for a puppy. At this age puppies are extremely impressionable and learning at a fast clip. This is when your puppy learns to trust or fear other people, other dogs and other animals. Allow your new puppy to feel safe and secure in its new environment. This can be accomplished with a lot of holding, stroking and petting at first to establish your bond as a senior leader of the pack who will care for and protect the puppy.

Once the puppy feels safe in its environment, it is important that you expose it to as many social situations as you can safely. On the other hand, this is also a time to begin laying your foundation as the pack leader for your dog. A well disciplined puppy will always feel safer and be less prone to problems than a puppy which has developed bad habits running wild around the home.

This does not mean that you have to spank your puppy or yell at it. In fact, you should never hit your dog, under any circumstance. It's been proven that positive reinforcement training is the most effective way to raise your puppy into a well adjusted dog, free of serious behavioral problems. Your tone of voice and body language will most often be more than enough to convey your message to your puppy. Now is the time to set boundaries such as not climbing on the furniture or chewing your shoes. There is no need to yell. A firm sharp exclamation of "Stop" along with positive reinforcement when the puppy complies will do the trick much better than physical abuse or violence.

Chewing will most likely be a problem right off the bat with any puppy. Puppies need to chew and if you do not provide them with something acceptable to chew on then they will find their own chew toy. Most likely it will be one you would rather they not chew on. If you catch your puppy chewing on an inappropriate item, just firmly tell them "no" and replace the object with something acceptable to chew on. Your puppy will be teething and their instinct to chew needs to be directed toward appropriate targets.

A new puppy owner must also understand that training a puppy is going to require an investment of time, attention and patience. Constant repetition and consistency will pay off in the future with a well behaved, happy dog.

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My Dog is Chewing Me Out of House and Home

Is your puppy chewing everything he or she can get their month on? Or do you have an older dog that is chewing everything in sight? This is common in dogs and is part of their nature to chew. Before you kill the dog (just kidding) or beat the dog (again just kidding), let's look at why do puppies or older dogs chew on things in the first place.

The Puppy

A puppy normally chews, especially on hard things, because they are teething. Just like any other baby it feels good on their gums and helps the new teeth to break through the gums. Now this is not to say that you are to let them chew on the furniture, your favorite pair of shoes or just anything. You have let them know that they cannot chew on your things. So give them things that they can chew. Like a hard rubber toys or the nylon chew bones.

I have found that a frozen treat works well. It not only gives them something to chew, it also feels good to their gums too. Here something that my dogs really love and some of them are 10 years old too, you know those trays that you make popsicles in try taking some of your dry puppy food and put it some water and then put the mix in to the Popsicle trays and place the trays in the freezer until they are frozen. My dogs prefer that dry food is still hard and not amalgamated (mixed in the water). It gives the puppy-sicle some flavor and they like chewing on the hard frozen dog food. You can use canned puppy food too. This will give him or her hours of chewing fun.

The Older Dog

Remember that it is in a dog's nature to chew and there three general reasons that a dog will chew on things:

1. It's fun, it passes the time, and it's a self-rewarding, self-reinforcing activity (for example, if he or she is chewing on something that tastes good.)

2. Chewing provides a nervous, bored, or lonely dog with an outlet for his or her emotions. To an anxious dog, the repetitive act of chewing is soothing - it's the dog's equivalent of comfort food.

3. Under exercised dogs often use chewing as a way of burning up nervous energy and giving themselves something to do.

Solution

1.Dog proof your home. This means taking whatever you don't want to end up in their mouth, and making it unavailable.

2. Prevent the dog from learning the joys of illegal chewing. The more times they manage to get a mouth of a forbidden substance the more readily they will target those items in future.

3. Don't set them up for failure by blurring the boundaries between their stuff) and your stuff. Do not offer your dog cast-off clothes, shoes, or towels to chew and play with: realistically, you cannot possibly expect them to be able to tell the difference between your current shoes and the one they have in their mouth that you gave them five minutes ago.

4. Give them lots of tasty alternatives to your stuff. If their environment is relatively barren of attractive, appropriate chewing objects, you cannot blame them for targeting your possessions. Remember, most dogs need to chew; if the dog is an adolescent (under three years) or a puppy (under one year), their needs will be even more pronounced.

