Dog Owner Chat v2

[stricklyspagetti]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

ah sorry i keep spelling that wrong i feel so bad >.<
we got her from pendigrass flea market. and yeah shes a bit handful. i've been planning to take her to a dog park soon to run her around a bit more than she can in our middle sized yard. shes a bit aggressive when it comes to you popping her on the nose for biting at your face because whenever your sitting with her, she might nip at your face and my mom dosent want her doing that (neither do i) so we pop her on the nose but she gets aggressive.
and shes adorable!

[Cardinal]

... I'd probably get aggressive to it you hot me in the face...

[.muse.]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

ah sorry i keep spelling that wrong i feel so bad >.<
we got her from pendigrass flea market. and yeah shes a bit handful. i've been planning to take her to a dog park soon to run her around a bit more than she can in our middle sized yard. shes a bit aggressive when it comes to you popping her on the nose for biting at your face because whenever your sitting with her, she might nip at your face and my mom dosent want her doing that (neither do i) so we pop her on the nose but she gets aggressive.
and shes adorable!

Age old saying fighting fire with fire feels appropriate here...
Try redirection when she gets nippy.
Link got super mouthy with his teething, and would just randomly start gnawing your hand if his head was near your hand when he was laying on the couch. So we started keeping a toy within reach of both couches, whenever he would start to gnaw a hand or nip a hip (usually mine since he likes to lay with his head slammed up against my thigh while I'm on the comp), we'd just shove a toy in his mouth and let him take it out on that.
Massive improvement in just a week of that. I've not been hip nipped like two months now. And my hand only gets gnawed when I'm using my mouse and he's trying to hand me a toy to throw for him. But it's not painful gnawing, more of a quick mouthful of drool on my mouse hand since he doesn't close his mouth down on hands anymore, he just sticks his open mouth on them, >.<

[Joe Kerr]

@stricktlyspagetti
*Shepherd
She's gorgeous! At 5 months old,
she must be SUCH a handful, I
don't envy you xD I have a Rhodi mix
that was the absolute worst at 5 - 10
months old. Where'd you get Ruby?

That face is just too precious! I dunno why but dogs with eyebrows and the widow's peak are super cute to me. How big is s/he? We have a Rhodi mix puppy in our daycare who grew like a little weed and had to be moved out of small dogs into big dogs since she had too much energy and legs she didn't know how to handle.

She's absolutely humungous.
She's 70lbs now, and a
little taller than my knee
at her back. {I'm 5'4}
Ohmygosh the legs. She
looks like a sausage on
stilts, her legs are so freaking
long! I love her a lot though,
she's a fantastic dog <3

Edit; got her weight a bit off.
She's 63 lbs xD

[Transkitty]

My dogs used to be super nippy when they got excited, and redirecting to toys didn't seem to help. In kind of a last ditch effort thing, the next time Jake nipped me, I yelped. He stopped moving and stared at me before licking where he had nipped. I started doing that every time he nipped me, and the nipping stopped fairly quickly.

[Joe Kerr]

I so wish yelping worked with Lola.
I yelped and she immediately
full on attacked my hand to
get me to make the noise
again >.> I finally had to
get up abruptly and leave
the room every time she
nipped me, nothing else
worked!

[orpheus.]

I so wish yelping worked with Lola.
I yelped and she immediately
full on attacked my hand to
get me to make the noise
again >.> I finally had to
get up abruptly and leave
the room every time she
nipped me, nothing else
worked!

Lyra was the same, she was a nightmare teether and nothing worked.
I used to get frustrated with it but she's settled down now and if you tell her 'stop biting' she starts licking instead.

[MacGyver]

Ohana is a terrible biter too right now. XD Ah the joys of puppyhood. And when he latches on, he doesn't let go. And h chews on you like you're one of his toys. But redirecting him to his actual toys is helping. c:

Ohana is so cute! So are your other goofy pups! Love love love Dixie! We need more pictures of her!

Are you suuure?

[stricklyspagetti]

yeah hopefully ruby will learn. i havent tried redirecting or yelping i might try that c: but if im just sitting on the couch she will get all on top of me and gnaw at my hands. but she clamps down a little to hard and leaves marks on me, but not enough to draw blood. but then again shes really young so.

[.muse.]

Our trainer we do our classes through suggested the shouting bloody murder like Link just bit your entire hand off thing as a last resort. Luckily we didn't have to do that. The first time Link hip nipped me I screamed in shock, it didn't really hurt, it just scared the crap out of me because I wasn't paying attention, he looked like he was asleep.
His reaction though, oh my goodness I felt so bad for screaming. He sat up and put his back against the back of the couch, like how a person would normally sit on a couch but with his feet tucked up, and stared at me in shock. It took him a good ten or so minutes before he crawled back over and started licking my shirt where he nipped before.
After that it was all redirection work. Shove a squeaky toy in his mouth and he just rolls over and lays there on his back squeaking away.
All the redirection work has gotten us to the point where he'll be laying on the couch, fold over on himself to get his head closer to you like he's going to nip, and then flop off the couch for a toy. It's actually really freaking cute.