Your dog will benefit greatly over the course of his life if your spend a significant amount of
time teaching him bite inhibition and then reinforcing proper behavior.
Not exact matches
If your dog was allowed to remain with mom and his littermates for an appropriate amount of
time (until at least 8 weeks of age), then mom should have
taught him the beginnings of
bite inhibition.
Prognosis is extremely poor since the dog routinely damages other dogs when fighting and it is
time - consuming, extremely difficult and potentially dangerous to try to
teach adult dogs
bite inhibition towards other dogs.
As with puppies, the most humane and effective way to
teach bite inhibition is a process that takes
time.
Attempting to
teach bite inhibition to an adolescent or adult dog is often extremely difficult, dangerous, and
time - consuming.
Since puppies want to spend all their
time play - fighting and play -
biting, they end up
teaching other puppies
bite -
inhibition.
When your puppy starts teething is a wonderful
time to
teach them
bite inhibition, commands like, «drop it!»