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The answer given below is absolutely NOT the way to do it. If in doubt, ask a professional animal behaviorist.

What is totally WRONG with the answer below is that many people still do it. They think that giving a negative feedback provides a positive result. This is absolutely the wrong thing to do. If you want positive results, then give positive feedback.

The method explained below requires that dogs can think in terms of reward and punishment that is longer than three seconds. They cannot do that. So when you are punishing them, they have not a clue why you are being mean to them. If they may appear to you to be doing less of the behavior is because they are avoiding you or just doing nothing because they are afraid of punishment.

That is not training, that is abuse. All they learned is that they cannot trust you, so they do what they think you want them to do.

Well I squeeze my puppy's snout because his teeth will scratch his gums to

show him how hard he's biting and how it hurts us. We do it until he squeals to

make sure he really felt it and we're not just closing his mouth. This will only stop

biting for a bit but instead of the puppy biting until it's say 1 year old the pup

may stop at 8 months if you keep doing this.

Also: you might try to offer an old shoe or something else to chew on.

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13y ago

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