Does Your Dog Bite? How to Prevent Your Dog From Biting Someone

You should start teaching your dog not to bite even while your dog is a puppy. This is usually being taught by the puppy's mothers and siblings at fewer than four months old.

But nowadays we take our puppy home at a small age and so the training falls to us in full. In case you have the opportunity to be around a puppy social circle or puppy training school, you will notice that puppy has its mothers and siblings training carried on within their puppy world. It happens naturally, through trial and error what is expected and not tolerated around biting.

Help your dog to be more sociable around as many different sociable situations as possible, builds confidence, and you are less likely to have an aggressive or fearful dog that will bite in response to the new situation. Working on socialization has to start before the dog is four months old to get the best results out of it.

You need to also think ahead, if you need your dog to at peace with kids as you have family with children, then you should get your dog mixing with children on the early stage. This simple exercise will automatically build the dog's confidence, and you are less likely to have a biting problem around children later in the future.

Teach your dog to lie down close to you for 30 minutes; say on the evening while you are watching your favorite television show, your dog has to stay where you have told him for this length of time. If he get up calmly remind him to lay down and insure, he or she is lying back down then carry on with your nights viewing.

You should also build up trust and respect with your dog then you can take command from your dog allowing you to train your dog not to bite. Never physically reprimand your dog to stop biting, doing this just doesn't work, all it will result is the breakdown of the trust and respect. Screaming to your dog to stop biting will not work on its own.

Your dog needs to have good trust and respect for you for things to change and to cease from biting. Make sure you stop all biting or the problem will never cease. Make your dog to understand that you don't want the biting, not the dog it's self. Always make up after on your terms so your dog knows you cherish and love the pets. You have to sort out this problem as early in the dog's life as you can for the desired results.

These are simple ways of making sure your dog respects your command and prevent the dog from biting.