강아지 입질 멈추는 방법: 수전 개럿의 백업 플랜으로 실수 피하기 #234 #팟캐스트

can reason number four is they might be hungry so if I'm training a puppy who's super hungry and I have haven't given them a little meal first which by the way is a great thing to do before you train a young puppy especially first thing in the morning give them a little bit of a meal and then you could feed the rest of the meal in the training but a puppy that's very hungry will frustrate very very quickly and they are going to turn and nip more another thing that leads to biting is puppy is overly frustrated so it could be the way that the puppy is being raised or the way that the puppy is being trained there isn't enough Clarity in their life and so they get frustrated and when they get frustrated the only way they can express that frustration is sometimes they vocalize and then they nip sometimes they just like nip all right so you have to look at how you've set up your training plans how you've set up the arrangement with your puppy in your life is that puppy overly frustrated because that will lead to biting another thing that leads to biting is way too much confinement there's so many needs that puppies have at a very young age and if they aren't being fulfilled because we're leaving them in the crate for long long periods of time getting them a little exercise and put him back in the crate for long long periods of time you may get a puppy that is going to nip because they're confined too much because a lot of their other needs are not being met now some puppies very rarely but some puppies May nip because they're afraid now that isn't a common reason but it is a reason so you have to look at the puppy's body language and the only way that they know how to express themselves is to Lunge and nip so if that's the case you have to provide a more enriching and clarifying environment for that puppy so that they don't feel the need to nip they don't feel fearful in any situations I think a very common reason why most puppies bite is they want your attention and puppy biting does work even if it's just for you to scold them you turn and look at them or you swat at them that it gets attention so that's a reinforced behavior and so they're going to come back to that if you have a puppy that's over the age of 7 months and still biting that could be a big reason why is where is that biting being reinforced in their life you might not be meaning to reinforce it but it could be that it is being reinforced and that leads me to the next point and that is previously reinforced behaviors get reinforced so your puppy may be biting because somebody told you when the puppy bites you put a toy in their mouth or you put

a bone in their mouth now there is on previous episodes I have mentioned a sequence where there's a pause evaluate and then you might put an item for the puppy to chew in their mouth but there is a pause in there I see so many people creating a behavior chain of every time they get bit they put a toy in the puppy's mouth or they put a bone in their mouth and if that is the way they get these bones or toys then guess what reinforcement builds Behavior they're going to continue to nip to get what it is they want and sometimes you're flailing arms or Screaming or yelling or trying to lash at them that's reinforcing even though you may not mean for it to be it is another reason puppies also might bite because there's just no appropriate chew items in their environment so how many things like Kongs or wooden chews or gummy chews or maybe pizzles things that are appropriate for a puppy how many of those are in that puppy's environment and if they don't have those things they're going to be more likely to grab a pant leg or grab anything to have a good chew now a big big reason why puppies chew and this may be the number one but it definitely is a multiplier of almost all of them above is that they're puppies puppies investigate with their mouth especially when they're teething so between the ages of I don't know 4 and a half to six or seven months you may see puppies biting a lot more than they did previously personally for me I find my puppies bite the most between the ages of say 8 weeks and 12 to 14 weeks because after that it's really clear what is appropriate and not appropriate in my world and my puppies just sto biting me so I got to tell you I have had puppies who have never bit after the age of 10 weeks old and that's the goal I always work towards haven't got it with my 12-week old but we're heading in the right direction I can tell you that now hearing the list of why they bite I think you can come up with some of the biggest mistakes that people might make but there's four biggies that I see number one by far is people's expectations of puppies are just too high they are puppies everything goes in their mouth have you noticed that they pick up Stones they pick up flowers they pick up sticks they pick up everything everything they investigate with their mouth so yeah they're going to grab your hand your pant leg your sleeve they're going to grab things they are puppies so please lower your expect I'm not saying be okay with getting bit that is not what I'm saying I'm saying it's going to happen so don't lose your cool I think if you have this expectation that puppies may use their