5. Be more active with your dog. Remember dogs get bored just like we do, so you have to spend some time playing with too.

6. When you catch them chewing something that they shouldn't be chewing, DO NOT HIT THEM, make a loud noise. Like clap your hands or the thing I use is put some pennies in an empty soda can and rattle at them. It works for me. Then give something that they are allowed to chew on. There is a lot more that I could on this subject, but I am limited to space.

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How To Deal With The Chewing Puppy Syndrome

Puppies are so adorable, with their fuzzy little coat of fur, winsome eyes, natural curiosity, loving ways and playfulness. However, there is a caveat here. One of the down sides of this bundle of cuteness is that puppies absolutely love to chew.

But this cute little bundle come with an annoying syndrome that might pose a problem to you and other members of the family and that is the inherent habit of a puppy to chew and shred everything and anything that it could get its teeth on. When you puppy chews havoc on your favorite pair of expensive shoes or you kids most loved toy, it is time for you to put an end to his habit.

Before you embark on an anti-chewing puppy project, you should first understand the need and reason behind his obsessive habit. The main reason might be because he is teething and trying to relieve the pain by chewing on anything that takes his fancy.

Because of their high sense of smell they might want to have a go at the objects which has lingering scents of the family members or they might be trying to ascertain their position in the family. Or, he might be chewing with enthusiasm just because he does not have anything else of interest to do. Whatever the reason, if you do not put a stop to this bothersome behavior, your puppy will never outgrow his chewing syndrome.

You first step to take care of this problem is to visit a local pet store and purchase some pet toys like hard rubber balls, fake bones, strong knotted sisal ropes and squeak toys. Once you have this loot in front of him, all you have to do is make him realize that this treasure trove is his and everything else in the house is yours.

Keep a close watch on him and the second you see him going for one of the household items, admonish him firmly with a Bad Dog! or No! and lead him to a restricted area where he can stay alone with his toys for some time. This place can be his kennel or a cardboard box big enough to hold him, where he can have a go at his toys.

The only punishment you should administer to your chewing puppy is the disapproval in your voice, followed by leading him to his own toys in a restricted area. This can be as simple as a large cardboard box or as fancy as a dog crate. Let him have his own toys and chew to his heart's content. With this simple process, he will eventually learn what belongs to whom!

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5 Steps To Stop Your Puppy From Chewing

Does your puppy or dog chew? Chances are it does. In this article you will learn 5 tips I use to stop puppies chewing. You'll never have to worry about your favourite pair of running shoes again!

The first thing you need to do is to get your dog checked out by a vet. Sometimes puppies and dogs chew due to underlying medical reason's, we need to make sure that everything is ok with our dogs before proceeding with this training.

Chewing is one of the most important phases dogs go through, it shouldn't be banned totally, all you should be trying to achieve is to teach your dog what can and what can't be chewed. You also need to teach your dog about items that are dangerous to chew - such as power-cords etc.

The "No" command is the easiest thing you can use to teach your dog what can and can't be chewed on. Tell your dog "No" in a firm way anytime it starts to chew on something it shouldn't be. Then remove the item from the dog in a slow but authoritative manner. If your puppy resist, squirt water in its face and then take the object.

Don't rush up to get the object from your dog as it will think you are playing. Slowly walk to the dog and remove the object it's chewing. For objects that can't be moved, consider using a spray deterrent such as bitter apple spray.

The idea is not to destroy your dogs chewing aspirations. You should encourage it to chew on chew toys, bones and crunchy biscuits instead of your shoes.

Some puppies and dogs may resist when you try to teach them not to chew. If this is the case, be cautious as your dog may turn aggressive on you.

Use the tips mentioned above to train your dog what can and can't be chewed. In time and with a little persistence your dog will know exactly what she should and shouldn't be chewing.

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Chew Training

Hopefully the risk is small of a stranger poisoning your dog's food. However, it doesn't hurt to prevent such an occurrence by teaching your Yorkie dog to refuse food from strangers.

