Dog Training Biting – Inhibit them from biting.
Puppies, don’t we all love them! You know what? they love biting!
Biting to a small puppy is a natural instinct and an automatic reflex. Human babies hold on to things with their little hands, puppies hold on to things with their mouth. Mouthing is a reflex by which they try and grab and hold onto something.
While they are puppies this mouthing and biting can be harmless, but as they grow if they do not learn how to control this natural reflex of ‘biting’ then they would b be very dangerous and destructive as adult dogs.
Every dog training manual or program has a section ‘dog training biting‘ because ‘biting’ is something we have to teach our pet dogs to control.
Puppies as long as they are with their mother, along with their litter mates and as they socialize with their own dog social packs, learn how to control this biting instinct and keep it at a level, which under normal circumstances, would be of no concern to anyone. But, we have a pet dog that was taken away from his mother when he was a few weeks old, and did not have the chance to learn anything.
This dog will retain and use all its natural instincts until he or she is taught otherwise. Biting is one of those instincts, which a dog has to be taught how to control.
With proper dog training biting skills it is very easy to teach a puppy how to control the use of its mouth and teeth when dealing with humans in all situations. This aspect of dog training biting is called ‘biting inhibition’ and should be on the priority list of every pet owner when he brings a new puppy home to be added to his family.