mouth it's going to change the response that you're going to have if and when you do get bit number two I think it comes down to lack and limitations so these puppies are raised with not enough engagement not enough age appropriate exercise not enough appropriate chew things not enough relationship building from their people and as I mentioned in podcast episode number 232 where I talked about predatory sequins some puppies just need things to chew or shred I've had several of my puppies that love when I give the puppy bomb the toilet paper rolls with cookies inside they just shred them all up not all puppies like like tater salad for example he just crushes it gets the cookies out and leaves it but a lot of my puppies just love to shred those things so if we're not fulfilling the needs of the puppy they are going to head in a direction we might not want to see them head towards number three big big mistakes that people make is the inappropriate reinforcement for the biting when you get bit if you give that puppy attention if you swat at them all the things that I mentioned previously on why puppies bite it's a previously reinforced Behavior or it's turned into a behavior chain you bite I give you something good to take your attention I've seen people when they get bit throw cookies on the floor to distract the puppy well if you consistently do that you are reinforcing a behavior that might lead to the increased probability of that behavior happening and the number four big mistake that I see people make is they have the puppy off leash way too often so if you're in the backyard and the puppy's off leash and they get overe excited and they get the Zoomies they can fly by and nail you and they can take off and they can come back and nail you again so puppies are on leash in my world now do they get free time in my house where they're getting the Zoomies and running around yes they do but that is a scheduled part of our day and I'll share more of that schedule a little later in today's episode but you should be training your puppy on leash either a leash on the ground as you could see in some of my training videos it's not even in my hands it's just there or a leash in your hands depending on what you're doing so training on a leash helps you to mitigate the biting very very quickly and you'll see how now when I share the action steps which is coming up next the number one best way to stop puppy biting is to prevent it and I got to tell you that's an impossible chore I don't know that it's possible to raise a puppy and never have that puppy put their mouth on your body or a piece of clothing I don't

know that it's possible we sure can mitigate the number of times it happens that's number one number two we need to have a plan B of what do we do when we get bit or nipped or our clothing grabbed so prevention happens by engaging the brain engaging the body and developing and building that connection that relationship with the puppy and here's the great news while you are building the body and building the brain if you're doing it in the ways that I'm suggesting by playing effective intentional game with the puppy then building the brain building the body leads to building and deepening that connection and relationship so win win win so building the body that's things like playing restraint recalls or tug games or some puppy appropriate Fitness like work on a plane or even just the act of playing recaller games those are things that are fitnessyou had my puppy for 10 days and he has been on a walk twice because he's not really leash trained and so if we go for a walk which around the property we've done that twice he's going to pull or do things inappropriate he's not going to be as attracted to me as he is going to be to this big new environment that he gets to explore so I feel puppies up to 14 15 weeks old can get a lot of exercise in the training that you're doing with them so take them on a short walk maybe once they've had their third set vaccines maybe then but there really isn't any need if you're doing all of those other things engaging their brains doing things like recaller games or the games I mentioned in podcast episode number 18 where I talk about games that create bite inhibition in your puppy and all of the other great puppy training games that you'll find on my YouTube channel all of those things help develop the puppy's brains things like using food puzzles give the puppy an opportunity to use their nose use their body use their brain like those things scheduled into your puppy's day not the same thing every day like some days I'll give profet a puppy bombs some days I'll give him one puppy puzzle another day I'll give him a different puppy puzzle but every day involves training so those three things are a big part of prevention engaging the brain engaging the body focusing on things that help develop the connection the relationship you have with your puppy so your plan of action number one you've got to have a schedule so when will the puppy sleep and when will the puppy be trained AKA when will you be playing these games those training sessions I like to have as many as I can throughout the day a minimum of three and I might even get five in on the weekends and those training sessions they can be as