To train the Yorkie my mom gave to the dog his favorite food to sneak. She rewarded the dog with great praise and gentle coaxing. The Great Dane enjoyed the attention mom was giving him.

A rubber bone is useful, or a hard old dog biscuit, or even an old slipper if that is all you have in the moment. As soon or even before you notice the Yorkie puppy chewing on valuable household furniture, give the puppy plenty of safe items to chew on.

After my mother scolded mildly the Yorkie dog while training him to resist sneaking food at the dinner table, she opened his mouth and took the meat away. She then gave it back, with much praise. I consider that a well-trained dog should drop what it is eating immediately on command.

I think if you are likely to leave your dog a lot with strangers, it is best not to teach it to refuse food from other people. Sustaining the Yorkie dog's life in this case is more important than protecting them from strangers with an ill-will, as this is less likely.

My mom had a Great Dane that chewed everything, and she wasn't very happy about this fact. My mom did was she had to fetch a piece of meat and the dog promptly snatched some. Mom took it away, and just as the animal was going to seize it she said 'leave' in a thunderous tone. Surprisingly, this dog sat back, astonished, and mom offered it the meat again, and repeated 'leave!' in an ordinary tone; the dog did not attempt to touch it.

Another friend's Yorkie sneaks food that drops on the floor at dinner time. This Yorkie sometimes whimpers for scraps of the owner's meal. Avoid if at all possible feeding your Yorkie table scraps, as Yorkie's stomaches are sensitive. I would rather resist a dog's whining and begging for scraps than pay a hefty veteranarian bill!

Sometimes after a Yorkie's adult teeth surface around six months the Yorkie's baby teeth will still remain. In this case the Yorkie will appear to have two rows of teeth, like a shark! Well, not quite like a shark, but the teeth look rather interesting. Most Yorkie's' baby teeth will fall out while they eat. The teeth are so small that the entire process will go unnoticed, even by the Yorkie. Often the Yorkie's teeth will swallowed with the food! This is not harmful to your Yorkie.

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How To Stop Your Dog And Its Chewing Problems

These days you find that many dog owners are taking their dogs or puppies to a dog training school. In these dog training classes, many new things are learnt and many of the aspects are successfully overcome. Unfortunately, one of the aspects that do not go with the classes is chewing.

The reason why it is usually quite difficult to get over the chewing problem in dog training classes, is that the dogs usually do not find themselves anything to chew on or to destroy during the classes. So, if you belong to the group of dog owners who has been to the dog training classes, and are still looking for something to help you deal with the chewing problem, then please go on reading.

These types of dog trainings can be useful for dogs that are both young and old. Many people believe that this type of dog training is mostly meant for puppies. However, many a time it has been observed that older dogs might also need this type of training since they enjoy chewing away, when their owners are not around!

To begin with, you must first understand that all dogs tend to chew, since they need to chew. So firstly, you need to ensure that you have a number of things that are acceptable for your dog to chew on. Now by keeping all the chewing toys for your dog in one place, you may begin your dog training program.

This would help your dog recognize this area as his spot for chewing on the toys. Therefore doing this is absolutely essential for your dog training to work. You may even have a special "toy box" for keeping these toys for your dog.

During the training of your dog, you must never thrash or beat your dog if you find it chewing on something it is not supposed to. Instead, if you want your dog training to be a success, you should praise your dog for chewing on something that it is allowed to chew.

It has been observed that if you want a better response from your dog, then positive praise and positive dog training can be really helpful. So, if you see your dog chewing on things that it should not have been chewing on, then reprimand it verbally. The only punishment required fore these types of training is your tone of voice.

You can also do train your dog by putting a taste deterrent on those items that you do not want your dog to chew. This is known as "bitter apple" and is usually available at all pet stores. These dog training methods are most effective, and are sure to teach your dog not to chew on the things that you do not want it to chew on. As long as you follow the basic aspects, your dog training should be quite simple and easy.

You will find that dog training can actually be quite fun and satisfying, of course as long as your favorite's things are not chewed up! All you need to do is stay calm and not lose your patience, and you are sure to be successful.

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