long as like 2 to three minutes maximum if I'm feeding his breakfast those sessions might be a little bit longer but you don't have to have hours and hours to train your puppy it's quality intentional training it's playing these games in a way where you practice your mechanics without the puppy so that they can be smooth mechanics with the puppy that is a huge part of the success in puppy training so you've scheduled your training your gated community set up in the middle of your living area so for me that's in my kitchen where the puppy has some toys some chew things that if somebody's in the house and somebody can hear what's going on then he can be loose in that game G Community now there may come a time where I have to put a lid on that gated community if he looks like he might be thinking of jumping out or climbing out but for the most part my puppies have not done that so I can get by with oaid on the Gated Community but there's time in the Gated Community there's time in a crate so if we're going out the puppy will be in his crate is somewhere in the house we have several crates around the house for him and also scheduled time out with the other dogs and with us for him to just run around he loves playing in my bedroom loves entertaining himself at night in my bedroom running around chasing himself growling at himself playing with his toys so that's the schedule how do you work all of that into your everyday life now I know you're all busy I'm busy too you may think yeah she's a dog trainer she can train her puppy all day that's not the case I still have a heavy workload and so I schedule the sessions of training in knowing what other appointments I have or what other commitments I have what other podcast I have to record during that day so scheduling is a big part of your action plan to mitigate the number of times that you get bit in a day number two and I've mentioned this on podcast episode number 17 where I talked about puppy biting is you need to record keep record keep both your dog training with the puppy and record keep Behavior incidences things like when you got bit what was the puppy doing what happened before what did you do after recordkeeping is a great way to improve behaviors because things that get tracked get improved action plan number three is intentional training games now on top of the ones I've already mentioned the recaller games the games that you can find for free on my YouTube channel I also want to encourage you to do a little bit of Cooperative care so the first things that I do with my puppies is I work on being able to cut their nails so they need to have a

relaxation protocol which podcast episode number 106 and 107 I talked about how I create that I want a way that I can get that puppy to relax we have a massage therapist that comes to the house once a week and so they learn how to relax to get massage but I intentionally work that in as part of my training plan another thing that I intentionally work in that I encourage you to do Works into your plan B that is what happens when you get bit now I don't want you to just play this game for a puppy that's getting bit I think this is a great thing for every puppy to experience and I call it like consent to console so we want to be able to hold our puppy now you might be listening to this with a 70 lb puppy and you're saying Susan I am not holding that puppy you will hold the puppy with all of their Four Paws on the ground I may hold my puppy right now up in my arms but we all still need to hold the puppy and so I suggest you all work on consent to console it looks like this you play the collar grab game I've mentioned this game on the podcast many times you can find it on podcast episode number 18 one the puppy knows a color grad game anytime you reach for the CER they're going to go oh yeah okay here it is so once you've got that now we're going to add to that so grab the collar and then put your arm over their shoulder and then feed them now we're going to introduce it's your choice with those two skills if you haven't played as your choice you'll find a link to the show notes that will show you exactly the step by step that I use how to play it your choice so I put a cookie out in front of my puppy I put my thumb through the loop of their collar and my hand over the chest so if they kep bouncing say they're frustrated because I'm holding them back and they bounce up to niit me in the face I've got their collar and I can just grab it and prevent any teeth coming near my face so I got the collar looped with my thumb I put my hand over and I just hold them they they are focusing at that cookie and then I just give them their search cue let them go you you are going to hold them a matter of milliseconds my friend and we're going to build up until we can hold them closer we can hold them longer before we let them go and let them have that cookie eventually you'll have that puppy staring at that cookie for maybe 10 or 20 seconds now you're going to do this without a cookie grab the collar hold just we're going back to a millisecond and then say cookie and feed them if you've got a little dog you might be picking them up at this stage why do we want to do this because there's going to come a time when a

veterinarian needs to restrain your puppy if you've done the conditioning just like the relaxation protocol you'll have a puppy that is completely confident completely okay with what's going on how does this work into your plan B for puppy biting because if your puppy has got your pant leg who's grabbed your sleeve you can grab the collar and just pull them in and hold them for a second if they are frustrated and they flail that tells you that you you either haven't conditioned this enough or you set the puppy up for failing because you didn't observe all the other things I mentioned in today's episode if they flail don't let go hold the puppy take a deep breath when they relax let go of the body hang on to the collar Pat the puppy if they turn to nip you again you can just hold them again if you've done all of the prevention I promise you it will be highly unlikely you will ever have to do the collar grab and hold something I rarely have to do but it's a great game to condition because all of our puppies are going to have to go to the veterinarian and who knows if and when they're going to have to be restrained it gives them an opportunity to learn something great for the future it gives you a plan B in case your puppy happens to nip you okay I'd love to get your feedback on this one if you've got a puppy let me know how it's going for you jump over to YouTube leave me a comment because hey we're Kindred Spirits we both have puppies right now I'll see you next time right here on sh by dog now he's in a hurry because apparently he hasn't hit the Subscribe button and he's got a lot further to go than you do go ahead and hit the Subscribe button now turning on that notification Bell so you'll never miss another video and if you're already a subscriber that's for you go ahead and grab your absolute best [Music] reinforcement hey a [Music]